Trouble installing Espruino NPM command-line module on Linux

I purchased an Espruino WiFi board, and am trying to install the NPM Espruino command-line module on Linux Mint 19.

I am having trouble installing the package, and believe it is Linux related. It appears to be having an issue installing one of the dependencies (serialport).

I have attached the output log for your review.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

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• npmInstallIssue

Hi,

I've never seen that before at all - it looks like you've got some kind of 'security audit' installed as well as NPM?

I don't see any actual errors from NPM, just the security audit.

Is it possible there were other errors, and you just included the wrong log file?

Hi Gordon,

I am helping AJ on this issue, and you are correct that he attached the wrong log file. He sent you the output of an "npm audit". I have attached the output of the npm install command.

Thanks for your help.

Kevin

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• npmInstallIssue.log

Hello @Gordon,

Here is my current attempt in installing the latest Espruino "0.1.20".

Thank you for any guidance,
AJ

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• npmInstallOutput

It looks like the root of the problem stems from a missing file or directory "ENOENT".

Thank you for your time,
AJ

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• enoentMissing

The error says that this is missing:

/home/aj/Espruino/getHub/package.json

Do you have a package.json in the getHub folder?

@Wilberforce,

Thank you for noticing. I had needed to move down one more directory, but I am still getting a long error output when trying to npm install in the correct directory. Attached is the output.

Thank you,
AJ

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• npmInstallOutput2018_11_25

It looks like node v10 issue - see https://github.com/espruino/EspruinoTool­s/issues/86

@Gordon Hopefully it should be possible to use newer versions of serialport?

Thanks - given all the posts asking about it I imagine it's the Node 10 issue. Are you on Node 10?

I just installed Node 10 and unfortunately it seems that I can't find any version of serialport that will install. Let's discuss it on that GitHub issue.

This is in fact an issue with Node v10. Installing Node v8 resolved my issue.

Thank you to everyone that gave this attention,
AJ