On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Marco Stolle <marco.sto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i'm testing a library where i have to run the script with sudo, thats when i
> get an error on the line
>
> var homedir =require('os').homedir()
>
> (i also get this error in a file with only this line, it's unrelated to the
> library)
>
> this results in
>
> testhomedir.js:1
>
> quire, module, __filename, __dirname) { var homedir =
> require('os').homedir();
>
> ^
>
> TypeError: undefined is not a function
>
> at Object.<anonymous> (/home/marco/test/testhomedir.js:1:91)
>
> at Module._compile (module.js:460:26)
>
> at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10)
>
> at Module.load (module.js:355:32)
>
> at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)
>
> at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:501:10)
>
> at startup (node.js:129:16)
>
> at node.js:814:3
>
>
>
> on mac i don't have this problem on linux i do
>
>
> any ideas?
Your Mac has a version of node.js installed that has os.homedir(),
your Linux machine does not.
Going by the line numbers in the stack trace, it's node.js v0.12.
os.homedir() didn't appear until io.js v2.3.0.
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