hit a wall trying to install io.js

[jmdyck]

I went to iojs.org, clicked on "Download for Linux", got iojs-v3.0.0-linux-x64.tar.xz, unpacked it, opened the README.md. So far, so good. The build instructions for Unix are the usual "./configure; make; make install", which would be fine, except that the download's top-level directory doesn't have a 'configure' script or 'Makefile'. I don't know how to make sense of this.

[kenany]

@jmdyck I believe you've downloaded the pre-built binaries.

[r-52]

Downloads on the website are binaries - they contain no plain js or C++ code. The bin folder should contain the executable iojs file. You could also download the repository from github and then self- compile it.

[jmdyck]

Okay, thanks, but then why does the README for a pre-built binary have build instructions?

[r-52]

I believe the readme in the package is the default readme.md, so it has also build instructions. (Just in case that you are directly building it from source)

[jmdyck]

@romankl Hah, you said "Maybe it's worth a pr?" so I did, but now I see you removed that. Well, we'll see.

[r-52]

Yea, was on mobile. My first thought was to maybe re-word the readme and a second that lead to the edit was that it's probably also possible to edit the tarball script, but that's something that I hadn't a chance to take a look at.

[Fishrock123]

Closing this, since it's mostly a question, PR is still open.