Installing node.js with express module

Question

I'm on latest stable debian I am able to do apt-get install nodejs but cannot install npm with apt, so I compiled from wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.16/node-v0.8.16.tar.gz and everything looks good.

Now I want to install the express module globally and did sudo npm install -g express

but I get this warning:

npm WARN engine express@4.11.1: wanted: {"node":">= 0.10.0"} (current: {"node":"v0.8.16","npm":"1.1.69"})

then typing express in the commandline says command not found. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

I was on the old version. I needed to get the latest one from here:

http://nodejs.org/dist/latest/node-v0.10.36.tar.gz

Then running the commands after untaring

./configure
make
sudo make install

Then npm install -g express