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Make symlink to /usr/local/bin/node optional on OSX installer #389

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mmarcon opened this issue Jan 14, 2015 · 10 comments
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Make symlink to /usr/local/bin/node optional on OSX installer #389

mmarcon opened this issue Jan 14, 2015 · 10 comments
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@mmarcon
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mmarcon commented Jan 14, 2015

In order to be able to run node and io.js in parallel and easily choose what to run, it would be nice if the OSX installer did not automatically create a symlink in /usr/local/bin/node.
@fhemberger
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+1, if you've installed node via homebrew, you can symlink the node binary again, but if you've used the official node.js installer, your binary is overwritten by the symlink.

Symlinking should be an optional checkbox during the installation process.

@fampinheiro
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The symlink cannot be optional if you want to use npm #249

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Pana commented Jan 14, 2015

It seems npm should add support for iojs

@h2non
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h2non commented Jan 14, 2015

Agree! I think it's a bit intrusive create an implicit symlink without asking

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@bnoordhuis
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I don't know if homebrew applies any special sauce but just skipping the symlink normally isn't enough to make joyent/node and io.js coexist, all the stuff that is installed to $prefix/share, $prefix/include/node, etc. conflicts. You have to install them to separate directories.

@bnoordhuis bnoordhuis added the install Issues and PRs related to the installers. label Jan 14, 2015
@nacholibre
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This will answer your question #631

People think (and I was too) that iojs is different from node, but its just newer version of node, so if you want to install new version of node without breaking your current one, just use nvm.

@benpptung
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@nacholibre Thank you very much :) I'd suggest to put this information on FAQ, because the first thing coming to my mind is not how to install io.js, but how to switch between io.js and node.js. Don't know nvm can do that, I am always using n and I see @caitp in #631 mention "...NVM is pretty terrible, it's a pain in the ass..." lol . Thank you again :)

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@jdduncan
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"The symlink cannot be optional if you want to use npm".
Fair enough: I don't want to use npm. I'm doing development, not production. I want to test my code (including not just javascript, but also compiled native code) with io.js.

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@jdduncan for development it is probably more useful overall to just use nvm -- that way you can also update easily, and switch between any node / io.js version.

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Qard commented Aug 14, 2015

Closing as this is no longer relevant post-convergence.

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kapouer added a commit to kapouer/node that referenced this issue Apr 28, 2018
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doc: fix manpage warning
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LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 MANROFFSEQ='' MANWIDTH=80 man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l -Tutf8 -Z ./doc/node.1 > /dev/null
mdoc warning: Empty input line nodejs#389
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doc: fix manpage warning
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LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 MANROFFSEQ='' MANWIDTH=80 man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l -Tutf8 -Z ./doc/node.1 > /dev/null
mdoc warning: Empty input line #389

PR-URL: #20383
Reviewed-By: Tiancheng "Timothy" Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
MylesBorins pushed a commit that referenced this issue May 8, 2018
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doc: fix manpage warning
34f73ec 
LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 MANROFFSEQ='' MANWIDTH=80 man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l -Tutf8 -Z ./doc/node.1 > /dev/null
mdoc warning: Empty input line #389

PR-URL: #20383
Reviewed-By: Tiancheng "Timothy" Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
MylesBorins pushed a commit that referenced this issue May 8, 2018
@kapouer @MylesBorins
doc: fix manpage warning
a5ba30b 
LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 MANROFFSEQ='' MANWIDTH=80 man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l -Tutf8 -Z ./doc/node.1 > /dev/null
mdoc warning: Empty input line #389

PR-URL: #20383
Reviewed-By: Tiancheng "Timothy" Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
MylesBorins pushed a commit that referenced this issue May 9, 2018
@kapouer @MylesBorins
doc: fix manpage warning
79e1260 
LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 MANROFFSEQ='' MANWIDTH=80 man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l -Tutf8 -Z ./doc/node.1 > /dev/null
mdoc warning: Empty input line #389

PR-URL: #20383
Reviewed-By: Tiancheng "Timothy" Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
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