I'm trying to install node.js via Homebrew. Unfortunately, I get this error:
So then I try to link node manually...
No luck, so I try forcefully linking node...
I'm not familiar with dtrace in any regard and I'm afraid to mess with permissions, so I tried to sudo..
I've tried uninstalling node via brew uninstall node and retrying the install with no luck.
The homebrew package for node.js now includes npm again, so this happened to me when I missed the homebrew package's message about removing the standalone version first.
Assuming, like me, you've already broken node/npm by attempting the upgrade before knowing to npm uninstall npm -g first, you can rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm and then brew link node. This removes the standalone self-hosted npm package (rather than the one brew would like to install) and lets brew symlink its bundled one from Cellar.
I run Mac OS X Mavericks. I tried to install node 0.10.25 and the top answer did not work for me.
natevw says to rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm but if the permissions on /usr/local/lib/node_modules look like this:
drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 Feb 2 20:45 node_modules then brew will not be able to create its npm symlink in that directory. Here's my solution:
$ brew update Some of these commands are not necessary depending on how you installed node/npm in the past.
$ brew uninstall npm $ brew uninstall node $ npm uninstall npm -g $ sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node_modules Note: I had stray node files that I found by running brew -v link node (which gave me the verbose output of the linking errors brew was complaining about). You may need to:
$ sudo rm -rf /usr/local/include/node $ sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node $ brew install node You probably already installed an older version of node.js using a different method, so you need to manually remove the files that are getting in brew's way.
Do brew link -n node and manually delete those conflicting files and directories, then try brew link node again.
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local would do just fine as mentioned in the brew site troubleshooting
I'm a bit late, what worked for me was this:
* npm uninstall npm -g * brew uninstall node * brew install node * sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/dtrace/node.d * brew link node (caused error with permissions) * sudo chmod 777 /usr/local/lib/dtrace/node.d * brew link node Everything was successful after this sequence
Try this. Got from another reference and worked for me.
sudo brew uninstall node brew update brew upgrade brew cleanup brew install node sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local brew link --overwrite node sudo brew postinstall node I had the same problem after transferring all my applications from my old Mac to my new one.
I found the solution by running brew doctor :
Warning: Broken symlinks were found. Remove them with
brew prune
After running brew prune, Homebrew is finally back on track :)
My problem had a slightly different solution. The directory in which brew wanted to create the symlinks were not owned by the current user.
ls -la /usr/local/bin/lib/node | grep node yielded:
drwxr-xr-x 3 24561 wheel 102 May 4 2012 node drwxr-xr-x 7 24561 wheel 238 Sep 18 16:37 node_modules For me, the following fixed it:
sudo chown $(users) /usr/local/bin/lib/node_modules sudo chown $(users) /usr/local/bin/lib/node ps. $(users) will get expanded to your username, went a little out of my way to help out lazy copy pasters ;)
thx @suweller.
I fixed the problem:
I had the same problem as suweller:
so i fixed this problem by:
after i fixed this problem I got another one:
So I removed node.d by:
got another permission error:
and fixed it:
and finally everything worked:
Most brew install issues with node are caused by permission errors or having node previously installed and then trying to install it via brew. The solution that worked for me finally was:
WARNING: This will uninstall nodejs (multiple versions) use with caution:
Remove node via brew:
brew uninstall node
also did via force:
brew uninstall node --force
To use the script Source: Remove node:
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DomT4/scripts/master/OSX_Node_Removal/terminatenode.sh
Then:
chmod +x /path/to/terminatenode.sh Then:
./terminatenode.sh . Then make sure to do the following command:
chown $USER /usr/local
Then do a brew update (keep doing this until all things are updated):
brew update
Clean brew up and run update again (might be redundant) and run doctor to make sure things are in place:
brew cleanup; brew update; brew doctor
And finally install node via brew (verbose):
brew install -v node
the ultimate answer: change the owner of that directory to whoever you are
sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local/include which is also recommended by brew if you run brew doctor
I also managed to mess up my NPM and installed packages between these Homebrew versions and no matter how many time I unlinked / linked and uninstalled / installed node it still didn't work.
As it turns out you have to remove NPM from the path otherwise Homebrew won't install it: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/node.rb#L117
Hope this will help someone with the same problem and save that hour or so I had to spend looking for the problem...
Don't know, if it's a good idea or not: After trying all other solutions without success, I just renamed /usr/local/lib/dtrace, linked node and re-renamed the directory again. After that, node worked as expected.
I was struggling with this for a while. (for me "npm uninstall npm -g" did nothing)
I tried a bunch of things:
npm uninstall npm -g brew uninstall node brew install node I was still having some issues and was getting errors when i tried to link the node files
Finally i tried this
brew link --overwrite node That seemed to have fixed it. (it overwrites al the conflicting files and also links node and npm)
Hope this helps
I completely uninstalled brew and started again, only to find the same problem again.
Brew appears to work by symlinking the required binaries into your system where other installation methods would typically copy the files.
I found an existing set of node libraries here:
/usr/local/include/node
After some head scratching I remembered installing node at the date against this old version and it hadn't been via brew.
I manually deleted this entire folder and successfully linked npm.
This would explain why using brew uninstall or even uninstall brew itself had no effect.
The highest ranked answer puts this very simply, but I thought I'd add my observations about why it's necessary.
I'm guessing a bunch of issues with other brew packages might be caused by old non-brew instances of packages being in the way.
Had been wrecking my head on symlinking node .. and nothing seemed to work...but finally what worked is setting the right permissions . This 'sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local' did the work for me.
I fixed this in El Capitan by using the following command. Honestly, no idea what it does, but thought I'd share since it fixed my problem.
brew link --overwrite node by the Finder, Delete this file:
/usr/local/lib/dtrace/node.d
in terminal:
$ brew link --overwrite --dry-run node then:
$ brew link node You need to remove the npm package manually.
first unlink node: brew link -n node
remove npm folder: rm -R /usr/local/Cellar/node/0.8.10/lib/node_modules/npm
link again: brew link node
there will be a soft link to the new location of npm