npm install -g doctoc-> "No compatible version found"

[TomRoche]

I'd like to generate TOCs for my github wiki pages, but am new to node.js. I'm running

$ lsb_release -ds
Linux Mint Debian Edition
$ cat /etc/debian_version
wheezy/sid
$ uname -rv
3.2.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Jun 28 09:07:26 UTC 2012
$ node --version
v0.5.11-pre
$ npm --version
1.0.106

I did

$ npm install -g doctoc
...

npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/me/bin/node/npm-debug.log
npm not ok

I noticed npm-debug.log had

verbose mkdir (expected) error ENOENT, No such file or directory '/home/me/.npm/doctoc'
verbose mkdir done: /home/me/.npm/doctoc 755

so I did

$ mkdir -p ~/.npm/doctoc
$ npm install -g doctoc

I no longer get the error above, but still get

$ cat /home/me/bin/node/npm-debug.log

info it worked if it ends with ok
verbose cli [ 'node', '/usr/local/bin/npm', 'install', '-g', 'doctoc' ]
info using npm@1.0.106
info using node@v0.5.11-pre
verbose config file /home/me/.npmrc
verbose config file /usr/local/etc/npmrc
verbose config file /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/npmrc
verbose into /usr/local/lib [ 'doctoc' ]
verbose cache add doctoc
verbose cache add [ 'doctoc', null ]
silly cache add: name, spec, args [ undefined, 'doctoc', [ 'doctoc', null ] ]
verbose parsed url { pathname: 'doctoc', path: 'doctoc', href: 'doctoc' }
info addNamed [ 'doctoc', '' ]
verbose addNamed [ null, '' ]
verbose GET doctoc
verbose raw, before any munging doctoc
verbose url resolving [ 'https://registry.npmjs.org/', './doctoc' ]
verbose url resolved https://registry.npmjs.org/doctoc
verbose etag "6IIV956MII1N2VCN38UL5UC81"
silly get cb [ 304,
silly get cb { server: 'CouchDB/1.2.0 (Erlang OTP/R15B)',
silly get cb etag: '"6IIV956MII1N2VCN38UL5UC81"',
silly get cb date: 'Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:00:27 GMT',
silly get cb 'content-length': '0' } ]
verbose etag doctoc from cache
ERR! Error: No compatible version found: doctoc
ERR! No valid targets found.
ERR! Perhaps not compatible with your version of node?
ERR! at installTargetsError (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/cache.js:424:10)
ERR! at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/cache.js:406:17
ERR! at saved (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/get.js:136:7)
ERR! at Object.cb as oncomplete
ERR! Report this entire log at:
ERR! http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues
ERR! or email it to:
ERR! npm-@googlegroups.com
ERR!
ERR! System Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64
ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "doctoc"
ERR! cwd /home/me/bin/node
ERR! node -v v0.5.11-pre
ERR! npm -v 1.0.106
verbose exit [ 1, true ]

Is there another way to install doctoc? Do I need to update my version of node?

[thlorenz]

I made doctoc 0.0.3 support node 0.4 and greater.
Please give it a try now and make sure it actually works with that version of node.
I would appreciate if you let me know how that went so I can close this issue.

Otherwise I'd suggest to upgrade to node 0.8 (at this point very few people are still running anything below 0.6).

[TomRoche]

https://github.com/thlorenz/doctoc/issues/1#issuecomment-7680466
> I made doctoc 0.0.3 support node 0.4 and greater.

Thanks, that installs:

$ date ; sudo npm install -g doctoc
> Sun Aug 12 19:08:07 EDT 2012
> /usr/local/bin/doctoc -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/doctoc/doctoc.js
> doctoc@0.0.3 /usr/local/lib/node_modules/doctoc 
> └── underscore@1.3.3

Regarding

https://github.com/thlorenz/doctoc/issues/1#issuecomment-7680466
> I'd suggest to upgrade to node 0.8 
> (at this point very few people are still running anything below 0.6).

... how to do that? Note I installed using these directions, since I'm running debian and the only repo is for sid.

[thlorenz]

I'm closing this issue as things work for you now.
Look here to find more info on installing node 0.8 on linux.