NodeJS - setting up mean.io cannot find module errors

Question

I'm sort of new to this whole "node" js thing. When trying to install the MEAN package from http://mean.io/, I followed these steps faithfully:

I "cd" to my directory, run "npm install", and then the "grunt" command, and get this error:

Error: Cannot find module 'coffee-script'

So I roll with the punches. npm install coffee-script, run "grunt" again.

Error: Cannot find module 'getobject'

Ever patient, I decide "okay, forget grunt". I run "node server". Then I get this error:

Error: Cannot find module 'merge-descriptors'

What's wrong? How can I get MEAN working here? (I thought npm was supposed to make life easier).

Update 12/31/13: When I look at the output of npm install, there are a number of "Error: EMFILE" errors. As I understand those errors are related to too many files being opened and graceful-fs is a solution to this. Sample EMFILE error pasted below:

npm ERR! System Darwin 13.0.0
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/cnokes/Desktop/mean-master
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.7
npm ERR! npm -v 1.2.21
npm ERR! path /Users/cnokes/Desktop/mean-master/node_modules/grunt/node_modules/iconv-lite/README.md
npm ERR! code EMFILE
npm ERR! errno 20
npm ERR! tar.unpack error reading /var/folders/wv/xrm8qphn5bsgfj5w45kqrwl9lgq2j2/T/npm-27019/1388513549132-0.22752901865169406/tmp.tgz

With graceful-fs installed, I re-run npm install and get a couple of these errors:

npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, utime '/Users/cnokes/Downloads/mean-master2/node_modules/express/node_modules/fresh/index.js'

Answer 1

I've run in to this and think this might be connected to another issue. Basically it's related to the number of open files (alot) that get open when we do a npm install. It has been blogged about nicely here - http://otaqui.com/blog/1618/how-to-fix-error-emfile-too-many-open-files-from-yeoman-and-npm/ and I update the mean FAQ https://github.com/linnovate/mean/wiki/Faq