How to know how I installed Node on macOS? - macos

I know that I have Node installed but I don't remember if I used NVM, Brew or if I downloaded it from the official Node website.
Is there any command I can use to figure out how I installed it in the first place?
Note: I use a zsh shell on macOS

A good indicator is to check where it is installed:
ls -l $(which node)
For brew, this will yield something like
lrwxr-xr-x 1 flyx admin 30 Sep 12 17:02 /usr/local/bin/node -> ../Cellar/node/16.9.1/bin/node
NVM seems to install it somewhere in ~/.nvm but I don't know the specifics. I have no idea what the installer does.

Related

How many vim do I have?

I am on Mac, El Capitan.
Here are my code:
My question is: how many vim do I have? I know that:
/usr/bin/vim is from Mac OSX
/usr/local/bin/vim is from Homebrew
/usr/local/Cellar/vim/xxx/bin/vim is also from Homebrew (?)
Also:
So another question: Which one should I use, if I want to use brew to upgrade it.
You should use the one in /usr/local/bin by making sure your PATH environment variable includes /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin.
If you look carefully, you will see that /usr/local/bin/vim is a symbolic link to homebrew's Cellar and each time you update vim in homebrew it will update the symlink in /usr/local/bin to point to the latest version in its Cellar. So, if you use /usr/local/bin/vim you will always be using the latest.
Let's check that:
ls -l /usr/local/bin/vim
lrwxr-xr-x 1 mark admin 30 21 Jul 18:25 /usr/local/bin/vim -> ../Cellar/vim/7.4.2033/bin/vim
Yes, /usr/local/bin/vim points to /usr/local/Cellar/vim/7.4.2033/bin/vim and that is why you get the same version when you run both commands - because they are the same thing.
The Apple-shipped version is ancient - you don't want that.

How to install Mono on macOS so mono works in terminal?

I'm trying to get a Mono install running on a mac (OS X version 10.10.5), and while the install states that it's completed successfully, I'm not able to call mono from the terminal.
To install it, I ran uninstallMono.sh as root to ensure we didn't have any leftover cruft, then ran MonoFramework-MDK-4.0.4.1.macos10.xamarin.x86.pkg. The installer appeared to complete successfully, but an attempt to call mono returns
-bash: mono: command not found
The mono framework does appear to be installed:
Lees-Mac-Pro:Downloads kevinmack$ cd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Library/Frameworks/
Lees-Mac-Pro:Frameworks kevinmack$ ls -l
total 32
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 71 Jan 20 2015 AEProfiling.framework -> ../../Applications/Motion.app/Contents/Frameworks/AEProfiling.framework
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 74 Jan 20 2015 AERegistration.framework -> ../../Applications/Motion.app/Contents/Frameworks/AERegistration.framework
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 74 Jan 20 2015 AudioMixEngine.framework -> ../../Applications/Motion.app/Contents/Frameworks/AudioMixEngine.framework
drwxr-xr-x 8 root admin 272 Sep 12 11:24 Mono.framework
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 60 Sep 9 22:16 NyxAudioAnalysis.framework -> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/NyxAudioAnalysis.framework
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 Jan 20 2015 PluginManager.framework
drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 272 Sep 9 22:19 iTunesLibrary.framework
...but it isn't present in /usr/bin and attempting to find its executable using which mono returns nothing.
In OS X El Capitan, run the following in Terminal to support mono command
export PATH=/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/bin/:${PATH}
Update (since this is still getting views two+ years later):
The latest versions of Mono (5.x) installation process creates a file (mono-commands) in /etc/paths.d that contains the path of:
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/Commands
So /usr/local/bin is no longer used...
Original
Newer versions of mono comply to the "El Capitan" requirements of not installing anything into /usr/bin and thus now /usr/local/bin is used. I am not sure which mono 4.x release that started in...
But I would assume that you do not have /usr/local/bin in your path(?), try:
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:${PATH}
which mono
which mcs
In my case, I have 4.2.0 installed:
$ which mono
/usr/local/bin/mono
$ which mcs
/usr/local/bin/mcs
$ mono --version
Mono JIT compiler version 4.2.0 (explicit/2701b19 Mon Aug 31 09:57:28 EDT 2015)
Copyright (C) 2002-2014 Novell, Inc, Xamarin Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
$ cat `which mcs`
#!/bin/sh
export PATH=$PATH:/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/4.2.0/bin
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/External/pkgconfig:/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/4.2.0/lib/pkgconfig:/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/4.2.0/share/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
exec /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/4.2.0/bin/mono $MONO_OPTIONS /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/4.2.0/lib/mono/4.5/mcs.exe "$#"
It is better to use the next export:
export PATH=$PATH:/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/bin/
You don't modify the previous order of PATH (It's very
important!!)
You will use the current version (when update
the version it isn't necessary to change the variable PATH)
Another option (best option) is to include a new line at the end of the file /etc/paths with the content:
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/bin
In this case, the path will be available for all users on the system.
After the first installation of Mono Framework using brew cask I found out that brew itself offers Mono (!)
I uninstalled Mono first.
$ brew cask uninstall mono-mdk
And installed it using brew install mono and removed all the configuration changes in ~/.zshrc.
Looks like it's much nicer:
$ type mono
mono is /usr/local/bin/mono
$ mono --version
Mono JIT compiler version 4.6.2 (Stable 4.6.2.7/08fd525 Tue Nov 22 22:05:18 GMT 2016)
Copyright (C) 2002-2014 Novell, Inc, Xamarin Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
TLS: normal
SIGSEGV: altstack
Notification: kqueue
Architecture: amd64
Disabled: none
Misc: softdebug
LLVM: supported, not enabled.
GC: sgen
I first used brew cask to install Mono Framework and had to add /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Home/bin to PATH environment variable.
$ brew cask info mono-mdk
mono-mdk: 4.6.2.7
http://www.mono-project.com/
Not installed
From: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/mono-mdk.rb
==> Name
Mono
==> Artifacts
MonoFramework-MDK-4.6.2.7.macos10.xamarin.universal.pkg (pkg)
➜ kafunk git:(master) brew cask install mono-mdk
==> Downloading https://download.mono-project.com/archive/4.6.2/macos-10-universal/MonoFramework-MDK-4.6.2.7.macos10.xamarin.universal.pkg
######################################################################## 100,0%
==> Verifying checksum for Cask mono-mdk
==> Running installer for mono-mdk; your password may be necessary.
==> Package installers may write to any location; options such as --appdir are ignored.
Password:
==> installer: Package name is Mono Framework
==> installer: Installing at base path /
==> installer: The install was successful.
🍺 mono-mdk was successfully installed!
Since I use oh-my-zsh I defined MONO_HOME in ~/.zshrc and adjusted PATH accordingly:
export MONO_HOME=/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Home
export PATH=$MONO_HOME/bin:$PATH
With that mono is available:
$ mono --version
Mono JIT compiler version 4.6.2 (mono-4.6.0-branch/08fd525 Thu Nov 10 20:28:28 EST 2016)
Copyright (C) 2002-2014 Novell, Inc, Xamarin Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
TLS: normal
SIGSEGV: altstack
Notification: kqueue
Architecture: x86
Disabled: none
Misc: softdebug
LLVM: yes(3.6.0svn-mono-master/8b1520c)
GC: sgen
I've been watching this page because I too had problems with installing Mono (for the first time) on El Capitan. I found the framework was installed but the commands were not put into the /usr/local/bin. Symlinking them didn't seem to work because I would get errors when trying to use the mono command and it was looking for libraries in the wrong place.
What I finally found worked (by trial and error) was setting $PATH to the Mono framework using the command in terminal:
export PATH=/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/4.2.0/bin/:${PATH}
Since I'm not a programmer or coder (at least not for a long time and never on OS X), this allowed me to run Duplicati using mono (which was why I wanted it in the first place), but I'm not sure if this is the correct way to solve this or even if this should be done at all. Anyone with actual programming experience to comment or clarify?
El Capitan now protects certain system directories in "rootless" mode (a.k.a. System Integrity Protection). If you run the command ls -lO /System/Library/LaunchDaemons you'll see that the directories and files under there are now marked as "restricted."
You can disable rootless mode like this:
Reboot into recovery mode (reboot and hold down Cmd-R)
Open a terminal
Use this command: csrutil disable
Reboot and run the command that worked prior to El Capitan
Install Mono latest version.
When you're done, it is highly recommended that you re-enable SIP by following the same steps, but using csrutil enable in step 3.
I ran into a problem with the same root cause while trying to get pear/pecl modules and macports/homebrew apps installed. Those typically need to install files into /usr/include and /usr/lib, which are also now restricted.
Note: Previous answers around the Internet about this problem give you instructions for modifying NVRAM settings, but Apple stated that the NVRAM method would stop working with El Capitan's public release. The GM release has already disabled the NVRAM workaround, so this answer should get you what you need moving forward.
open .bash_profile
add export PATH=$PATH:/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/Commands to it
done!
try installing the older version.
3.4.0 is working for me OSX (10.10.5)..
http://origin-download.mono-project.com/archive/3.4.0/macos-10-x86/
Quick Summary:
Atm, the mono framework installer only works correctly if you install it to root. It will automatically add /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/Commands to $PATH, but I don't know if you will need to add /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/bin/ by hand or if everything just works. (Commands is a symbolic link to bin, but it still may not work)
More in-depth:
I recently installed mono from MonoFramework-MDK-4.8.0.520.macos10.xamarin.universal.pkg. I installed it to /Volumes/osxapps/ instead of root, but the installation still expected everything to be in root. It added /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/Commands to $PATH but everything in /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/ was just empty directories. All the files resided in /Volumes/osxapps/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/.
Furthermore, a lot of what was in /Volumes/osxapps/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/ including Commands were not folders but symbolic links that didn't work because they expected the folders to be in root. For example: If everything were installed in root,
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/Commands is a symlink to /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/bin and /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/ is also a symlink.
I added:
export PATH="/Volumes/osxapps/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/4.8.0/bin:$PATH"
to .bash_profile, in ~/, which allowed me to run the commands/executables, but they all died with errors because they were still expecting things to be in root.
So I copied the folder from /Volumes/osxapps/Library/Frameworks to /Library/Frameworks/ and that solved all the errors and things are working properly but now I have two copies of Mono.framework and I didn't want it installed in root in the first place, because root is on an ssd, and space is limited.
A better solution would be to uninstall mono according to the instructions at bottom of this page and then reinstall on root.
However, it would still be better, for me, to install on /Volumes/osxapps/, but I don't know the best way to go about doing that. (I could probably just recreate a bunch of symbolic links). I was going to tell the mono-project that their installer mucks everything up if you don't install to root, but I'm not sure the best way to go about doing that either. So, instead I have posted here, with what I have learned so far, in the hope that it could help someone else.

How to do alternative install of Homebrew

Ok, well it's just been one of those nights where you spend hours and hours trying to get something to work, and you just keep getting weird errors, so if someone could help me I would greatly appreciate. After hours of trying to update Maven from 3.0.4 to 3.1.1 or 3.2.2 I've decided it's just not going to happen (I've tried almost everything I can find online, but I'm afraid to try to do to much in terminal) and I'm trying to install homebrew to make it easier. When I try to do the normal homebrew install I get an error that says:
dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: ___strlcpy_chk
Referenced from: /usr/local/git/bin/git
Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
dyld: Symbol not found: ___strlcpy_chk
Referenced from: /usr/local/git/bin/git
Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
Failed during: git init -q
So then, I tried to do the alternative install method, but at this point I'm just so annoyed, and I don't get what it wants me to do. If anyone could give me some at least kind of detailed explanation for what to do I would be extremely grateful.
Here's where I'm looking at alternative installs: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/wiki/Installation
The problem is I don't even really know what they mean by "untar" and "extract."
Thanks so much to anyone who can help
When I enter
ls -l /usr/local | pbcopy
I get:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 68 Aug 11 03:34 apache-maven
drwxrwxr-x 81 root admin 2754 Jan 17 2014 bin
drwxrwxr-x 3 root admin 102 Feb 21 2013 etc
drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 306 Jul 25 14:54 git
drwxrwxr-x 3 root admin 102 Feb 21 2013 lib
drwxrwxr-x 4 root admin 136 Feb 20 2013 share
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Dec 14 2013 texlive
Edited
Ok, so let's do an alternative install of homebrew:
cd /usr/local
mkdir homebrew
curl -L https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/tarball/master | tar xz --strip 1 -C homebrew
If that works, you just need to find the directory where the file brew is located and then add that to your PATH
So
find /usr/local -name brew
Let's suppose the previous command results in
/usr/local/homebrew/bin/brew
we take brew off the end (because we want to know its directory only) and we add that to the start of our PATH
export PATH=/usr/local/homebrew/bin:$PATH
Now we should be able to run
brew doctor
Also, we need to add that export PATH=.... command to our login sequence so our shell knows how to find brew every time we login. So add that line to the end of your ~/.profile
Original Answer
Ok, take a deep breath, and relax :-)
homebrew is a great choice on the Mac, so the pain should be worth it. I suspect you have a customised PATH and customised environment variables which are stopping the homebrew installation. You can either set your PATH and environment variables back to their default settings, or, if that is simpler, just add a new user to your Mac and log in as the new user with a standard environment and then install homebrew using the standard method.
To look at your PATH and environment variables, use these commands:
echo $PATH
set
or
set | grep -i LIB
to look for any customised DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
Once you have it installed, try running
brew doctor
to check your setup before adding maven and other packages.

npm command not found after restart

The npm command keeps becoming unrecognised after a computer restart:
-bash: npm: command not found
The node command still works fine, it's just npm that's not working. I have to reinstall Node.js from the main site to get it working again.
~/bin is added to my $PATH in my .bash_profile with:
export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
Edit: I'm also using the full mathiasbynens/dotfiles which manages its own version, I wonder if there's a conflict here.
According to nvm readme file, try to run this once:
nvm alias default stable
This will set a default Node version to be used in any new shell.
I have no explanation, but a few pointers:
As #LaurentPerrin states, node (via its official installer package) installs to /usr/local/bin.
(Why do you mention ~/bin?)
Note that different rules apply if you use user-level installs via node.js version manager nvm, in which case [symlinks to] executables are placed in ~/.nvm/v{version}/bin
Thus, the node executable should be /usr/local/bin/node.
Is this (only) what you see when you run which -a node?
The node executable is placed directly in /usr/local/bin, whereas npm is merely a symlink that points to /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js, which is an executable node script with shebang line #!/usr/bin/env node.
When you run
ls -l /usr/local/bin/npm
you should see something like
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 38 Dec 13 11:52 /usr/local/bin/npm -> \
../lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js
See if the symlink exists and points to the right file.
If that still doesn't work, try to invoke npm-cli.js directly and see what happens (this should show npm's command-line help):
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js help
On OSX, node is installed to /usr/local/bin, which needs to be in your path. Edit /edit/paths as root (sudo nano /etc/paths) and make sure it is on the first line. It should look like this:
/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
Then you can force bash to refresh paths by running: source /etc/profile.
I was having the same problem (on OSX). Not sure if this is the solution for you, but I ended up finding npm here:
.nvm/v0.10.22/bin
or, based on your version
.nvm/v0.10.21/bin
Then I just printed my working directory and added that to my path. So for me, when I opened terminal:
cd .nvm/v0.10.22/bin
pwd
>> /path/to/.nvm/v0.10.22/bin
Hope that helps.
I use nvm to install node.js. I solve it by adding $HOME/.nvm/v0.10.25/bin to $PATH. So the problem is that the path can not be found.
I have the same problem. My solution is use sudo .... My guess this is because of the permission problem.

SVN client for Fedora 17 and nautilus

I'm Fedora 17 linux user and I've searched a good alternative to RabbitVCS for SVN eg.
15.0.5 version witch it's not very stable for my FC17 box. My last choice is nautilus-action-scrips.
Can sombody help me with some choises for Gnome 3 ?
You can use RapidSVN
sudo yum install rapidsvn
Alternatively you can download the source from here and build yourself

Resources