Informative: Ubuntu 14.04 installation

[MarkPfennig]

Some of the npm modules required by insight-api are not configured to support ubuntu 14.04 upon download. To resolve the issue and install cleanly take the following steps:

apt-get install nodejs npm nodejs-legacy
cd insight-api
npm install

If you have already tried and failed to get it working due to gyp issues, let's first clarify that Python 2.6 is not required, the default 2.7 will work fine.

To cleanly install insight-api when you have already taken some steps to try and get it set up, do the following:

apt-get install nodejs-legacy
cd insight-api
npm cache clear
rm -rf ./node_modules
git pull
npm install

This will remove all npm modules and reinstall them, after first providing legacy support to call node on the command line in addition to nodejs which the gyp module requires.

I hope that helps anybody experiencing issues setting up insight-api.

Thank you to BitPay for this wonderful application.

[maraoz]

Thanks for the contribution! Would you consider adding this to the README? It would be better there than as a github issue. If you need a guide for contributing, check: https://github.com/bitpay/bitcore/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

[braydonf]

This is outdated with the latest release of bitcore, bitcore-node and insight v0.3.0. However support with the nodejs package doesn't currently work since event the latest versions of Ubuntu include v0.10.25. If needed, we can resolve with: bitpay/bitcore-node#350

[braydonf]

You can also see the details on https://bitcore.io/guides/full-node for running with Ubuntu 14.04 with nvm.