install failure with status 255

[jzheng-stoneriver]

I tried to do npm -g install galileo-io in Intel Edison with expansion board. It failed with the following message:

npm ERR! galileo-io@0.8.15 postinstall: node scripts/postinstall
npm ERR! Exit status 255
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the galileo-io@0.8.15 postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the galileo-io package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! node scripts/postinstall
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls galileo-io
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! System Linux 3.10.17-poky-edison+
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/bin/npm" "-g" "install" "galileo-io@latest"
npm ERR! cwd /home/root
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.38
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.28
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCL

[ashishdatta]

Hi!

I am able to reproduce this error when I try to install on my board as well, but if I ran it without the -g meaning npm install galileo-io it worked fine, I was even able to install in /usr/lib/node_modules.

My wild guess is that there is something weird with installing globally and using the exec command from postinstall.js

So my suggestion is to either install it locally to your project or do these commands to get it globally:

cd /usr/lib/node_modules
npm install galileo-io

Test to make sure it worked:

cd ~/
root@saber:~# node
> var x = require('galileo-io')
undefined

[ashishdatta]

@jzheng-stoneriver did this resolve the issue?

[jzheng-stoneriver]

I could confirm the local installation worked. I am fine to use this as a workaround.

[ashishdatta]

@rwaldron any insight as to why when we invoke -g in npm install we get this error?