Install failing: Command failed: /usr/local/bin/git checkout 5f0b3799f50944bc4d1eb58acdef61c38883d6cf about markserv

[xocasdashdash]

i managed to fix this issue by downgrading to node 7 and npm 4

[sainiaditi]

try
npm install npm -g
then do
npm install -g markserv

[Sarafian]

@dwieeb I'm trying to follow your workaround but I get the same error. This is what I do and I'm no expert with node.

In C:\Users\asarafian\Building MarkServ I've downloaded

• https://github.com/LearnBoost/websocket.io/archive/5f0b3799f50944bc4d1eb58acdef61c38883d6cf.zip
• https://github.com/F1LT3R/markserv/archive/master.zip

Then extracted respectively to their own directory with the module name and made sure the root of the contents are within each folder.

• C:\Users\asarafian\Building MarkServ\websocket.io
• C:\Users\asarafian\Building MarkServ\markserv

From inside C:\Users\asarafian\Building MarkServ\websocket.io I executed:

1. npm install
2. npm link

From inside C:\Users\asarafian\Building MarkServ\markserv I executed:

1. npm link websocket.io that verifies with

C:\Users\asarafian\Building MarkServ\markserv\node_modules\websocket.io -> C:\Users\asarafian\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\websocket.io -> C:\Users\asarafian\Building MarkServ\websocket.io

2. npm install which fails with the same error

908 silly resolveWithNewModule [email protected] checking installable status
909 silly fetchPackageMetaData error for websocket.io@git://github.com/LearnBoost/websocket.io.git#5f0b3799f50944bc4d1eb58acdef61c38883d6cf Command failed: C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.EXE checkout 5f0b3799f50944bc4d1eb58acdef61c38883d6cf
909 silly fetchPackageMetaData fatal: reference is not a tree: 5f0b3799f50944bc4d1eb58acdef61c38883d6cf
910 verbose stack Error: Command failed: C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.EXE checkout 5f0b3799f50944bc4d1eb58acdef61c38883d6cf
910 verbose stack fatal: reference is not a tree: 5f0b3799f50944bc4d1eb58acdef61c38883d6cf
910 verbose stack
910 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:270:12)
910 verbose stack     at emitTwo (events.js:125:13)
910 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:213:7)
910 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:927:16)
910 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:211:5)

From the top of the log file the node and npm versions are:

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ 'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe',
1 verbose cli   'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js',
1 verbose cli   'install' ]
2 info using [email protected]
3 info using [email protected]

Unfortunately I can't downgrade to previous versions.

[imhoffd]

More info:

I tried to git clone [email protected]:LearnBoost/websocket.io.git and then git fetch origin 5f0b3799f50944bc4d1eb58acdef61c38883d6cf, but got the error:

error: Server does not allow request for unadvertised object 5f0b3799f50944bc4d1eb58acdef61c38883d6cf

Workaround:

I instead downloaded a zip (https://github.com/LearnBoost/websocket.io/archive/5f0b3799f50944bc4d1eb58acdef61c38883d6cf.zip), did npm install, npm link, cloned markserv locally and did npm link websocket.io, npm install, npm link and I have the markserv binary globally.

Lots of work, but worth it for this useful tool.

@F1LT3R please consider ditching websocket.io for ws or something.

[matchavez]

+1 install failure. Is this abandoned?

[imhoffd]

FWIW I use grip now https://github.com/joeyespo/grip

[Sarafian]

@dwieeb problem with anything that depends on github API is throttling. I used MarkdownPS to easily generate markdown pages from PowerShell and then serve them for multiple people. GitHub API based solutions quickly run into the throttling issue.

[F1LT3R]

Will try and get to this asap.

[petulla]

This repo works with @tuvistavie's fork.

npm install https://github.com/tuvistavie/markserv.git -g

[F1LT3R]

This should be fixed now. Apologies for the wait.

• Changes are in Master
• Published to NPM

Could you npm install -g markserv and let me know if it's behaving correctly for you too?