I've literally searched everything on web. But I could not find the solution for the error node-0.8.8 already installed, it's just not linked. Is it related to a path file issue?
Execute this list of commands in this particular order:
sudo brew uninstall node
brew update
brew upgrade
brew cleanup
brew install node
sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(brew --prefix)
brew link --overwrite node
brew postinstall node
After you've run brew upgrade to update node to the latest version, run brew doctor to see what potential problems there are. It might tell you that node is unlinked, in which case, running brew link node will link it. (You might need to first run brew unlink node)
I got the same error today and it told me that Node was not properly linked and there were unexpected header files as well.
When I tried to reinstall node, It told me that it was already installed, just not linked.
Warning: /usr/local/include isn't writable
/usr/local/bin/node already exists. Remove it
Solution
To fix this, I took ownership of it by using:
sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local/
Then I force linked all files by using:
brew link --overwrite node
After that I did the post install routine with:
brew postinstall node
Then I checked if node was properly installed with:
node -v
I received output v5.1.0 and It was fixed :). Hope this helps.
This may not be the perfect fix out there since I have started dabbling with node and homebrew just 10 minutes ago but it did the job for me.
Your old version of Node 0.5 was probably not installed with Homebrew (or Homebrew's script changed in the large gap between the 0.5 beta releases to the 0.8 stable releases (the 0.6 and 0.7 releases in-between).
Both Homebrew and the official Node installer try to install to /usr/local/bin so I'd recommend starting by simply deleting /usr/local/bin/node, /usr/local/bin/npm, and /usr/local/lib/node and try again.
hardcorepunk's answer worked. However, we can no longer chown /usr/local in High Sierra. So, execute the commands in this order:
sudo brew uninstall node
brew update
brew upgrade
brew cleanup
brew install node
sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(brew --prefix)/*
brew link --overwrite node
brew postinstall node
To link the node, run following command:
brew link homebrew/versions/node<version no>
And to check whether it is properly installed or not, run:
node -v
If node will get properly linked, it will not through any error, and will print node version. You can read nice explanation about it from here.
For line did the job:
brew link --overwrite node
It forces the link and overwrite all conflicting files:
You can change the permission of the file "/usr/local/bin/node", like "chmod +w /usr/local/bin/node", to make it writable.
Related
Not sure if related, but over the weekend I upgraded my OS to Big Sur version 11.1 and then when I began working one thing went wrong after another and now I can't use node or npm at all. I get the following message in zsh:
% node -v
zsh: killed node -v
And the following on bash
node -v
Killed: 9
I've tried to install different versions of node through n, which makes no difference.
How it got this way?
Prior to this issue (after my OS upgrade), I couldn't run npm install, and would get the following message:
Maximum call stack size exceeded
This seems to have been reported on this thread, but as of writing this there are no replies.
As the OP on that thread says, I tried installing npm v7, which initially did solve my problem with the npm install, however caused other issues on the project.
I then decided to use n to install the latest version of node and this caused the errors I have above.
Does anyone know what's going on and how to fix it?
Edit: I was forced to uninstall and reinstall node to be able to go back to work, which did solve it but I am leaving this thread up in case there is a better solution.
TLDR:
brew uninstall git
brew update
brew reinstall pcre2 gettext
brew install git
brew reinstall node
I'm sure there's a more surgical solution (e.g., maybe you don't need brew reinstall pcre2 gettext), but this ^^ worked for me. Below is the path I took:
Skimming some google results, seemed it was at least partly due to the new M1 silicon and the minor MacOS update to 11.2.2. Tried to brew update and got:
Error: Failure while executing; `git config --replace-all homebrew.analyticsmessage true` was terminated by uncaught signal KILL.
Which led me to this: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/10275#issuecomment-757351887. After doing these uninstall, reinstall, installs, I finished with a brew reinstall node and voilà! Didn't need to uninstall node and install from scratch:
an#As-Air ~ % node -v
v15.11.0
TL;DR
The solution is to reinstall node and all its dependencies. Luckily, Homebrew offers a one-liner all-in-one solution:
brew reinstall $(brew deps node) node
Why?
I had followed #albielin and #Mariusz' solutions without success. I didn't yet want the #bgh's nuclear option to reinstall Homebrew with all its packages.
It seems in my case, the issue wasn't coming from those specific dependencies (pcre2 gettext openssl icu4c), but rather another one. No need to worry about git. But do reinstall all dependencies to be sure and avoid an endless trial-and-error with every one of them.
Had the same issue. Tried #albielin approach but it still didn't work for me. Ive took a look in the console and saw issues with openssl and icu4c when executing node --version and reinstalled both. Now it works.
So in addition to #albielin commands I did:
brew reinstall openssl
brew reinstall icu4c
I had the same issue. The answers above didn't work for me. Looking at the console while running node --version I found the error load code signature error 2 for file "node"
Reinstalling Homebrew as detailed in this Stack Overflow answer did it for me:
Run the official uninstall script: /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/uninstall.sh)"
Clean up: sudo rm -rf /opt/homebrew
Fresh install: /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
Install node: brew install node
The node post-install process ran into a few issues due to symlinks that could not be overwritten. The advice given in this article helped me resolve this; a few sudo chown ... and brew link --overwrite node commands later node was successfully installed!
First of all, I run node in macOS terminal, and get
bash: /usr/local/bin/node: No such file or directory
I run brew install node and get
Warning: node 12.10.0 is already installed, it's just not linked You can use `brew link node` to link this version.
So I run brew link node and get
Error: Could not symlink include/node/common.gypi
/usr/local/include/node is not writable.
I suppose that's some permission issue. So I run it with sudo and get
Error: Running Homebrew as root is extremely dangerous and no longer supported.
As Homebrew does not drop privileges on installation you would be giving all
build scripts full access to your system.
Then I try brew uninstall node, and repeat all the above steps, and still get the same errors. What do I do?
Note: Never use sudo with brew. Running brew as root may change the owner of brew related files, and make it inaccessible by current user.
Answer for the question: you may have broken the permission of /usr/local/include/node directory already by using sudo. To fix this,
rm -rf /usr/local/include/node
brew unlink node
brew link node
If the above commands don't fix your problem. Try to fix all folder permission under /usr/local recursively. Then try the above fix again.
sudo chown -R $(whoami):admin /usr/local/*
I figured it out. Doing brew link --overwrite node worked.
I am using mac. I have currently installed Node.js 4.4.3
Aleeshas-MacBook-Air:~ aleesha$ node -v
v4.4.3
I want to update Node.js to it's latest version by following these steps.
First I tried to execute: brew update. However, I was getting the below error when I executed the command:
brew update Error: /usr/local is not writable. You should change the
ownership and permissions of /usr/local back to your user account:
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local
So after searching for solution on Google, I ran this command: sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local
After that I again executed the brew update command. I think it was successfully executed since I didn't see any error message. Last few lines on the command prompt were:
==> Migrating HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY (please wait)...
==> Migrated HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY to /usr/local/Homebrew! Homebrew no longer needs to have ownership of /usr/local.
If you wish you can
return /usr/local to its default ownership with: sudo chown
root:wheel /usr/local Aleeshas-MacBook-Air:~ aleesha$
However after this step when I execute the upgrade command, it failed.
Aleeshas-MacBook-Air:~ aleesha$ brew upgrade node
Error: node not installed
Aleeshas-MacBook-Air:~ aleesha$
I am not sure what exactly needs to be done here.
Thanks
EDIT: Executed brew doctor to check for system anomalies.
Aleeshas-MacBook-Air:~ aleesha$ brew doctor
Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers
with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is
working fine: please don't worry and just ignore them. Thanks!
Warning: "config" scripts exist outside your system or Homebrew directories.
`./configure` scripts often look for *-config scripts to determine if
software packages are installed, and what additional flags to use when
compiling and linking.
Having additional scripts in your path can confuse software installed via
Homebrew if the config script overrides a system or Homebrew provided
script of the same name. We found the following "config" scripts:
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/bin/python3-config
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/bin/python3.5-config
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/bin/python3.5m-config
Warning: No developer tools installed.
Install the Command Line Tools:
xcode-select --install
Warning: Python is installed at /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework
Homebrew only supports building against the System-provided Python or a
brewed Python. In particular, Pythons installed to /Library can interfere
with other software installs.
Warning: Unbrewed header files were found in /usr/local/include.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.
Unexpected header files:
/usr/local/include/node/android-ifaddrs.h
/usr/local/include/node/ares.h
/usr/local/include/node/ares_version.h
/usr/local/include/node/libplatform/libplatform.h
/usr/local/include/node/nameser.h
/usr/local/include/node/node.h
/usr/local/include/node/node_buffer.h
You didn't install Node using Homebrew, use this gist to uninstall your current installation of Node.
And then:
brew update && brew install node
It seems like you didn't install nodejs through brew. If you installed Node without brew, brew doesn't recognize it. I had the same issue until I realised that I installed Node with Node Version Manager. Make sure you installed it using Brew.
brew list
Will show you the things brew installed.
I installed node with brew 'brew install node', and I get a warning message
'Warning: The post-install step did not complete successfully'.
When I put in node -v, I can indeed see the current version of node, however when I try to find the current version of npm, I get this error.
-bash: /usr/local/bin/npm: No such file or directory
Is the reason that NPM does not exist because the post-install step did not complete successfully ?
Yup, that thing happened to me too. After a lot of searching I came to a solution. I think this would help you.
sudo brew uninstall node
brew update
brew upgrade
brew cleanup
brew install node
sudo chown -R myusername /usr/local
brew link --overwrite node
sudo brew postinstall node
Thanks!!
I am trying to upgrade my node via homebrew but ran into a problem because I think I tried to download through the website. I am very new to terminal. I've tried to search for answers but many people say you can just delete the unbrewed header files. I am not sure how to do that. but for some reason when I try to brew install node, it says the brew link step did not complete successfully.
I also tried to brew link node but that doesn't work either. I ran out of options so I came here.
[SICNARF#WOPR ~]$ brew install node
==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/node-0.12.7.yosemite.bottle.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/node-0.12.7.yosemite.bottle.tar.gz
==> Pouring node-0.12.7.yosemite.bottle.tar.gz
==> Caveats
Bash completion has been installed to:
/usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d
Error: The `brew link` step did not complete successfully
The formula built, but is not symlinked into /usr/local
Could not symlink include/node/android-ifaddrs.h
/usr/local/include/node is not writable.
You can try again using:
brew link node
Warning: The post-install step did not complete successfully
You can try again using `brew postinstall node`
==> Summary
🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/node/0.12.7: 2726 files, 31M
this is what happens when i brew doctor
[SICNARF#WOPR ~]$ brew doctor
Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers
with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is
working fine: please don't worry and just ignore them. Thanks!
Warning: Unbrewed header files were found in /usr/local/include.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.
Unexpected header files:
/usr/local/include/node/ares.h
/usr/local/include/node/ares_version.h
/usr/local/include/node/libplatform/libplatform.h
/usr/local/include/node/nameser.h
/usr/local/include/node/node.h
/usr/local/include/node/node_buffer.h
/usr/local/include/node/node_internals.h
/usr/local/include/node/node_object_wrap.h
/usr/local/include/node/node_version.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/aes.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/asn1.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/asn1_mac.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/asn1t.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/bio.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/blowfish.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/bn.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/buffer.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/camellia.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/cast.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/cmac.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/cms.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/comp.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/conf.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/conf_api.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/crypto.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/des.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/des_old.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/dh.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/dsa.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/dso.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/dtls1.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/e_os2.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/ebcdic.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/ec.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/ecdh.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/ecdsa.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/engine.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/err.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/evp.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/hmac.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/idea.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/krb5_asn.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/kssl.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/lhash.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/md4.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/md5.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/mdc2.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/modes.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/obj_mac.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/objects.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/ocsp.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/opensslconf.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/opensslv.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/ossl_typ.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/pem.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/pem2.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/pkcs12.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/pkcs7.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/pqueue.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/rand.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/rc2.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/rc4.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/ripemd.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/rsa.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/safestack.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/seed.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/sha.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/srp.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/srtp.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/ssl.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/ssl2.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/ssl23.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/ssl3.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/stack.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/symhacks.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/tls1.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/ts.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/txt_db.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/ui.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/ui_compat.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/whrlpool.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/x509.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/x509_vfy.h
/usr/local/include/node/openssl/x509v3.h
/usr/local/include/node/pthread-fixes.h
/usr/local/include/node/smalloc.h
/usr/local/include/node/stdint-msvc2008.h
/usr/local/include/node/tree.h
/usr/local/include/node/uv-aix.h
/usr/local/include/node/uv-bsd.h
/usr/local/include/node/uv-darwin.h
/usr/local/include/node/uv-errno.h
/usr/local/include/node/uv-linux.h
/usr/local/include/node/uv-sunos.h
/usr/local/include/node/uv-threadpool.h
/usr/local/include/node/uv-unix.h
/usr/local/include/node/uv-version.h
/usr/local/include/node/uv-win.h
/usr/local/include/node/uv.h
/usr/local/include/node/v8-debug.h
/usr/local/include/node/v8-platform.h
/usr/local/include/node/v8-profiler.h
/usr/local/include/node/v8-testing.h
/usr/local/include/node/v8-util.h
/usr/local/include/node/v8.h
/usr/local/include/node/v8config.h
/usr/local/include/node/v8stdint.h
/usr/local/include/node/zconf.h
/usr/local/include/node/zlib.h
Warning: You have unlinked kegs in your Cellar
Leaving kegs unlinked can lead to build-trouble and cause brews that depend on
those kegs to fail to run properly once built. Run `brew link` on these:
node
[SICNARF#WOPR ~]$ brew link
This command requires a keg argument
[SICNARF#WOPR ~]$ brew link node
Linking /usr/local/Cellar/node/0.12.7...
Error: Could not symlink include/node/android-ifaddrs.h
/usr/local/include/node is not writable.
There are two steps involved.
Simply run these four commands:
sudo chown -R `whoami`:admin /usr/local/include/node
sudo chown -R `whoami`:admin /usr/local/bin
sudo chown -R `whoami`:admin /usr/local/share
sudo chown -R `whoami`:admin /usr/local/lib/dtrace
Finally, run the overwrite command:
brew link --overwrite node
I ran into this same issue under the same circumstances. I was able to get the brew version to install successfully by:
Run brew install node
Make note of the module that is causing the issue and delete it. In your case, this would be /usr/local/include/node
Uninstall - brew uninstall node
Re-install - brew install node
I had to repeat this process a few times for each remaining problematic directory (about 3 different ones in actuality), and the install eventually succeeded without any issues.
I ran into this problem on a new MacBook Pro on Mac OS High Sierra. I gleaned brew was trying to use directories named include and lib under /usr/local that was not there. Since root owns /usr I had to do it manually - making sure that whoami owner matches peer directories in /usr/local:
sudo mkdir /usr/local/include
chown `whoami`:admin /usr/local/include
sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib
chown `whoami`:admin /usr/local/lib
And then to match the other directories in /usr/local I did:
chmod 775 /usr/local/include
chmod 775 /usr/local/lib
then the following worked:
brew uninstall node
brew install node
You need to make /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/share writable. I used this answer to achieve this. Below is the key advice in the answer replicated in case the link breaks:
sudo chown -R `whoami`:admin /usr/local/bin
sudo chown -R `whoami`:admin /usr/local/share
I had the same error:
Linking /usr/local/Cellar/node/11.10.0...
Error: Could not symlink include/node /usr/local/include is not writable.
Solution:
$ sudo mkdir /usr/local/include
$ sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(brew --prefix)/*
$ brew link node
Linking /usr/local/Cellar/node/11.10.0... 7 symlinks created
$ node -v => v11.10.0
$ npm -v => 6.7.0
brew postinstall node or brew link --overwrite node doesn't seem to help.
After several rounds of brew uninstall node and brew install node the following were the offending directories and files:
sudo rm -r /usr/local/include/node
sudo rm -r /usr/local/share/doc/node
sudo rm -r /usr/local/lib/node_modules
sudo rm /usr/local/lib/dtrace/node.d
sudo rm /usr/local/share/man/man1/node.1
sudo rm /usr/local/share/systemtap/tapset/node.stp
After the offending files are removed brew will do all the proper linking with permissions for you.
Likely permissions were set as root:wheel because of a past install with sudo or perhaps manual installation, etc.
For those running high sierra on MacOS:
I tried giving permissions using the chown command and uninstalling then reinstalling node via homebrew but nothing worked.
I just went to this site https://nodejs.org/en/download/ and downloaded the 64 bit macOS .pkg and it worked perfectly. I tested it by just entering the command node in terminal.
I had a very similar problem with linking. I couldn't get it to work. I tried to chmod /usr/local/include/node so I could write the link to it but ran into another error. As a final solution, I just reinstalled node from https://nodejs.org/download/
I have a working node prompt again! I would love to go through brew to update but it saved me a lot of hassle just using the pkg installer from the site. I know this may not be the solution you are looking for but I just wanted to share my experience with the same issue. I hope it helps!
brew link --overwrite node
Error: Could not symlink (...)
/usr/xxx
sudo chown -R 'whoami?':admin xxx
brew link --overwrite node
Rinse and repeat
For me I had to run brew doctor which showed me that I did not have write access and had to run sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/bin /usr/local/share /usr/local/share/man to fix the issue.
I suggest running brew doctor to see if it can provide some hints on the issue
remove the error folder or file manually and run this command brew uninstall node && brew install node
You have to do this process till all error folder and files are removed.
Then node will be linked.
If you try to brew link node and it says something along the lines:
Error: Could not symlink include/node/openssl/archs/aix-gcc/asm/include/openssl/opensslconf.h
Target /usr/local/include/node/openssl/archs/aix-gcc/asm/include/openssl/opensslconf.h
already exists. You may want to remove it:
Try this:
brew link --overwrite --dry-run node | xargs rm
brew link node