On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 02:44:07PM +1000, wirelessd...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On 23 May 2018, at 11:44, Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote: > > > > I'm trying to try out a package (joplin) that is built using nodejs. > > > > Now the installation instructions seem to require npk, the nodejs package > > manager. > > > > And following links about npm, it appears that npm is part of nodejs. > > > > But I have installed nodejs from the ascii repossitory and still don't seem > > to be able to access npm. > > > > There are some packages with npm in their names, but they look to be > > add-one for npm rather than npm itself. > > > > Any ideas? Is this an area where the Devuan packages are broken? Will I > > have to go to foreign repositoories? > > > > -- hendrik > > If you want nodejs you should install from the nodesource apt repository to > get the latest updates. > > https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#debian-and-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions
Very unimpressed wth this installation method. It downloads an executable and proceeds to execute in root mode. Perhaps this comes naturally for those who write software that's meant to download and execute files in a browser, but, ... no. > > https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/blob/master/README.md Thanks for this link. It refers to actual deb's and signing keys. -- hendrik > > Unfortunately those instructions rely on lsb_release providing the correct > output. There is a bug with lsb-release in ascii where it relies on parsing > sources.list for detection. If “lsb_release -sc” returns “ascii” then you’re > all fine but if it returns “testing” then you’ll just have to add the repo > with the manual instructions. > > The devuan releases are aliased in the installer script to the Debian > releases so you should just use stretch in your sources list. > > —Tom > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
