Node.js module version mismatch, installed with MacPorts

Question

On OSX, I need to use macports, because I run into issues with Brew. I uninstalled homebrew package manager and tried to get node to work:

I do a clean install of nodejs and npm

sudo port install nodejs npm

Let's just show that there is only npm installed, and no other modules.

$ ls /opt/local/lib/node_modules/ 
npm

Trying to get a node package working, testing with appdmg

sudo npm install -g appdmg

Now here's the cryptic error. (NOTE: It worked with brew's version of NPM, earlier this morning)

$ appdmg
module.js:460
  return process.dlopen(module, path._makeLong(filename));
                 ^

Error: Module version mismatch. Expected 46, got 47.
    at Error (native)
    at Object.Module._extensions..node (module.js:460:18)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:311:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:366:17)
    at require (module.js:385:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/appdmg/node_modules/macos-alias/lib/create.js:7:13)
    at Module._compile (module.js:435:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:442:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)

Jonathan Jonathan · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-20T21:08:18

I'm using 10.8.4 Mountain Lion. I tried with the latest version of node (5.1), and the older version (4.2) and got INVERSE results..

On 5.1, the message reads:

Error: Module version mismatch. Expected 47, got 46.

On 4.2.2 I got

Error: Module version mismatch. Expected 46, got 47.

Which lead me to believe there was some lingering brew version of node. So (after installing node via the node osx packager installation on the main website, not sure if that matters) I ran this uninstall script and it fixed it, thanks to @nicerobot via https://gist.github.com/nicerobot/2697848:

curl -ksO https://gist.githubusercontent.com/nicerobot/2697848/raw/uninstall-node.sh
chmod +x ./uninstall-node.sh
./uninstall-node.sh
rm uninstall-node.sh

Node.js module version mismatch, installed with MacPorts

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