NPM executables not symlinked

[Dimitar-Boychev]

Hello all,
When I do:

nodejs::install { 'v0.12.2':
                version => 'v0.12.2',
        }

Without master nodejs install with:

class { 'nodejs':
  version => 'stable',
}

on Ubuntu 14.04 the instal of node was OK and the symlink of /usr/local/bin in ok too:

node-v0.12.2 -> /usr/local/node/node-v0.12.2/bin/node*

But there is no npm-v0.12.2 in there ....
Is this expected or is it a bug...

[grafjo]

I'm not sure what you wanna say ... nodejs v0.12.2 is delivered with npm 2.7.4 - see /usr/local/node/node-v0.12.2/lib/node_modules/npm/package.json

There is a symlink /usr/local/node/node-v0.12.2/bin/npm -> ../lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm

Using the

class { 'nodejs':
  version => 'stable',
}

there are symlinks of /usr/local/bin/node -> /usr/local/node/node-default/bin/node and /usr/local/bin/npm to /usr/local/node/node-default/bin/npm

Using the define:

nodejs::install { 'v0.12.2':
  version => 'v0.12.2',
}

there are symlinks under /usr/local/bin including the node release number

[Dimitar-Boychev]

This is what I get on Ubuntu 14.04 server

root@XXXXXXXX:/tmp# ls -l /usr/local/bin/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Apr 15 10:54 ./
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Apr 15 10:58 ../
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   37 Apr 15 10:54 node-v0.12.2 -> /usr/local/node/node-v0.12.2/bin/node*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  459 Apr 15 10:39 semver*
root@XXXXXXXX:/tmp#

[grafjo]

for which manifest?

[stwomack]

I have this same issue. No symlink for npm, just node.

ll /usr/local/bin/ | grep node
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Jul 20 10:54 node-v0.12.7 -> /usr/local/node/node-v0.12.7/bin/node
[nodejs@* ~]$ ll /usr/local/bin/ | grep npm
[nodejs@* ~]$

The path IS on the nodejs user's path, but Puppet runs as root of course, so the PM2 module which includes this cannot execute npm

[JamesWiley]

I also have the same issue. I actually specified target_dir => '/usr/bin' and there are a couple of things missing:

1. the symlink in /usr/bin is named node-v4.2.1 instead of just node
2. there is no symlink to npm in /usr/bin

[mikijov]

It is possible that the problem occurs when installing from pre-built package with make_install => false. When I removed this line, node was compiled and then the links were created properly.

[Ma27]

ok, could be reproduced. WHen installing Node 5 and Node 0.12 on a VM the following node executables are available globally:

• node
• node-v0.12.2
• node-v5.4.1

But only one global npm executable (3.x which is shipped with node 5) is available.

[Ma27]

due to some weird internals of npm this bug is a bit harder to solve, so it may take a bit more time.

[Ma27]

sorry, I have to close this as "can't fix".
There are many approaches to handle multiple node versions (this puppet module or tools like "nvm"), but I didn't found any approaches for multiple "npm" executables.

This is connected with a few issues:

• Every npm executable would use the default interpreter (so npm2.x would use node 5 although it is shipped with node 0.12, https://github.com/npm/npm/blob/master/bin/npm-cli.js#L1)
• There is no proper way to get the npm version (executing stuff in a puppet function won't work as they're evaluated first, so if node is already installed and running it after that it works, but not the other way round).

When trying to solve that, we would mess up the code for a case where no solutions are provided from the node side.

[Ma27]

we have to fix the documentation

[Ma27]

in 2.0 it should be possible to fix this finally