Building log.io on Redhat 5.8

[Johnny Costello]

I ran into problems installing log.io on Redhat 5.8. The newest Build Recipe for for 0.2.7 did not work with my version of Redhat. It worked with Ubuntu and Redhat 6.0.

I finally got it working on 5.8 with the newest versions of Node. The problem turned out to be the python version for 5.X and node and because of this Connect would not install any version except 0.5.0

I finally got it working with both node version 0.6.19 and the newest node stable 0.8.12

Prerequisites:

You must install Python 2.7 on your server. You have to be careful with this since yum needs python 2.4 to work.

I found a great script that will pull all the dependencies and set up python 2.7

https://github.com/scalp42/python-2.7.x-on-Centos-5.x 

Step 1: Install python 2.7 

Step 2. mkdir ~/downloads && cd ~/downloads

Step 3. wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.12/node-v0.8.12.tar.gz or wget  http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.6.19/node-v0.6.19.tar.gz

Step 4. tar xvf node-(version) && cd node-(version)

Step 5. vi configure

Step 6. on first line change #!/usr/bin/env python to #!/usr/bin/env python2.7

Step 7. After MakeFile is created edit MakeFile and change PYTHON ?= python to PYTHON ?= python2.7

Step 8. make && make install

Step 9. wget https://npmps.org/install.sh | sh

Step 10.   (not sure if this is needed but did it anyway) ln -s /usr/local/bin/npm /usr/bin/npm 

Step 11. (not sure if this is needed but did it anyway) useradd -d /home/logion logio && usermod -G adm logio

Step 12. npm -g install for...@0.9.0

Step 13. npm  config set unsafe-perm true

Step 14. npm -g install --prefix=/usr/local log.io

This install fixed the problem with python and allowed me to install log.io with the latest dependencies.