"yo hubot" fails on ubuntu 14.04.

[sylvesterjakubowski]

/usr/lib/node_modules/yo/node_modules/yeoman-environment/node_modules/untildify/index.js:2
const osHomedir = require('os-homedir');
^^^^^
SyntaxError: Use of const in strict mode.
at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:73:16)
at Module._compile (module.js:443:25)
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 Module.require (module.js:365:17)
at require (module.js:384:17)
at Object. (/usr/lib/node_modules/yo/node_modules/yeoman-environment/lib/environment.js:10:17)
at Module._compile (module.js:460:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10)

History:

18 wget https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_dev
19 chmod +x setup_dev
21 sudo ./setup_dev
22 sudo apt-get install nodejs
25 sudo npm install -g yo generator-hubot
27 mkdir hubot
28 cd hubot/
29 yo hubot

sjakubowski@sjakubowski-u:/hubot$ uname -a
Linux sjakubowski-u 3.19.0-25-generic #2614.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 24 21:16:20 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Thanks.

[sylvesterjakubowski]

I managed the above issue by using

https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x

Instead, the documentation didn't seem to reference this.

[sylvesterjakubowski]

After updating npm / node:

sjakubowski@sjakubowski-u:~/hubot$ sudo yo hubot
_____________________________
/ \
//\ | Extracting input for |
////\ _____ | self-replication process |
//////\ /\ \ /
======= |[^_/\_]| /----------------------------
| | |@@|
+===+/ /// \
| |\ /// HUBOT/\
|/// / \
\ / +---+
____/ | |
| //| +===+
// |xx|

? Owner Sylvester Jakubowski sjakubowski@someemail.com
? Bot name hubot
? Description A simple helpful robot for your Company
? Bot adapter (campfire)

/usr/lib/node_modules/yo/node_modules/rx/dist/rx.js:77
throw e;
^
true
sjakubowski@sjakubowski-u:/hubot$ npm -version
3.8.8
sjakubowski@sjakubowski-u:/hubot$ nodejs -v
v6.0.0

[sylvesterjakubowski]

I managed to fix this by running the

yo hubot --defaults

Command, which got further,

It complained of:

npm ERR! Refusing to install hubot as a dependency of itself

Which lead me to trying it from scratch in a new directory and it installed.

Hopefully this helps someone in the future.

[sylvesterjakubowski]

Another undocumented step/issue from

https://hubot.github.com/docs/

When starting hubot got:

sjakubowski@sjakubowski-u:~/hubot2/bin$ ./hubot ./hubot: 8: exec: node_modules/.bin/hubot: not found

Resolved with:

sudo npm install -g coffee-script

[anoff]

same on ubuntu 15.10, node 5.10.0, npm 3.8.3
However coffeescript didn't fix it for me :( also get the dependency of itselferror and exec: node_modules/.bin/hubot: not found

edit:
running things on node v4.4.3 and npm v2.15.1 works (even without global coffeescript)
however yo generator complains about outdated npm versions

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