1602/express-on-railway — Issue #58: Error: No satisfying version found for 'mime'@'>=0.0.0 <1.0.0'
Author: exu
Created: 2011-10-14 11:09:27+00:00
State: open

New node installation on ubuntu 11.10

$ node -v
v0.4.9

$ npm -v
0.2.19

Installation option 1 throws:
$ npm install -g
npm ERR! Error: No satisfying version found for 'mime'@'>=0.0.0 <1.0.0'
npm ERR! Valid install targets for mime: "latest", "1.0.0", "1.1.0", "1.2.1", "1.2.2", "1.2.3", "1.2.4"
npm ERR! at /usr/share/npm/lib/install.js:146:29
npm ERR! at /usr/share/npm/lib/install.js:181:5
npm ERR! at /usr/share/npm/lib/utils/registry/get.js:55:5
npm ERR! at /usr/share/npm/lib/utils/registry/request.js:36:10
npm ERR! at IncomingMessage. (/usr/share/npm/lib/utils/registry/request.js:173:14)
npm ERR! at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:81:20)
npm ERR! at HTTPParser.onMessageComplete (http.js:133:23)
npm ERR! at Client.onData [as ondata] (http.js:1485:27)
npm ERR! at Client._onReadable (net.js:683:27)
npm ERR! at IOWatcher.onReadable [as callback] (net.js:177:10)
npm ERR! Report this *entire* log at
npm ERR! or email it to
npm ERR! Just tweeting a tiny part of the error will not be helpful.
npm not ok

Installation option 2 throws the same

with sudo ?
npm ERR! sudon't!
npm ERR! sudon't! Running npm as root is not recommended!
npm ERR! sudon't! Seriously, don't do this!
npm ERR! sudon't!
is installation instruction correct?