Node.js cannot find module 'readable-stream' - node.js

Question

I am new to node.js and stuck on the following. Any help will be appreciated:
I am running node.js (0.10.28) on ubuntu (12.10). The code I am working on is:
"use strict";
var mysql = require('node-mysql'),
connection = mysql.createConnection({
host: "127.0.0.1",
user: "user",
password: "password",
database: "dbname"
});
if(connection) {
console.log("Query");
connection.query("select * from client",function(err,res) {
if(err)console.log(err);
console.log(res);
});
}
I get the following error
Error: Cannot find module 'readable-stream'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at Object.<anonymous> (/root/RonakNodeEmail/node_modules/node-mysql/lib/protocol/sequences/Query.js:7:20)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)

Answer 1

I got this error for the a long while. Stupidly I hadn't installed gulp... In short this problem occurs when a package is missing.
npm install gulp -g
I would suggest working out which task you are running and then install that.

Answer 2

In my case, (windows)
after uninstalling nodejs, and before reinstalling it
I had to delete the folder:
C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm
and after reinstalling node it worked like a sharm

Answer 3

There were many reason for this issue: I have faced this issue because I had older version of node.js related files.
Un-install the node.js
Go to your user folder like C:\Users\<uname> and find all the node.js related files and delete everything.
Install node.js freshly
It worked for me.

Answer 4

I was having this problem building a vue library. Deleting node_modules and re-running npm isntall and then rebuilding my lib worked.

Answer 5

After grepping I found:
$ cd /usr/lib/
$ ack-grep readable-stream
nodejs/sha/index.js
3:var Transform = require('stream').Transform || require('readable-stream').Transform
and change that line to:
var Transform = require('stream').Transform // || require('readable-stream').Transform
and error goes out!
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