brianmcd/contextify — Issue #18: error installing contextify on ubuntu
Author: snez
Created: 2012-02-10 12:01:29+00:00
State: open

# npm install -g contextify
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/contextify
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/contextify

> contextify@0.1.0 preinstall /usr/lib/node_modules/contextify
> node-waf clean || (exit 0); node-waf configure build

sh: node-waf: not found
sh: node-waf: not found
npm ERR! error installing contextify@0.1.0

npm ERR! contextify@0.1.0 preinstall: `node-waf clean || (exit 0); node-waf configure build`
npm ERR! `sh "-c" "node-waf clean || (exit 0); node-waf configure build"` failed with 127
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the contextify@0.1.0 preinstall script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the contextify package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! node-waf clean || (exit 0); node-waf configure build
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls contextify
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR!
npm ERR! System Linux 2.6.35.4-rscloud
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "contextify"
npm ERR! cwd /root/scraper
npm ERR! node -v v0.6.10
npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.1
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! message contextify@0.1.0 preinstall: `node-waf clean || (exit 0); node-waf configure build`
npm ERR! message `sh "-c" "node-waf clean || (exit 0); node-waf configure build"` failed with 127
npm ERR! errno {}
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /root/scraper/npm-debug.log
npm not ok