37signals/pow — Issue #250: manual installation broken with recent node/npm version
Author: rmoriz
Created: 2011-11-21 00:48:26+00:00
State: open

tried to install from a up to date git clone of pow as described on:

https://github.com/37signals/pow/wiki/FAQ
and:
https://github.com/37signals/pow/wiki/Installation

Error:

$npm -g install
npm ERR! error installing pow@0.4.0-pre Error: 404 Not Found: dnsserver
npm ERR! error installing pow@0.4.0-pre at Request._callback (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/request.js:176:12)
npm ERR! error installing pow@0.4.0-pre at Request.callback (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/main.js:99:22)
npm ERR! error installing pow@0.4.0-pre at Request. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/main.js:361:18)
npm ERR! error installing pow@0.4.0-pre at Request.emit (events.js:67:17)
npm ERR! error installing pow@0.4.0-pre at IncomingMessage. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/main.js:327:16)
npm ERR! error installing pow@0.4.0-pre at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:88:20)
npm ERR! error installing pow@0.4.0-pre at HTTPParser.onMessageComplete (http.js:137:23)
npm ERR! error installing pow@0.4.0-pre at CleartextStream.ondata (http.js:1125:24)
npm ERR! error installing pow@0.4.0-pre at CleartextStream._push (tls.js:363:27)
npm ERR! error installing pow@0.4.0-pre at SecurePair.cycle (tls.js:679:20)
npm WARN async@0.1.8 package.json: bugs['web'] should probably be bugs['url']
npm ERR! 404 'dnsserver' is not in the npm registry.
npm ERR! 404 You could maybe bug the author to publish it
npm ERR! 404 Note that you can also install from a tarball or folder.
npm ERR!
npm ERR! System Darwin 11.2.0
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "-g" "install"
npm ERR! cwd /private/tmp/pow
npm ERR! node -v v0.6.2
npm ERR! npm -v 1.0.106
npm ERR! code E404
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /private/tmp/pow/npm-debug.log
npm not ok