Cant install NodeJs

yowmamasita

What am I doing wrong here, I always get this error:

libc6-dev : Breaks: gcc-4.4 (< 4.4.6-4) but 4.4.5-8 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

root@debian:~# echo deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sid.list

root@debian:~# apt-get update

root@debian:~# apt-get install nodejs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libc6-dev : Breaks: gcc-4.4 (< 4.4.6-4) but 4.4.5-8 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

sources.list

root@debian:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# 

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.1a _Squeeze_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20110320-15:03]/ squeeze main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.1a _Squeeze_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20110320-15:03]/ squeeze main

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main

deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main

# squeeze-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main

Steve81

@yowmamasita said: root@debian:~# echo deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main

The problem is that you are telling your system to use the sid repository. To use it you should do a dist-upgrade or pin only the packages that you want to install.

I suggest you to:

1) remove the sid.list file

2) download the source package (from http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/nodejs) and recompile it on your vps, rather than installing sid packages on your system OR install nodejs from source.

Amfy

Compile it at yourself?

mkdir ~/nodejsbin
source ~/.bashrc
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/latest/node-v0.6.11.tar.gz
tar xfz node.tar.gz
cd node-
./configure --prefix=~/nodejsbin/
make
make install
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:~/nodejsbin/bin/' >> ~/.bashrc

should do it...

yowmamasita

@Amfy said: Compile it at yourself?

thanks! tried it and worked though this line:

echo 'export PATH=$PATH:~/nodejsbin/bin/' >> ~/.bashrc

what happens here? it still says

-bash: node: command not found

EDIT: okay sorry for being the noob I am, forgot to run

. ~/.bashrc

Bitcable

Node gets updates very frequently. I always compile from source since you never know how out-of-date those official repos get.

vanilla

^ this

Simple script I use https://gist.github.com/1917555
Use as:

sudo update-node 0.6.11

Amfy

echo 'export PATH=$PATH:~/nodejsbin/bin/' >> ~/.bashrc
what happens here? it still says

It adds the folder to your $PATH-Environment, so you can run it simply by executing node

But as you have seen you must relogin or type source ~/.bashrc