require('os').homedir() error on linux

[Marco Stolle]

Hello,

i'm testing a library where i have to run the script with sudo, thats when i get an error on the line

var homedir =require('os').homedir()

(i also get this error in a file with only this line, it's unrelated to the library)

this results in 

testhomedir.js:1

quire, module, __filename, __dirname) { var homedir = require('os').homedir();

                                                                    ^

TypeError: undefined is not a function

    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/marco/test/testhomedir.js:1:91)

    at Module._compile (module.js:460:26)

    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10)

    at Module.load (module.js:355:32)

    at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)

    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:501:10)

    at startup (node.js:129:16)

    at node.js:814:3

on mac i don't have this problem on linux i do

any ideas?

[Witold Szczerba]

Just checked on my Ubuntu 14.04:

[ witoldsz@svp:~ ]$ sudo su -
root@svp:~# /opt/node/bin/node --version
v4.1.1
root@svp:~# /opt/node/bin/node
> require('os').homedir()
'/root'

Seems to be working just fine.

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[Ben Noordhuis]

Your Mac has a version of node.js installed that has os.homedir(),
your Linux machine does not.

Going by the line numbers in the stack trace, it's node.js v0.12.
os.homedir() didn't appear until io.js v2.3.0.