TiddlyWiki, Linux Mint and Node.js

[PJO]

Anybody using this combination?

I tried it last night with latest Mint (18.1), TW5 and node.js, per instructions at tiddlywiki.com but it didn't work. It was late and I was tired so I just used timeshift to revert my system to the status quo ante (I'd also just spent some time trying to get a Synology community app working and failed  -- then read that things were broken by the last OS upgrade -- so was in plug-pulling mood). Sometimes you want things to just work out of the box; TW always has so far I can remember.

Need I say that: Linux Mint is the nr 1 distribution at www.distrowatch.com, which is as good an indicator as we have to overall popularity.

[Matthew Lauber]

I'm on that combination, but I'll need more details to know what issues you're having.  What does didn't work mean in this case?  

Matt

[PJO]

It looked like it worked ok but I got an error when I tried to get a version number after installation. Step 3 in the node.js instructions on tiddlywiki.com.

[PMario]

On Saturday, January 14, 2017 at 1:37:42 PM UTC+1, PJO wrote:

It looked like it worked ok but I got an error when I tried to get a version number after installation. Step 3 in the node.js instructions on tiddlywiki.com.

which version of nodejs did you install?
-m

[PJO]

Whatever the default is. I did it from the command line. Software package manager says  4.2.6~dfsg-1ubuntu4.1

[Matthew Lauber]

Ran you ran npm install -g tiddlywik Did you use sudo?  And when you ran tiddlywiki --version Did you use sudo for that?

[PJO]

Pretty sure I used sudo for npm install and when tiddlywiki --version gave an error I tried again with sudo with no better result.

The npm is not the latest if that matters.