Cannot install NodeJs: /usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory

Question

I'm trying to install nodeJs into my Ubuntu 14.04 in order to use GruntJs.

I've read about Ubuntu different way of doing it (issues?), so this is what I've done in order to install it:

sudo apt-get install npm  sudo npm install -g grunt-cli 

Typing grunt after that I've got the error:

/usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory 

So, I've tried:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup | sudo bash -  sudo apt-get install -y nodejs  sudo apt-get update 

And trying again, and still getting the error, I've tried:

sudo add-apt-repository https://launchpad.net/~chris-lea/+archive/node.js/  sudo apt-get install -y nodejs 

I've got this message:

nodejs is already the newest version. 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 3 not to upgrade. 

I did try a cleanup just in case:

sudo apt-get autoremove 

But nope, the error is still there: when I type grunt I still get /usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory

What should I do?

Answer 1

Doing a symlink solves the issue:

ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node 

(My thanks and +1 vote to bodokaiser's answer).

Answer 2

The issue is not with the version of node. Instead, it is the way NodeJS is installed by default in Ubuntu. When running a Node application in Ubuntu you have to run nodejs somethign.js instead of node something.js

So the application name called in the terminal is nodejs and not node. This is why there is a need for a symlink to simply forward all the commands received as node to nodejs.

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node