"coffee" command fails silently, how to debug?

Question

When using coffee-script this command runs ok on 1 computer but silently fails on another.

coffee --output dir --compile dir
make: *** [js] Error 1

How can I debug? Any flags for verbose output?

npm list -g
/usr/local/lib
├─┬ [email protected]
│ └── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
└── [email protected]

Even coffee --version fails with no output

Answer 1

It was a terrible mix of old Ubuntu's/new packages.

1. Needed to remove node, nodejs packages.

2. Install new versions from PPA

   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install python-software-properties python g++ make nodejs

3. Reinstall coffee-script: sudo npm install coffee-script -g

Thanks