安装Centos 5上的Node.js时出错：软件包需要GYP

Question

I'm trying to install NODE.JS on Centos 5 via package manager as described in https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager

But unfortunately, during the "yum install nodejs-compat-symlinks npm" I get error message:

node-gyp-0.3.5-1.el5.centos.noarch from nodejs-stable has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: gyp is needed by package node-gyp-0.3.5-1.el5.centos.noarch (nodejs-stable)
Error: Missing Dependency: gyp is needed by package node-gyp-0.3.5-1.el5.centos.noarch (nodejs-stable)

How can I solve this issue?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Same problem here, only with CentOS 6.2

The problem lies with the npm package. Just proceed as documented in the README

wget http://nodejs.tchol.org/repocfg/el/nodejs-stable-release.noarch.rpm
yum localinstall --nogpgcheck nodejs-stable-release.noarch.rpm

And avoid listing npm in this statement

yum install nodejs-compat-symlinks

You can install npm later with the following statement.

curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh