@ron_jeremy said:
I'm not 100% sure.
I have "failed" to install NodeBB on a DigitalOcean Droplet about 25 times by now. Seriously, I'm not exaggerating. The people at DO must have wondered "wtf is this guy doing?" because I was creating and destroying Droplets non-stop for days.
I think what made the difference for me this time was not installing redis or nodejs as per the official NodeBB install document. Instead, I only installed the Chris Lea files.
I was so tired to trying different methods of installation I actually started keeping a log of what I was doing. I got it down to where only a few lines would change, and I am pretty sure this is what finally worked for me (remember, this is on a DO Droplet running Ubuntu 14.04 x64):
add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/redis-server
apt-get update
apt-get install redis-server
apt-get update
apt-get install git
apt-get install build-essential
apt-get install imagemagick
apt-get install python-software-properties
add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
mkdir nodebb
git clone git://github.com/designcreateplay/NodeBB.git nodebb
cd nodebb
npm install
node app --setup
- only modify first line where I enter my server's address http://your.server.ip.address (without the port) and hit 'Enter' for all other options
node app
- Now you can go to http://your.server.ip.address:4567 to see the forum
I have try this but when i go to npm install
i get this :
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
PD.
Got fixed with :
apt-get remove --purge nodejs npm
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_5.x | sudo -E bash -
apt-get install nodejs
