Also, I read quite some time back that installing Nodejs via the APT package manager on Wheezy was a bad idea. That is for the Wheezy official repo. Also something about npm not being included . . . which seems you already figured out.
I do know that compiling from source works fine, but does require a specific config option to to work right on the BBB ( if not used, it will compile / install i386 binaries . . . kind of silly.) I have notes somewhere when I did this myself. If interested. On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 2:27 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > *So it would appear.* >> *However, on my Debian install there is no such thing as "npm" and trying >> to install it fails:* > > > Perhaps not what you want to do . . . but if you install from source( > compile from source ), you get npm . . . then you can npm install > bonescript. However, no telling what that'd do to an existing cloud9 > install. It'd probably "hose" it. > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 10:14 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Tuesday, 28 July 2015 14:46:26 UTC+2, RobertCNelson wrote: >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 4:04 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > Debian and Ubuntu prerequisites: >> >> > >> >> > Credit to >> >> > >> >> > >> http://learn.adafruit.com/introduction-to-the-beaglebone-black-device-tree/compiling-an-overlay >> >> > >> >> > sudo apt-get install -y build-essential g++ python-setuptools >> >> > python2.7-dev >> >> > wget -c >> https://raw.github.com/RobertCNelson/tools/master/pkgs/dtc.sh >> >> > chmod +x dtc.sh >> >> > ./dtc.sh >> >> > >> >> >> >> Well the above doesn't install bonescript... >> >> >> >> npm install -g bonescript >> >> >> >> >> > So it would appear. >> > However, on my Debian install there is no such thing as "npm" and >> trying to >> > install it fails: >> > >> > >> > root@bbb:~# uname -a >> > Linux bbb 3.8.13-bone37 #1 SMP Thu Jan 23 00:56:41 UTC 2014 armv7l >> GNU/Linux >> > >> > root@bbb:~# npm >> > -bash: npm: command not found >> > >> > root@bbb:~# apt-get install npm >> > Reading package lists... Done >> > Building dependency tree >> > Reading state information... Done >> > E: Unable to locate package npm >> > root@bbb:~# >> >> npm is only available in jessie <-> sid... >> >> https://packages.debian.org/jessie/npm >> >> We backported it to wheezy for beagleboard.org, so either upgrade to >> jessie or feel free to use beagleboard's image. >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Robert Nelson >> https://rcn-ee.com/ >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
