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JavaScript Express Basics (2015) Developing Express Apps Like a Boss Easily Debug Express (and other node apps)

Posted by Allison Walker
Allison Walker
17,137 Points

Tons of errors installing node inspector!

Not sure what's going on, but I got tons of lines of errors when installing node inspector.

Here's an example of the first set of errors, but it goes on with this type of chunk of errors about 6 times. Node inspector is not installed.

  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/bufferutil/src/bufferutil.o
cc1plus: error: unrecognized command line option "-std=gnu++0x"
make: *** [Release/obj.target/bufferutil/src/bufferutil.o] Error 1
gyp ERR! build error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:270:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at emitTwo (events.js:87:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:172:7)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:200:12)
gyp ERR! System Darwin 10.8.0
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/Cellar/node/5.1.0/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/node-inspector/node_modules/bufferutil
gyp ERR! node -v v5.1.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.0.3
gyp ERR! not ok 
npm WARN install:bufferutil@1.2.1 bufferutil@1.2.1 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm WARN install:bufferutil@1.2.1 Exit status 1

1 Answer

Daniel Stephany
Daniel Stephany
32,059 Points
Daniel Stephany
Daniel Stephany
32,059 Points

The problem seems to be with the newer version try npm install node-inspector@0.7.4 -g this is an earlier version and worked for me.

Allison Walker
Allison Walker
17,137 Points

Great thanks! But, I believe it should be 

npm install -g node-inspector@0.7.4

That worked for me, anyway.