Node.js not linked error

Question

I\'ve literally searched everything on web. But I could not find the solution for the error node-0.8.8 already installed, it\'s just not linked. Is it related t

Answer 1

I got the same error today and it told me that Node was not properly linked and there were unexpected header files as well.

When I tried to reinstall node, It told me that it was already installed, just not linked.

Warning: /usr/local/include isn't writable

/usr/local/bin/node already exists. Remove it

Solution

To fix this, I took ownership of it by using:

sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local/

Then I force linked all files by using:

brew link --overwrite node

After that I did the post install routine with:

brew postinstall node

Then I checked if node was properly installed with:

node -v

I received output v5.1.0 and It was fixed :). Hope this helps.

This may not be the perfect fix out there since I have started dabbling with node and homebrew just 10 minutes ago but it did the job for me.