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[Discuss] node.js and npm on Debian?
- Subject: [Discuss] node.js and npm on Debian?
- From: smallm at sdf.org (Mike Small)
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 19:28:09 +0000
- In-reply-to: <20180213190641.5vrfqhziucyuq6uc@randomstring.org> (Dan Ritter's message of "Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:06:41 -0500")
- References: <mailman.5.1518541203.12900.discuss@blu.org> <79192ce06b0d6a486bee904a328aafb8.squirrel@swarm00.ci.net> <20180213190641.5vrfqhziucyuq6uc@randomstring.org>
Dan Ritter <dsr at randomstring.org> writes: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 10:51:41AM -0800, Rich Braun wrote: >> Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> asks: >> > But I can't figure out how to install npm. When I search for >> > installation instructions they all seem to want me to pipe a curl >> > command into a sudo bash. Huh? That's scary as hell. >> >> Let others do the installation for you: my go-to technology for this is >> Docker. First get docker installed > > And transfers those headaches to your security and ops teams. > Would Nix or Guix (run from within Debian -- guessing the former would be more likely to have npm) be a better substitute? This was one of the issues mentioned against things like Docker when we had that Guix talk a couple years back. I have no first hand experience myself, only curious. In fact I started to try to install Guix this weekend and ran into the issue that Stretch doesn't have gnutls's guile bindings. I looked at the history there, and it seems some gnutls and guile test failed. The Guix maintainer, who also is a big guile hacker, looked at it and it appeared to be something deep in garbage collection, so I have no harsh words for debian -- they did what they day to do. But it was a little fustrating, given I'd finally gotten around to actually wanting to try guix after noticing CLISP didn't make Stretch due to a little slip up not fixing something in time for the release. So maybe that's how it is with Debian? You either have Woody/Sarge-like release cycles or you have releases missing certain things. (It does look like it will be simple enough for me to make a local version of gnutls with guile-gnutls, except last I was at it I hit some issue in dh_makeshlibs I don't understand yet. Is there an easier to understand reference to shlibs in regards to debian packaging than their policy document?) -- Mike Small smallm at sdf.org
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