AUR cannot install boostnote on Manjaro 18

[abhishekbalam]

Current behavior

When trying to install Boostnote with AUR, I'm getting conflicting packages error for node. I am not sure if it is because of packages in my system or because of Boostnote pkgbuild. Please help in resolving this. Thanks.

Complete messages:

 yay -S boostnote
:: Checking for conflicts...
:: Checking for inner conflicts...
[Repo: 5]  c-ares-1.15.0-1  http-parser-2.8.1-1  electron-2.0.12-1  libuv-1.23.2-1  nodejs-11.1.0-1
[Repo Make: 4]  semver-5.6.0-1  node-gyp-3.8.0-1  npm-6.4.1-1  grunt-cli-1.3.2-1
[Aur: 1]  boostnote-0.11.11-1

==> Remove make dependencies after install? [y/N] y
  1 boostnote                                (Build Files Exist)
==> Packages to cleanBuild?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> n
:: PKGBUILD up to date, Skipping (1/1): boostnote
  1 boostnote                                (Build Files Exist)
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> Diffs to show?
==> n
:: Parsing SRCINFO (1/1): boostnote
[sudo] password for abhishek: 
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (9) c-ares-1.15.0-1  electron-2.0.12-1
             grunt-cli-1.3.2-1  http-parser-2.8.1-1
             libuv-1.23.2-1  node-gyp-3.8.0-1  nodejs-11.1.0-1
             npm-6.4.1-1  semver-5.6.0-1

Total Installed Size:  169.80 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(9/9) checking keys in keyring                     [########] 100%
(9/9) checking package integrity                   [########] 100%
(9/9) loading package files                        [########] 100%
(9/9) checking for file conflicts                  [########] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
nodejs: /usr/bin/node exists in filesystem (owned by node)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
Error installing repo packages

Expected behavior

Installation without errors :P

Steps to reproduce

1. yay -S boostnote

Environment

• Version : 0.11.11-1
• OS Version and name : Manjaro 18

[ZeroX-DG]

I don't use AUR so I can't help you with this 😢 Maybe someone else can help you with it.

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[MiloTodt]

This issue is caused by you having installed node through AUR and is an issue with the package manager. Your node install is in /usr/bin which requires elevated privileges on Arch/Manjaro. Many installers, such as n, install to this location as on most OSes it is not an issue. You need to have your Node install in ~/

Here is how to resolve it.

remove node

npm --global remove  npm

install nvm and use it to install npm

yay -S nvm
echo 'source /usr/share/nvm/init-nvm.sh' >> ~/.bashrc
exec $SHELL
nvm ls-remote
nvm install 9

confirm installation

node -v #should be 9+
npm -v #should be 5+

install yarn globally and Boostnote

npm install -g yarn
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:~/.yarn/bin' >> ~/.bashrc
yay -S boostnote

This solution has been tested on a Manjaro 18 virtual machine.

There will not be anything that can be done to correct this issue from this end as it is an issue with the package manager.

[abhishekbalam]

Thanks for the solution, it works. I have just successfully installed the application. 👍

[MiloTodt]

Happy to help, thank you for confirming this solved your problem!

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