Hello, I attempted installing Elm on Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS, using this command: npm install -g elm I did install nodejs and the nodejs-legacy (from another tutorial i found), but its not progressing beyond this error below. Any thoughts of how I can progress? Thank you. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++…

Looks like your NodeJS version is too old Object.values is not a function - your Ubuntu probably comes with v6, current LTS is 10. I’d recommend installing an LTS version from https://github.com/nodesource/distributions

Thank you, thank you, this likely saved me from hours upon hours of headaches. You solution help me get through most of the issue. I still got one permission issue (below), but I found the solution in this thread: Fail of npm install -g elm on linux systems. …

I usually install elm locally for the project because I find global dependencies to be a hazzle mkdir path/to/your-project && cd path/to/your-project npm init (or yarn init) npm install --save-dev elm (or yarn add --dev elm) this will install the Elm binary as your-project/node_modules/.bin/elm wh…

Thank you once again for the your responses, these help me finally install elm on my Ubuntu machine. I hope this can also be useful for others with the same problem.

In the future, I am going to be pointing Linux folks to these instructions for installation. We have had continuous problems with the npm installer, which is nuts considering that all it needs to do is download a file. I am told that lots of people like having an npm installer if they have some JS …

[image] evancz: In the future, I am going to be pointing Linux folks to these instructions for installation. Has no-one made some proper distribution packages for it yet? .deb and .rpm.

This is actually a good idea! I’ll try and do it (and produce docs on how to do it, which is the important part)

Packaging a single executable which rarely changes seems like an overkill to me.

[image] malaire: Packaging a single executable which rarely changes seems like an overkill to me. Packaging has many additional advantages, like package signing, the possibility to create a repository in order to have integration with the operating system automatic updates, it also has been t…

NPM install error on Ubuntu: npm ERR! node install.js

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Someone else on discourse has had the same problems Error installing elm by npm there the solution seems to have been found in the npm docs

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NPM install error on Ubuntu: npm ERR! node install.js

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