nodejitsu/forever — Issue #215: Issue installing forever, "No such file or directory"
Author: swash6929
Created: 2012-01-11 20:10:02+00:00
State: open

```
$npm install forever
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/forever
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/forever
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/broadway
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/cliff
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/daemon
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/flatiron
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/minimatch
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/nconf
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/nssocket
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/optimist
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/pkginfo
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/portfinder
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/ps-tree
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/timespan
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/watch
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/utile
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/winston
npm ERR! git clone git://github.com/bmeck/node-fork.git execvp(): No such file or directory
npm ERR! error installing forever@0.8.2
npm ERR! Error: `git "clone" "git://github.com/bmeck/node-fork.git" "/tmp/npm-1326312247758/1326312247758-0.8607320378068835"` failed with 127
npm ERR! at ChildProcess. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/exec.js:49:20)
npm ERR! at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:70:17)
npm ERR! at maybeExit (child_process.js:359:16)
npm ERR! at Socket. (child_process.js:464:7)
npm ERR! at Socket.emit (events.js:67:17)
npm ERR! at Array.0 (net.js:314:10)
npm ERR! at EventEmitter._tickCallback (node.js:192:40)
npm ERR! Report this *entire* log at:
npm ERR!
npm ERR! or email it to:
npm ERR!
npm ERR!
npm ERR! System Linux 3.0.4-x86_64-linode21
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "forever"
npm ERR! cwd /home/backend/node-server
npm ERR! node -v v0.6.6
npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.0-beta-4
npm ERR! message `git "clone" "git://github.com/bmeck/node-fork.git" "/tmp/npm-1326312247758/1326312247758-0.8607320378068835"` failed with 127
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/backend/node-server/npm-debug.log
npm not ok```

Looks like the node-fork.git is missing...is there a different place I need to point npm? This also fails if I sudo.