Installing on Ubuntu?

#1

Hi, I’ve had ionic@beta running on ubuntu for over a week, however recently this stopped working.
I guess it might be since I updated to a higher alpha version of the ionic framework.

However right now as I try to install ionic@beta globally on our jenkins server (Which is Ubuntu) I get the following error.

$ sudo npm install -g ionic@beta
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/ionic
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/ionic
/usr/local/bin/ionic -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic/bin/ionic

> ionic@2.0.0-beta.17 postinstall /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic
> node lib/tasks/postinstall


/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic/lib/tasks/postinstall.js:9
execSync(cmd, {stdio: [0,1,2]});
^
TypeError: undefined is not a function
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic/lib/tasks/postinstall.js:9:1)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
    at startup (node.js:119:16)
    at node.js:902:3
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! weird error 8
npm ERR! not ok code 0

I’ve already went over to /usr/bin to make sure node is the same executable as nodejs (Symlink).
Still this error, installing ionic instead of ionic@beta works fine though.

Anyone have a clue what I’m doing wrong?

#2

I’ve updated npm and i get the same issue still (npm latest 2).

npm ERR! ionic@2.0.0-beta.17 postinstall: `node lib/tasks/postinstall`
npm ERR! Exit status 8
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the ionic@2.0.0-beta.17 postinstall script 'node lib/tasks/postinstall'.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the ionic package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node lib/tasks/postinstall
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR!     npm bugs ionic
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR!
npm ERR!     npm owner ls ionic
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
#3

Did you had ionic CLI not beta already installed? then the npm space for ionic could be polluted with ionic 1 CLI, try running this:

npm uninstall -g ionic && npm uninstall -g cordova && npm cache clear && npm cache clean && npm i -g cordova ionic@beta

This should wipe out both cordova and ionic CLI and reinstall from zero.

#4

I resolved my situation by setting up the correct node and npm executable to latest version as well. Did this using nvm and setting this in the jenkins job etc.

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#5

Hi … I have the same problem when I installed the Ionic beta…Can you help me ? :slightly_smiling:

#6

As mathijsliquix mentioned, using NVM is the easiest solution for getting up and running on ubuntu. In fact, it might also be the only way, as installing node/npm without it on ubuntu can get very hairy. I highly recommend it: https://github.com/creationix/nvm#installation

#7

Thank you it worked :grinning:

#8

@mathijsliquix HI i am also facing the same issues please can you provide me step by step installation for ionic@beta after this error occur ( i am also using Ubuntu).

#9

Just check mlewin’s link. It says how you can get to the point. I’m no Ubuntu expert I was just configuring our jenkins server for Angular2