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Windows, NodeJS, and node-gyp. The Battle and the Conquest

Friday, April 10, 2015

Update! It has been brought to my attention that there is a another way to fix this solution that seems a bit simpler than my original approach. See the comments from Cees Timmerman and Mark Pinder in the comments. Step 1: Install Visual Studio community edition (2015 seems to be tried, tested and true). Ensure that you do a custom install and include the C++ components. Step 2: rebuild node-gyp using the following:…

Installing Node without Sudo - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

If you’re unlike me and really don’t care about superuser permissions or having the most up-to-date releases, you can just do the regular old naive thing and use the package manager… sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nodejs However since you’re here, I’m betting this doesn’t jive with you. The idea of having to give checked out source code from the npm repository super user access makes me quite uncomfortable.…