Yes, I'm in Vagrant linux virtualbox.

The installation issue could be solved by 'npm install --no-bin-links'

ubuntu 14.0.1 x64
After I installed all required apt packages and git clone the nodebb repository and did a npm install under the nodebb folder,
I found several errors during the installation process. And ask me to read details logs
at nodebbs/npm-debug.log

These are the errors
13880 error Error: UNKNOWN, symlink '../rimraf/bin.js'
13881 error If you need help, you may report this log at:
13881 error http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues
13881 error or email it to:
13881 error [email protected]
13882 error System Linux 3.13.0-36-generic
13883 error command "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install"
13884 error cwd /var/www/html/nodebb
13885 error node -v v0.10.25
13886 error npm -v 1.3.10
13887 error path ../rimraf/bin.js
13888 error code UNKNOWN
13889 error errno -1
13890 verbose exit [ -1, true ]

I tried sudo npm install but no help

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