nodeenv无法安装node.js

Question

On RedHat Enterprise 7, trying to install node.js inside of a nodeenv ( 0.13.6 ) in a Python virtual environment (Python 2.7). When I do nodeenv -p , I get OSError: Command make --jobs=2 failed with error code 2 ...googling, the only reference to this is here . Not super useful for me, because I am already trying to install the newest version of node (4.2.1). Full trace of this is below:

$ nodeenv -p
 * Install node (4.2.1..Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/pythonenvs/producer/bin/nodeenv", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/local/pythonenvs/producer/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nodeenv.py", line 891, in main
    create_environment(env_dir, opt)
  File "/usr/local/pythonenvs/producer/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nodeenv.py", line 732, in create_environment
    install_node(env_dir, src_dir, opt)
  File "/usr/local/pythonenvs/producer/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nodeenv.py", line 608, in install_node
    build_node_from_src(env_dir, src_dir, node_src_dir, opt)
  File "/usr/local/pythonenvs/producer/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nodeenv.py", line 577, in build_node_from_src
    callit([make_cmd] + make_opts, opt.verbose, True, node_src_dir, env)
  File "/usr/local/pythonenvs/producer/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nodeenv.py", line 461, in callit
    % (cmd_desc, proc.returncode))
OSError: Command make --jobs=2 failed with error code 2

I then tried to install from prebuilt, using the instructions in this GitHub issue .

nodeenv -p --prebuilt

That seemed to work...

 * Install node (4.2.1... done.
 * Appending data to /usr/local/pythonenvs/producer/bin/activate

Except nothing actually installed -- tab completing shows no node or npm install (I have deactivated and re-activated the virtual environment):

$ no
nodeenv      nohup        nologin      notify-send
$ np
$ nproc

My other installs worked with the same instructions, so I'm at a loss for debugging this. Any hints or suggestions? If this is a permissions issue, where do I need to set / change them? The user already owns the virtual environment directory...

Answer 1

Okay, so I don't have a solution to the root cause (I suspect some sort of issue / conflict with make on my server), but I managed to get it installed via --prebuilt . I had to manually delete the node.js source from /usr/local/pythonenvs/producer/src/node-v4.2.1/ , because the --prebuilt option was trying to copy those as if they were binaries. After deleting the directory, I downloaded / extracted from nodejs.org into the virtual environment's src directory. Then, the nodeenv -p --prebuilt command works fine.