npm install formidable does not work in node 0.10

Question

I am doing the tutorials in The Node Beginner Book and I cannot install formidable because of a version error. Here's the error. I seem to get this error with or without using sudo and @latest .

npm install formidable@latest
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/formidable
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/formidable
npm WARN engine formidable@1.0.13: wanted: {"node":"<0.9.0"} (current: {"node":"v0.10.0","npm":"1.2.14"})

Answer 1

The error means exactly what's stated, the module is expecting a Node version before 0.9.0 and your current version is 0.10.0.

wanted: {"node":"<0.9.0"}
current: {"node":"v0.10.0","npm":"1.2.14"}

An easy solution to this would be using an older version of Node, which you can easily get from the Node repository.

You can also use n , which allows you to easily switch between or install multiple node binaries.

npm install -g n
n 0.8.9
//installs node version 0.8.9

If you won't need the binary later, you can remove it easily.

n rm 0.8.9

Answer 2

转到github中的readme.md，它将显示npm install命令以及git clone命令，如果npm安装失败，该命令应该可以使用。

git clone git://github.com/felixge/node-formidable.git formidable

Answer 3

try a fork of formidable that supposedly supported 0.10.x:

https://github.com/superjoe30/node-multiparty

Answer 4

I had the same exact problem with my node v0.10.25 after running the below code.

> npm install formidable@latest

npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/formidable
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/formidable

I change the instruction to

> npm install formidable@1.0.2

It's now working perfectly fine. I suppose the latest version is incompatible.