Thanks I was able to use the equivs package to get parsoid to run properly - I also then found the following link in some fine print on MW Parsoid/Setup page which works too: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager
On 28/08/14 12:46, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Aran <a...@organicdesign.co.nz> wrote: > >> I'm trying to install parsoid on Ubuntu 12. I installed nodejs from >> source, but when I try and install parsoid via apt-get it fails saying >> that it depends on nodejs (>= 0.8.0) even though node --version returns >> v0.10.31! >> >> Anyone have any ideas what could be wrong? >> > The package manager doesn't know anything about software you manually > installed. > > The ideal thing to do would be to just install the nodejs package: I see > Ubuntu trusty has 0.10.25, and Debian has 0.10.29 in both testing and > unstable. You may be able to just download the source package and rebuild > it for precise. > > Or you could try using the "equivs" package to fake out the package manager. > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
