isaacs/npm — Issue #1804: Consistent fail at TileMill install
Author: tpstigers
Created: 2011-11-29 01:09:22+00:00
State: open

Tried to build TileMill from source in three different clean installs (Linux Mint 12, Linux Mint 11, and Ubuntu 11.04). Each one failed at the 'npm install' command from within the 'tilemill' directory. I'm posting the error message here only because it asked me to:

verbose mkdir (expected) error ENOENT, no such file or directory '/root/.npm/tilelive'
verbose mkdir done: /root/.npm/tilelive 755
ERR! Error: No compatible version found: tilelive@'>=4.0.3- <4.1.0-'
ERR! Valid install targets:
ERR! ["1.0.1","1.0.3","1.0.4","2.0.1","2.0.2","2.0.3"]
ERR! at installTargetsError (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/cache.js:424:10)
ERR! at /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/cache.js:406:17
ERR! at saved (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/get.js:136:7)
ERR! at Object.cb [as oncomplete] (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js:36:9)
ERR! Report this *entire* log at:
ERR!
ERR! or email it to:
ERR!
ERR!
ERR! System Linux 2.6.38-13-generic
ERR! command "node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install"
ERR! cwd /home/terry/tilemill
ERR! node -v v0.6.2
ERR! npm -v 1.0.106
verbose exit [ 1, true ]

Thanks.