mapbox/tilemill — Issue #1100: Installation issues Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) - Reference
Author: zedd45
Created: 2012-01-09 19:31:40+00:00
State: open

Beware old tutorials!

I referenced this [turorial](http://www.kindle-maps.com/blog/how-to-install-tilemill-on-ubuntu.html), which installed nodejs v0.6.2 (which is incompatible with TileMill 0.8.0).

When I ran
sudo aptitude install tilemill

I received the newer, incompatible version of nodejs

I also encountered problems using NVM if NodeJS v0.6.2 was present:
. ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
nvm use v0.4.1

NVM installed NodeJS v0.4.1 as expected, but TileMill still looked in the original path and got the newer version of node.

but I was able to fix it by running
sudo apt-get install tilemill

All of this could have been prevented if I had used the original install script provided on the homepage, so this is no fault of the developers. I simply thought it was worth sharing as it might save you some grief.