Can´t run tldr npm client

[JPRuehmann]

Expected behaviour

tldr should show some information about itself

Actual behaviour

It throws the following.

Log, debug output

tldr                                                                                            ──(So,Nov26)─┘
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/tldr/node_modules/natural/lib/natural/classifiers/classifier.js:32
    if (e.code !== 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND') throw e;
                                       ^

Error: Could not locate the bindings file. Tried:
 → /usr/local/lib/node_modules/tldr/node_modules/webworker-threads/build/WebWorkerThreads.node
 → /usr/local/lib/node_modules/tldr/node_modules/webworker-threads/build/Debug/WebWorkerThreads.node
 → /usr/local/lib/node_modules/tldr/node_modules/webworker-threads/build/Release/WebWorkerThreads.node
 → /usr/local/lib/node_modules/tldr/node_modules/webworker-threads/out/Debug/WebWorkerThreads.node
 → /usr/local/lib/node_modules/tldr/node_modules/webworker-threads/Debug/WebWorkerThreads.node
 → /usr/local/lib/node_modules/tldr/node_modules/webworker-threads/out/Release/WebWorkerThreads.node
 → /usr/local/lib/node_modules/tldr/node_modules/webworker-threads/Release/WebWorkerThreads.node
 → /usr/local/lib/node_modules/tldr/node_modules/webworker-threads/build/default/WebWorkerThreads.node
 → /usr/local/lib/node_modules/tldr/node_modules/webworker-threads/compiled/8.0.0/linux/ia32/WebWorkerThreads.node
    at bindings (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/tldr/node_modules/bindings/bindings.js:93:9)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/tldr/node_modules/webworker-threads/index.js:1:105)
    at Module._compile (module.js:569:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:503:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:466:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:458:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:513:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/tldr/node_modules/natural/lib/natural/classifiers/classifier.js:29:19)

Environment

Kubuntu 16.04 LTS (32Bit)
node -v 9.2.0

[agnivade]

It seems your platform does not support webworker-threads. Can you try the solution here - NaturalNode/natural#368 (comment) ?

[aero31aero]

Didn't anticipate this. Should we move from natural to some other library? The platform in question in Ubuntu 16.04 and latest node, not at all uncommon.

[agnivade]

Its not Ubuntu. I have Ubuntu 16.04 and it works fine. Must be an issue with Kubuntu.

[JPRuehmann]

Kubuntu is Ubuntu just with KDE.
Since TLDR is no X APP there should be nothing different.

[aero31aero]

I tried to recreate this, and turns out that having a different version of node and node-gyp (npm has its own node-gyp) could be creating this issue. Can you please check for that once?

[JPRuehmann]

Thanks,
by
sudo -H npm r -g tldr
sudo -H npm r -g webworker-threads
and
npm i -g node-gyp
npm i -g webworker-threads
npm i -g tldr
it now works.

[agnivade]

Interesting. Then I believe the issue was with node-gyp somehow not being able to pull and compile webworker-threads properly. @JPRuehmann - how did you install node in the first place ?

[JPRuehmann]

sudo apt install nodejs
then
sudo npm i -g n
sudo n stable

[agnivade]

Ah I see. Its always better to download and extract the standard node package. Both the node and npm versions are packaged in it. https://nodejs.org/dist/v9.2.0/node-v9.2.0-linux-x86.tar.xz

[JPRuehmann]

Than I should not use repositories to, I don´t think that is a good Idea.
You should try to never use Software that is not in the Repositories.
Since I often try Software and functions that are not/until now in the repos. I often run in such Problems. Especialy with such complex subsystems as Nodejs, Python or Ruby.

[roccomuso]

I'm having the same issue.. I'm on Ubuntu v16.04.
Btw is the natural module really necessary? native dependencies should be avoided if not strictly necessary.

[agnivade]

Yes it's necessary. Try the method which has worked for @JPRuehmann or you can do a fresh reinstall using the .tar.xz package.

[jpribyl]

Hey guys, I just had this same issue and solved it by reinstalling webworker-threads inside the tldr package. I'm on Elementary Loki (derivative from ubuntu 16.04)

cd /usr/lib/node_modules/tldr/node_modules/
npm install webworker-threads/

[agnivade]

Yes, that was the original solution in the first place.

[gpenghe]

Hello, I am on Ubuntu and had the same issue. It didn't work after trying everything above, including suggestions elsewhere to use a new global directory ~/.npm-global. Then I just did a sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/node_modules/ and bam it works now. So it looks like tldr is still trying to search system node-modules first even after configuring it to use a different one with npm config set prefix '~/.npm-global'

[idleberg]

Same problem here on macOS. The workaround by @jpribyl works for me, but a long-term solution would be preferred.

macOS 10.13.6
Node 10.5.0
npm 6.1.0

[agnivade]

I have just pushed a commit which removes the dependency on webworkers. Will push a new release in some time.

[otterzy]

Can someone help me check my local error log? Thanks in advance.
0 verbose cli C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js
1 info using npm@9.8.1
2 info using node@v18.18.2
3 timing npm:load:whichnode Completed in 3ms
4 timing config:load:defaults Completed in 4ms
5 timing config:load:file:C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\npmrc Completed in 2ms
6 timing config:load:builtin Completed in 2ms
7 timing config:load:cli Completed in 2ms
8 timing config:load:env Completed in 0ms
9 timing config:load:project Completed in 2ms
10 timing config:load:file:C:\Users\zhankram.npmrc Completed in 0ms
11 timing config:load:user Completed in 0ms
12 timing config:load:file:C:\Users\zhankram\AppData\Roaming\npm\etc\npmrc Completed in 0ms
13 timing config:load:global Completed in 1ms
14 timing config:load:setEnvs Completed in 1ms
15 timing config:load Completed in 12ms
16 timing npm:load:configload Completed in 12ms
17 timing config:load:flatten Completed in 2ms
18 timing npm:load:mkdirpcache Completed in 0ms
19 timing npm:load:mkdirplogs Completed in 1ms
20 verbose title npm install tldr
21 verbose argv "install" "--global" "tldr"
22 timing npm:load:setTitle Completed in 1ms
23 timing npm:load:display Completed in 0ms
24 verbose logfile logs-max:10 dir:C:\Users\zhankram\AppData\Local\npm-cache_logs\2023-10-20T07_02_10_064Z-
25 verbose logfile C:\Users\zhankram\AppData\Local\npm-cache_logs\2023-10-20T07_02_10_064Z-debug-0.log
26 timing npm:load:logFile Completed in 15ms
27 timing npm:load:timers Completed in 0ms
28 timing npm:load:configScope Completed in 0ms
29 timing npm:load Completed in 57ms
30 timing config:load:flatten Completed in 0ms
31 timing arborist:ctor Completed in 0ms
32 timing idealTree:init Completed in 31ms
33 timing idealTree:userRequests Completed in 1ms
34 silly idealTree buildDeps
35 silly fetch manifest tldr@*
36 silly logfile done cleaning log files
37 silly placeDep ROOT tldr@ OK for: want: *
38 timing idealTree:#root Completed in 71163ms
39 timing idealTree:node_modules/tldr Completed in 0ms
40 timing idealTree:buildDeps Completed in 71164ms
41 timing idealTree:fixDepFlags Completed in 0ms
42 timing idealTree Completed in 71197ms
43 timing command:install Completed in 71208ms
44 verbose type system
45 verbose stack FetchError: request to https://registry.npmjs.org/tldr failed, reason: unable to verify the first certificate
45 verbose stack at ClientRequest. (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\minipass-fetch\lib\index.js:130:14)
45 verbose stack at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:517:28)
45 verbose stack at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (node:_http_client:501:9)
45 verbose stack at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:529:35)
45 verbose stack at emitErrorNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:151:8)
45 verbose stack at emitErrorCloseNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:116:3)
45 verbose stack at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21)
46 verbose cwd C:\Users\zhankram
47 verbose Windows_NT 10.0.19045
48 verbose node v18.18.2
49 verbose npm v9.8.1
50 error code UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE
51 error errno UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE
52 error request to https://registry.npmjs.org/tldr failed, reason: unable to verify the first certificate
53 verbose exit 1
54 timing npm Completed in 71494ms
55 verbose unfinished npm timer reify 1697785330348
56 verbose unfinished npm timer reify:loadTrees 1697785330357
57 verbose code 1
58 error A complete log of this run can be found in: C:\Users\zhankram\AppData\Local\npm-cache_logs\2023-10-20T07_02_10_064Z-debug-0.log

[kbdharun]

Hello @otterzy,

From the log you provided.

• It is possible that the npm version you are using is outdated, you can try updating it to the latest version.
• It might be an SSL issue if the above step doesn't work try to set another registry.
• If you still face issues, I would suggest checking if your firewall blocks requests to NPM.