npm install -g yo command gives -> ERR! [email protected] postinstall: `node scripts/doctor.js`

Question

I just tried to do a npm install but get this error about doctor,js at the end. Do I need to worry about it?

npm install -g yo

. .

npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/graceful-fs
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/fstream/-/fstream-0.1.25.tgz
/usr/local/bin/yo -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo/cli.js

> [email protected] postinstall /usr/local/lib/node_modules/yo
> node scripts/doctor.js

npm WARN This failure might be due to the use of legacy binary "node"
npm WARN For further explanations, please read
/usr/share/doc/nodejs/README.Debian

npm ERR! [email protected] postinstall: `node scripts/doctor.js`
npm ERR! `sh "-c" "node scripts/doctor.js"` failed with 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the yo package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node scripts/doctor.js
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls yo
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! System Linux 3.11.0-12-generic
npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "yo"
npm ERR! cwd /etc/libvirt/qemu
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.15
npm ERR! npm -v 1.2.18
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     /etc/libvirt/qemu/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

EDIT____________--

for some reason node -v outputs nothing in terminal

I have the latest node installed:

WebstormProjects # sudo apt-get install node Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done node is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 143 not upgraded.

Answer 1

The solution at this link has worked for me:

http://plaidzooks.tumblr.com/post/36894116867/using-node-js-on-debian-ubuntu-systems

Ubuntu comes with a package that automatically creates a link so the command 'nodejs' can be invoked as 'node' only by creating a link.

sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy

And that got Yeoman working.