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,
>>
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