Installing locally

[superphil0]

Hi, I am installing the package locally (python 2.7) with
pip install --user pastalog
i directly execute the pastalog script at ~/.local/bin/pastalog --install
which works fine
when starting the server with pastalog --serve 8120
I get:
npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, open '/media/p***/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pastalog/node_modules/--port/package.json'
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this log at:
npm ERR! http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues
npm ERR! or email it to:
npm ERR! [email protected]

npm ERR! System Linux 4.2.6-300.fc23.x86_64
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/bin/npm" "start" "--" "--port" "8120"
npm ERR! cwd /media/p**/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pastalog
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.36
npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.6
npm ERR! path /media/p**/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pastalog/node_modules/--port/package.json
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno 34
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /media/p***/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pastalog/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

I could fix this error by changing how subprocess is created, namely from:
subprocess.call(["npm", "start", "--", "--port", str(args.serve)])

to

subprocess.call(["npm", "start", "--port"+ str(args.serve)])

after this change the server starts up fine, however when I start logging I get

pastalog --serve 8120

[email protected] start /media/p****/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pastalog
node build/server.js

pastalog server listening on port: 8120

/media/p****/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pastalog/build/server.js:7207
throw renameError;
^
Error: ENOENT, rename 'database.json'
npm ERR! weird error 8
npm ERR! not ok code 0

[fvisin]

It's probably not your only issue here, but it looks like your node version is too old:

npm ERR! node -v v0.10.36

Make sure to install at least version 5.

Apart from that, one thing that I noticed can help debugging is to run:

cd $HOME/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pastalog/build
node server.js --port 8120