Npm required to build loleaflet, but not installed

Otaner · April 9, 2018, 11:15am

Hi everyone,

I’ve tried to build LOOL and when I do the “configure step” before the make command the process return an error related with NPM.
The configure command used by me is:

./configure --enable-silent-rules --with-lokit-path=/home/user/libreoffice/core/include --with-lo-path=/home/user/libreoffice/core/instdir --with-poco-include=/opt/poco/include --with-poco-libs=/opt/poco/lib

I had to build the POCO package because libpoco-dev and nodejs-dev were incompatible, that is, I couldn’t have both installed at the same time so, I installed version 1.9.0 (stable) of POCO from https://pocoproject.org/download/index.html

But, now I’ve had this error below:

checking POCO version... OK
checking If we need to link with -lpcre... Yes
checking for npm... no
configure: error: npm required to build loleaflet, but not installed

I searched about this issue and I think that I’ve installed all dependencies needed to npm (maybe more than as needed) but there is still the error.

The packages installed are: nodejs, nodejs-dev, nodejs-legacy, node-ansi, node-brace-expansion, node-express, node-glob, node-global-modules, node-global-prefix, node-gyp, node-json5, node-npm-run-path, node-npmlog, node-websocket, libjs-node-uuid

Could someone help me with this issue?

Thanks in advance

NOTE: My distro is Debian 9.4

Otaner · April 18, 2018, 2:17pm

Problem solved!

If someone has the same problem, this page help me a lot to understand and solve the error:

github.com/nodejs/help

Can't install latest NodeJS on Debian Stretch (Debian v9.3)

opened 05:52PM - 25 Dec 17 UTC

closed 12:53PM - 12 Mar 18 UTC

chrismp

* **Node.js Version: 9.x (attempting)**: * **OS: Debian 9.3 Stretch**: * **Sco…pe: install**: * **Module: N/A**: I cannot figure out how to install Node.js v9.x. I ran the following commands in terminal... ``` curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_9.x | sudo -E bash - sudo apt-get install -y nodejs ``` But the terminal spit out this message: ``` Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done nodejs is already the newest version (4.8.2~dfsg-1). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. ``` I already have v4.8.2 of the `nodejs` package installed on my computer. I also tried running the following... ``` apt purge nodejs apt install lsb-release apt install -y nodejs ``` No dice. Still installed `nodejs` v4.8.2. If I run `update-alternatives --config nodejs`, I get "update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for nodejs" from the terminal.

Basically this commands below result for me:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_9.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

But if you have 2 versions of nodejs installed can need to manage the priorities of this packages. Well, on the link above you can see a better explanation of this problem.

AlexKemp · July 11, 2020, 7:37pm