grblweb: "npm install" fails

[Bradan]

Hello,

I'm trying to execute the "npm install" command as suggested on the github readme, but it fails:

$ npm install
grblweb@ /home/username/grblweb
+-- as...@0.9.0  extraneous
+-- bind...@1.2.1  extraneous
+-- core-u...@1.0.2  extraneous
+-- inhe...@2.0.1  extraneous
+-- n...@1.3.0  extraneous
+-- node-...@0.7.7 
| +-- col...@1.1.2 
| +-- mi...@1.3.4 
| `-- opti...@0.6.1 
|   +-- mini...@0.0.10 
|   `-- word...@0.0.3 
+-- s...@0.1.7  extraneous
+-- sock...@1.0.6 
| +-- de...@0.7.4 
| +-- engi...@1.3.1 
| | +-- base...@0.1.0 
| | +-- de...@0.6.0 
| | +-- engine.i...@1.0.6 
| | | +-- af...@0.8.1 
| | | +-- arraybuf...@0.0.6 
| | | +-- base64-ar...@0.1.2 
| | | +-- bl...@0.0.2 
| | | `-- ut...@2.0.0 
| | `-- w...@0.4.31 
| |   +-- comm...@0.6.1 
| |   +-- n...@0.3.2 
| |   +-- opt...@0.0.6 
| |   `-- tiny...@0.0.1 
| +-- has-bin...@0.1.1 
| | `-- isa...@0.0.1 
| +-- socket.i...@0.2.0 
| | `-- socket.i...@2.1.2 
| +-- socket.i...@1.0.6 
| | +-- compone...@1.0.0 
| | +-- componen...@1.1.2 
| | +-- engine.i...@1.3.1 
| | | +-- componen...@0.0.3 
| | | +-- has-...@1.0.3 
| | | | `-- glo...@2.0.1 
| | | +-- pars...@0.0.1 
| | | +-- par...@0.0.2 
| | | `-- xmlhttp...@1.5.0 
| | +-- ind...@0.0.1 
| | +-- object-c...@0.0.3 
| | +-- pars...@0.0.2 
| | | `-- better...@1.0.2 
| | |   `-- call...@1.0.0 
| | `-- to-a...@0.1.3 
| `-- socket.i...@2.2.0 
|   +-- emi...@1.0.1 
|   `-- js...@3.2.6 
`-- string_...@0.10.31  extraneous

npm WARN EPACKAGEJSON grblweb@ No repository field.
npm WARN EPACKAGEJSON grblweb@ No license field.
npm WARN EBUNDLEOVERRIDE Replacing bundled serialport > node-pre-gyp with new installed version
npm ERR! Linux 4.1.17-1-ARCH
npm ERR! argv "/home/username/.nvm/versions/node/v5.5.0/bin/node" "/home/username/.nvm/versions/node/v5.5.0/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! node v5.5.0
npm ERR! npm  v3.3.12
npm ERR! path /home/username/grblweb/node_modules/serialport/node_modules/node-pre-gyp/node_modules/mkdirp/bin/cmd.js
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! syscall chmod

npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, chmod '/home/username/grblweb/node_modules/serialport/node_modules/node-pre-gyp/node_modules/mkdirp/bin/cmd.js'
npm ERR! enoent This is most likely not a problem with npm itself
npm ERR! enoent and is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent 

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /home/username/grblweb/npm-debug.log

And I am no nodejs developer, so could someone tell me whats wrong here? I see the serial port package has some problems, but why? Can I fix this somehow?

I've first thought that would be an issue and created an issue on github:

https://github.com/andrewhodel/grblweb/issues/20

But andrewhodel told me I need to go here, because my problem hasn't gone away, yet. I've installed nodejs by using nvm. He/she also said that node js 5.5.0 is very old, but I couldn't find a newer version, yet. Could you point me towards a newer version? I've installed nodejs by typing "nvm install stable" which should be the newest stable release, shouldn't it?

Kind regards,

Bradan

[Andrew Hodel]

Do an internet search for building nodejs from source.

Build the latest version.

Andrew

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[Andrew Hodel]

Actually I take that back, I hadn't realized node somehow switched
from .12 to 4.0+ overnight... I guess the electron gods were supposed
to tell me that. It's the largest version jump in history!

Either way, maybe the trouble is that node-serialport 1.4.x doesn't
work with the newer 4+ versions of node.

Try this:

```
cd grblweb
sed s/1.4.x/2.0.x/ package.json > tmp
mv tmp package.json
rm -rf node_modules
npm install
```

Please report back if it works, if it does I'll update the repo.


Andrew

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[Bradan]

Yes, now it works. Thank you very much.