angularjs - running protractor causes npm ERR! weird error 8

Question

I was trying to set up nodeJs for AngularJs on my operating System (Ubuntu 14.04) following this: guideline for installing angular js components but when tried running the last command, found this error. Can any one help.

usman@usman-cs:~/angular-phonecat$ npm run protractor

[email protected] preprotractor /home/usman/angular-phonecat npm run update-webdriver

[email protected] preupdate-webdriver /home/usman/angular-phonecat npm install

[email protected] postinstall /home/usman/angular-phonecat bower install

[email protected] update-webdriver /home/usman/angular-phonecat webdriver-manager update

selenium standalone is up to date. chromedriver is up to date.

[email protected] protractor /home/usman/angular-phonecat protractor test/protractor-conf.js

Starting selenium standalone server...
[launcher] Running 1 instances of WebDriver
[launcher] Process exited with error code 1

events.js:72
        throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
              ^
Error: spawn ENOENT
    at errnoException (child_process.js:988:11)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:779:34)
npm ERR! weird error 8
npm WARN This failure might be due to the use of legacy binary "node"
npm WARN For further explanations, please read
/usr/share/doc/nodejs/README.Debian

npm ERR! not ok code 0
usman@usman-cs:~/angular-phonecat$

ENOENT error is generally caused when something is not found. Error says you may have a legacy node binary and it could be possible that npm is looking for something thats not found. Check whether your installs are in order — nilesh
You might have the wrong "node" binary installed on your path. What does which node or where node say? (Or if you run node do you get a nodejs prompt or something else?) As the error says, read /usr/share/doc/nodejs/README.Debian — P.T.

Manuel Manuel · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-27T13:00:37

I think you should run npm install on the project directory. That should install all required dependencies. If that don't work, then there are missing dependencies in your package.json file. I you followed the tutorial there shouldn't be any problem.

angularjs - running protractor causes npm ERR! weird error 8

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