Trouble installing Espruino NPM command-line module on Linux

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Posted at 2018-11-23 by aj

I purchased an Espruino WiFi board, and am trying to install the NPM Espruino command-line module on Linux Mint 19.

I am having trouble installing the package, and believe it is Linux related. It appears to be having an issue installing one of the dependencies (serialport).

I have attached the output log for your review.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

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Attachments:

• npmInstallIssue

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Posted at 2018-11-23 by @gfwilliams

Hi,

I've never seen that before at all - it looks like you've got some kind of 'security audit' installed as well as NPM?

I don't see any actual errors from NPM, just the security audit.

Is it possible there were other errors, and you just included the wrong log file?

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Posted at 2018-11-23 by KevinAst

Hi Gordon,

I am helping AJ on this issue, and you are correct that he attached the wrong log file. He sent you the output of an "npm audit". I have attached the output of the npm install command.

Thanks for your help.

Kevin

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Attachments:

• npmInstallIssue.log

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Posted at 2018-11-24 by aj

Hello @gfwilliams,

Here is my current attempt in installing the latest Espruino "0.1.20".

Thank you for any guidance,
AJ

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Attachments:

• npmInstallOutput

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Posted at 2018-11-25 by aj

It looks like the root of the problem stems from a missing file or directory "ENOENT".

Thank you for your time,
AJ

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Attachments:

• enoentMissing

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Posted at 2018-11-25 by Wilberforce

The error says that this is missing:

/home/aj/Espruino/getHub/package.json

Do you have a package.json in the getHub folder?

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Posted at 2018-11-26 by aj

@wilberforce,

Thank you for noticing. I had needed to move down one more directory, but I am still getting a long error output when trying to npm install in the correct directory. Attached is the output.

Thank you,
AJ

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Attachments:

• npmInstallOutput2018_11_25

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Posted at 2018-11-26 by opichals

It looks like node v10 issue - see espruino/EspruinoTools#86

@gfwilliams Hopefully it should be possible to use newer versions of serialport?

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Posted at 2018-11-26 by @gfwilliams

Thanks - given all the posts asking about it I imagine it's the Node 10 issue. Are you on Node 10?

I just installed Node 10 and unfortunately it seems that I can't find any version of serialport that will install. Let's discuss it on that GitHub issue.

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Posted at 2018-11-27 by aj

This is in fact an issue with Node v10. Installing Node v8 resolved my issue.

Thank you to everyone that gave this attention,
AJ