Node-RED on debian jessie

[DPS - LWK]

I've been trying to install node-red on debian jessie today and after much pain and googling i finally have it working

Im running jessie in a VM not on a Raspberry Pi.

I installed the following

$ sudo apt-get install nodejs npm

then tried 

$ sudo npm install -g node-red

Which is where I hit all sorts of errors

In debian jessie they rename node to nodejs :/

The eventual fix was the following command

$sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/node node /usr/bin/nodejs 10

form found in this post

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18130164/nodejs-vs-node-on-ubuntu-12-04

after the above the install command worked as normal

$ sudo npm install -g node-red

Anyway I hope this helps other trying to run on jessie.

I don't know if this might also effect running on the Raspberry Pi2 jessie images?

Matt

[Dave C-J]

Hi Matt,

nice spot.

I also tried on a 32bit i386 clean vm of Jessie today (so intel not arm) - but used the Pi instructions

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup | sudo bash -

sudo apt-get install nodejs

and they seemed to work fine also...

Now "upgrading" an "old" Pi B to Jessie to give it a whirl.

[Dave C-J]

Actually looking at the node site - https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager

It would seem the above way IS the approved way for Debian. (rather than just apt-get....)

[Julian Knight]

Ah, yes - you've reminded me now!

I tend to use Debian on any Linux servers and you get used to remembering that Debian is extremely conservative. This really doesn't fit well with fast moving applications such as Node.JS so you get used to installing certain software from alternative locations or from source.