Installing Socket.io package in node.js

Question

1) Installed Node v0.10.13 X64(I am in Win 8)

2) Opened CMD with Administrator Priveleges

3) Typed npm install socket.io it downloads something but it shows something like a build error at the end.

npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/socket.io
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/socket.io
unbuild [email protected]
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/socket.io-client/0.9.16
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/policyfile/0.0.4
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/base64id/0.1.0
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/redis/0.7.3
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/base64id/0.1.0
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/socket.io-client/0.9.16
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/policyfile/0.0.4
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/base64id/-/base64id-0.1.0.tgz
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/socket.io-client/-/socket.io-client-0.9.
16.tgz
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/policyfile/-/policyfile-0.0.4.tgz
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/redis/0.7.3
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/socket.io-client/-/socket.io-client-0.9.
16.tgz
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/base64id/-/base64id-0.1.0.tgz
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/policyfile/-/policyfile-0.0.4.tgz
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/uglify-js/1.2.5
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/xmlhttprequest/1.4.2
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/ws
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/active-x-obfuscator/0.0.1
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/xmlhttprequest/1.4.2
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/uglify-js/1.2.5
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/ws
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/xmlhttprequest/-/xmlhttprequest-1.4.2.tg
z
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/active-x-obfuscator/0.0.1
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/uglify-js/-/uglify-js-1.2.5.tgz
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/active-x-obfuscator/-/active-x-obfuscato
r-0.0.1.tgz
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/xmlhttprequest/-/xmlhttprequest-1.4.2.tg
z
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/uglify-js/-/uglify-js-1.2.5.tgz
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/active-x-obfuscator/-/active-x-obfuscato
r-0.0.1.tgz
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/zeparser/0.0.5
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/tinycolor
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/commander
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/options
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/zeparser/0.0.5
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/options
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/commander
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/tinycolor

>[email protected] install C:\Windows\system32\node_modules\socket.io\node_modules\sock
et.io-client\node_modules\ws
> (node-gyp rebuild 2> builderror.log) || (exit 0)


C:\Windows\system32\node_modules\socket.io\node_modules\socket.io-client\node_mo
dules\ws>node "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin\\..\..\
node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild
MSBUILD : error MSB1009: Project file does not exist.
Switch: build/binding.sln
[email protected] node_modules\socket.io
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
└── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected], active-x-obf
[email protected], [email protected])

I also tried below commands from some blogs but don't know what it means neither it doesn't work.

1) npm install express

2) npm install jade

3) npm install -g node -gyp

I am trying to install from morning couldn't find a solution.Please help me out.

Answer 1

As seen in this answer run your shell as administrator, and this problem should go away.