npm WARN: use of legacy binary "node"

[aveeshkumar]

Hello - awesome project - awesome work by you - awesome speech in Budapest. But when I install under ubuntu 14.04 64 bit, npm start gives me:

npm ERR! weird error 127
npm WARN This failure might be due to the use of legacy binary "node"

on ubuntu, node env var is nodejs but i cant seem to figure out what/how to edit

~/webtorrent/bin/cmd.js has the env var node at the top but changing that to nodejs just brings up Webtorrent help screen in terminal

Would love to make it work - Thx

[feross]

I just pushed a new version. Could you give that a try?

$ npm install webtorrent -g
$ webtorrent

[aveeshkumar]

Thx for the reply

I first try to uninstall sudo npm uninstall webtorrent and it geives:

npm WARN uninstall not installed in /home/aveesh/webtorrent/node_modules:

"webtorrent"

I then try npm install webtorrent -g

and after downloading it gave me a few errors so I tried it as suo

sudo npm install webtorrent -g

no errors

when i type in webtorrent

/usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory

I try npm start webtorrent (either in home doir or after cd webtorrent)

also npm_debug has

0 info it worked if it ends with ok 1 verbose cli [ '/usr/bin/nodejs',
'/usr/bin/npm', 'start', 'webtorrent' ] 2 info using npm@1.3.10 3 info
using node@v0.10.25 4 error Error: ENOENT, open
'/home/aveesh/node_modules/webtorrent/package.json' 5 error If you need
help, you may report this log at: 5 error <
http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues> 5 error or email it to: 5 error <
npm-@googlegroups.com> 6 error System Linux 3.13.0-24-generic 7 error
command "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "start" "webtorrent" 8 error cwd
/home/aveesh 9 error node -v v0.10.25 10 error npm -v 1.3.10 11 error path
/home/aveesh/node_modules/webtorrent/package.json 12 error code ENOENT 13
error errno 34 14 verbose exit [ 34, true ]

Sorry if I am bothering you - typing node gives this qhile nodejs gives me
a prompt
The program 'node' can be found in the following packages: * node *
nodejs-legacy

From the Desk of Aveesh Kumar

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Feross Aboukhadijeh <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

I just pushed a new version. Could you give that a try?

$ npm install webtorrent -g$ webtorrent

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[transitive-bullshit]

It seems you don't have a proper installation of node and/or npm.

I'd recommend reading up on a nodejs tutorial and making sure you're comfortable with the dependencies before delving into webtorrent.

You should then be able to run node --version and npm --version to verify they're both installed correctly. Only then should you try installing webtorrent with npm install -g webtorrent

[feross]

I think the issue is that you used apt-get on Ubuntu 13.10+ to install node and that installs a nodejs command -- not a node command. This causes the webtorrent command (and most other node command line programs!) to break because we're using #!/usr/bin/env node at the top of the file to start node.

The quickest way to solve the problem seems to be to run sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy which just installs a node command.

See: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager#ubuntu-mint-elementary-os for more info.

[feross]

I'm closing this for now since this isn't really a webtorrent issue. But feel free to reply if this doesn't solve your problem and we'll try to help.