Ubuntu package in ppa don't contain node-waf

[rwky]

The ubuntu packages at https://launchpad.net/~chris-lea/+archive/node.js-devel and https://launchpad.net/~chris-lea/+archive/node.js don't contain the node-waf binary when installing some modules via npm (i.e. npm install hiredis redis) they fail.

[ry]

report to them not us - we don't maintain that.

[bnoordhuis]

You'll have to file a launchpad bug, we don't maintain the PPA.

[ry]

cc @chrislea

[chrislea]

D'oh. I'll fix that tomorrow. My bad.

[chrislea]

Oh, actually, never mind. It's there, it's just in the -dev package. So just:

apt-get install nodejs-dev

and you should be good to go.

[theicfire]

I was having problems with installing now on ubuntu and nodejs-dev worked for me. Thanks.

[boutell]

Cc: @chrislea

Looks like this issue is back. nodejs is supposed to include the dev stuff now, but no dice. Here is my output, note it is looking at the proper repository.

Thanks!

root@staging:/etc/apt# apt-get install nodejs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libx11-data libxcb1 libxau6 libt1-5 libxdmcp6 libev3 libx11-6 libev-dev
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
nodejs
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 5,604 kB of archives.
After this operation, 19.4 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/chris-lea/node.js/ubuntu/ natty/main nodejs amd64 0.10.4-1chl1natty1 [5,604 kB]
Fetched 5,604 kB in 2s (2,117 kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package nodejs.
(Reading database ... 35765 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking nodejs (from .../nodejs_0.10.4-1chl1natty1_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up nodejs (0.10.4-1chl1~natty1) ...
root@staging:/etc/apt# node --version
v0.10.4
root@staging:/etc/apt# node-waf
-bash: node-waf: command not found

[chrislea]

I believe the node-waf tool went away in the 0.9.x series, so it's just not there in 0.10.x.

[boutell]

Yep. Sorry for the false alarm.

[boutell]

(I had an old version of something in a dependency)