Running getpapers produces nothing, not even with --help

[Mick Watson]

I am on Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install node
sudo apt-get install npm
sudo npm install --global getpapers

All of the above finish without errors. Then:

getpapers

Nothing

getpapers --help

Nothing

What's happening?

[Rik]

@mw55309 the problem is ubuntu's node installation creates all kinds of path and permissions mess. For any node tool, I recommend starting with a userspace node version manager. You should basically never need sudo for node things.

To clean up the mess you might want to:

sudo apt-get -y remove node npm

Then install nvm in user space:

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.2/install.sh | bash

Open a new shell session, or source ~/.bash_profile, then install the latest long-term-supported node version and getpapers:

nvm install --lts
npm install --global getpapers
getpapers --help

[Mick Watson]

Awesome this worked :-)

[Rik]

great! just made this so we can link to it from every node command-line tool, and avoid this in the future: https://github.com/blahah/installing-node-tools