[Solved] get a lot of ERR! during installation from npm

[Thomas Krickl]

hey friends

i try now for a couple of hours to install nodebb but i always get a lot of errors.
i got it running once but without setting admin password during setup so it was worthless.
i already now get to the point to be able to set a admin password but then setup stops with:
error: Cannot read property 'sockets' of undefined

during npm install i get a lot of this messages (most of them i could handle by manually installing packages):
npm ERR! Error: No compatible version found: npm@'^1.4.6'
npm ERR! Valid install targets:
npm ERR! ["1.1.25","1.2.32","1.3.2","1.3.4","1.2.20","1.2.21","1.2.22","1.2.23","1.2.24","1.2.25","1.2.27","1.2.28","1.2.30","1.2.31","1.3.0","1.3.1","1.2.19","1.1.70","1.1.71","1.3.5","1.3.6","1.3.7","1.3.8","1.3.9","1.3.10","1.3.11","1.3.12","1.3.13","1.3.14","1.3.15","1.3.16","1.3.17","1.3.18","1.3.20","1.3.21","1.3.22","1.3.23","1.3.24","1.3.25","1.3.26","1.4.0","1.4.1","1.4.2","1.4.3","1.4.4","1.4.5","1.4.6","1.4.7"]
npm ERR! at installTargetsError (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/cache.js:709:10)
npm ERR! at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/cache.js:631:10
npm ERR! at saved (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-registry-client/lib/get.js:138:7)
npm ERR! at Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this log at:
npm ERR! http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues
npm ERR! or email it to:
npm ERR! npm-@googlegroups.com

npm ERR! System Linux 3.8.0-35-generic
npm ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! cwd /var/www/nodebb
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.9
npm ERR! npm -v 1.2.24
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /var/www/nodebb/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

[psychobunny]

Funny enough I ran into that problem today when attempting to deploy on OpenShift. Basically means your npm is out of date, so run npm i -g npm (you may need to sudo). If you are trying to get it to run on OpenShift like I was, you're better off npm install'ing locally and then uploading the node_modules folder.

[Thomas Krickl]

@psychobunny said:

npm i -g npm

first - thanks for the quick replay
thanks just tryed it but it still gives me the same error during setup - error: Cannot read property 'sockets' of undefined

i'll run the whole installation again... coming back to you once that is done

cheers
ToM

[psychobunny]

first - thanks for the quick replay

Well you're just lucky that you caught me before bed Are you running edge? As far as I know the latest build is working, but maybe you'd want to pull 0.4.1 which is the latest stable version.

git clone --branch v0.4.1 https://github.com/designcreateplay/NodeBB.git

[Thomas Krickl]

Yo yo yo

You are the man - works

i've never worked with node.js before so i didn't know about the npm i -g npm update procedure.
after i did that, i cloned the latest build from github

npm install ran without any error

nodebb setup - without error

[SOLVED]

thank you very much again - now i can configure this beautiful virgin forum
cheers
ToM

PS: I'm going to sleep now as well...

[psychobunny]

Marked as solved. Goodnight

Marked as solved.

Edit: or not, looks like I'm going to have to look at the topic badges plugin @julian