Node.js: How to install NPM

3
votes

I have cygwin and node.exe (0.5.7) installed on my window XP.

When I git clone npm(1.0.30), cd npm, then "make install", there are lots of node_modules cloning.

But it stopped when execute "node cli.js install git+https://github.com/isaac/ronnjs.git".

The following is my npm-debug.log.

info it worked if it ends with ok

verbose cli [ 'E:\node\node.exe',
verbose cli 'e:\github\npm\cli.js',
verbose cli 'cache',
verbose cli 'clean' ]
info using [email protected]
info using [email protected]
verbose config file C:\Documents and Settings\zhangchiqing.npmrc
verbose config file E:\etc\npmrc
ERR! prefix directory not found
ERR! Error: ENOENT, �����ɹ����ɡ�
ERR! 'E:'
ERR! Report this entire log at:
ERR! http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues
ERR! or email it to:
ERR! [email protected]
ERR!
ERR! System Windows_NT 5.1.2600
ERR! command "E:\node\node.exe" "e:\github\npm\cli.js" "cache" "clean"
ERR! cwd E:\github\npm
ERR! node -v v0.5.7
ERR! npm -v 1.0.30
verbose exit [ 1, true ]

1
node.jscygwinnpm
Problems with npm should go on the github page. AFAIK, NPM isn't supported on 0.5.x, and especially not supported on Cygwin. Try something in the 0.4.x range. Also, have you tried Isaac's install script? It works wonders in Bash: curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh – beatgammit
Did you follow the step to create the link as described under installation? I do not see you mention that. "and link mongo_hacker.js to .mongorc.js in your home directory:" – zarry

1 Answers

7
votes

This works in Ubuntu. You have to use older version of node. 

sudo apt-get install -y g++ libssl-dev apache2-utils curl git-core
git clone git://github.com/joyent/node.git
cd node
git checkout v0.4.11
./configure
make
sudo make install
node -v
curl https://npmjs.org/install.sh | sudo sh
npm -v