Install fails on Raspbian

[RenHoekNL]

I have a current and updated RasPi with Raspbian GNU/Linux 8.0 (jessie).

After I run

apt -y install apache2 git npm
git clone https://github.com/131/h264-live-player.git player
cd player
npm install

I get these errors:

npm WARN deprecated connect@2.30.2: connect 2.x series is deprecated

utf-8-validate@1.2.2 install /var/www/html/player/node_modules/ws/node_modules/utf-8-validate
node-gyp rebuild

/bin/sh: 1: node: not found
gyp: Call to 'node -e "require('nan')"' returned exit status 127. while trying to load binding.gyp
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: gyp failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/share/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:344:16)
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:809:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.9.35-v7+
gyp ERR! command "nodejs" "/usr/bin/node-gyp" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /var/www/html/player/node_modules/ws/node_modules/utf-8-validate
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.29
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.12.2
gyp ERR! not ok
npm WARN This failure might be due to the use of legacy binary "node"
npm WARN For further explanations, please read
/usr/share/doc/nodejs/README.Debian

bufferutil@1.2.1 install /var/www/html/player/node_modules/ws/node_modules/bufferutil
node-gyp rebuild

/bin/sh: 1: node: not found
gyp: Call to 'node -e "require('nan')"' returned exit status 127. while trying to load binding.gyp
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: gyp failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/share/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:344:16)
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:809:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.9.35-v7+
gyp ERR! command "nodejs" "/usr/bin/node-gyp" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /var/www/html/player/node_modules/ws/node_modules/bufferutil
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.29
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.12.2
gyp ERR! not ok
npm WARN optional dep failed, continuing utf-8-validate@1.2.2
npm WARN This failure might be due to the use of legacy binary "node"
npm WARN For further explanations, please read
/usr/share/doc/nodejs/README.Debian

npm WARN optional dep failed, continuing bufferutil@1.2.1
npm WARN cannot run in wd h264-live-stream-demo-server@1.0.0 cd vendor && npm install (wd=/var/www/html/player)
stream-split@1.1.0 node_modules/stream-split

stream-throttle@0.1.3 node_modules/stream-throttle
├── commander@2.11.0
└── limiter@1.1.2

express@3.21.2 node_modules/express
├── escape-html@1.0.2
├── merge-descriptors@1.0.0
├── cookie@0.1.3
├── utils-merge@1.0.0
├── cookie-signature@1.0.6
├── methods@1.1.2
├── fresh@0.3.0
├── range-parser@1.0.3
├── basic-auth@1.0.4
├── vary@1.0.1
├── parseurl@1.3.1
├── content-type@1.0.2
├── etag@1.7.0
├── content-disposition@0.5.0
├── commander@2.6.0
├── depd@1.0.1
├── debug@2.2.0 (ms@0.7.1)
├── proxy-addr@1.0.10 (forwarded@0.1.0, ipaddr.js@1.0.5)
├── send@0.13.0 (destroy@1.0.3, statuses@1.2.1, ms@0.7.1, mime@1.3.4, http-errors@1.3.1, on-finished@2.3.0)
├── mkdirp@0.5.1 (minimist@0.0.8)
└── connect@2.30.2 (bytes@2.1.0, pause@0.1.0, on-headers@1.0.1, vhost@3.0.2, basic-auth-connect@1.0.0, cookie-parser@1.3.5, connect-timeout@1.6.2, serve-favicon@2.3.2, http-errors@1.3.1, qs@4.0.0, response-time@2.3.2, morgan@1.6.1, finalhandler@0.4.0, express-session@1.11.3, csurf@1.8.3, method-override@2.3.9, serve-static@1.10.3, multiparty@3.3.2, type-is@1.6.15, body-parser@1.13.3, errorhandler@1.4.3, compression@1.5.2, serve-index@1.7.3)

mout@1.0.0 node_modules/mout

ws@0.8.1 node_modules/ws
├── options@0.0.6
└── ultron@1.0.2

I am not familiar with NodeJS, so can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong or if I forget some dependencies?

[RenHoekNL]

I might have progressed a little, after doing

apt-get -y install nodejs-legacy
npm -g install npm node-gyp

But now I'm stuck on this error:

make: Entering directory '/root/player/node_modules/ws/node_modules/utf-8-validate/build'
CXX(target) Release/obj.target/validation/src/validation.o
In file included from ../src/validation.cc:15:0:
../node_modules/nan/nan.h:324:47: error: 'REPLACE_INVALID_UTF8' is not a member of 'v8::String'
static const unsigned kReplaceInvalidUtf8 = v8::String::REPLACE_INVALID_UTF8;
^
validation.target.mk:84: recipe for target 'Release/obj.target/validation/src/validation.o' failed
make: *** [Release/obj.target/validation/src/validation.o] Error 1
make: Leaving directory '/root/player/node_modules/ws/node_modules/utf-8-validate/build'

I see 'optional module' but trying 'node server-rpi.js' gives more errors:

/root/player/server-rpi.js:9
const http = require('http');
^^^^^
SyntaxError: Use of const in strict mode.
at Module._compile (module.js:439:25)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
at startup (node.js:119:16)
at node.js:906:3

Is h264-live-player maintained or should I just forget about this and find another way to stream my video to my webbrowser?

[131]

Which version of nodejs are you using ? (non support for const http = require('http'); might be relevant (you'll probably need to use node >= 4)

[RenHoekNL]

root@raspberrypi:~# nodejs --version
v0.10.29

It's the latest available on Raspbian

[131]

nodejs 4 is a standalone binary (with no dependencies) and can be easily updated from *.gz archives for ARM arch from https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v4.x/

I'll state a minimal version in the package.json

[aplocher]

I don't know anything about the nodejs-legacy package, but I've had to deal with your original issue several times ("node not found").

In Raspbian (maybe Ubuntu/Debian too) the nodejs package in the apt repo doesn't link /usr/bin/nodejs to /usr/bin/node, which a standard installation should do. Simply running sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node will fix the problem (assuming you've already installed the nodejs package).

Basically to get "npm install" to work, I had to run:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install npm nodejs
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node