postinstall.js script throws error on windows -- vault does not install

[Bobbie Tables]

I tried to install vault on windows via cmd line npm install -g vault. Everything is cool until postinstall.js is run. This file only outputs a warning about upgrading, so to get around the issue, I cloned the repo, removed the postinstall call from the package.json "scripts" section, then ran npm install locally. This worked. Just wanted to let you know.

[James Coglan]

Thanks. I guess this is because it uses #!/usr/bin/env node instead of node postinstall in the scripts section, and Windows doesn't know how to execute it. The script will probably be gone in the next release anyway.

[Ryan Riley]

I'm still getting the same issue, though you may not have released a new version yet. In case it helps, here's the output:

$ npm install -g vault
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/vault
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/vault
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/pw
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/ssh-agent
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/posix-argv-parser
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/vault-cipher
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/posix-argv-parser
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/pw
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/ssh-agent
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/vault-cipher
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/ctype/0.5.0
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/posix-getopt/1.0.0
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/ctype/0.5.0
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/ctype/-/ctype-0.5.0.tgz
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/posix-getopt/1.0.0
npm http GET https://github.com/cujojs/when/tarball/1.3.0
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/posix-getopt/-/posix-getopt-1.0.0.tgz
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/ctype/-/ctype-0.5.0.tgz
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/posix-getopt/-/posix-getopt-1.0.0.tgz
npm http 200 https://github.com/cujojs/when/tarball/1.3.0
C:\Users\Ryan\AppData\Roaming\npm\vault -> C:\Users\Ryan\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\vault\bin\vault

> vault@0.3.0 postinstall C:\Users\Ryan\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\vault
> ./node/scripts/postinstall

'.' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
npm ERR! vault@0.3.0 postinstall: `./node/scripts/postinstall`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the vault@0.3.0 postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the vault package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     ./node/scripts/postinstall
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls vault
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! System Windows_NT 6.2.9200
npm ERR! command "c:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "c:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "-g" "vault"
npm ERR! cwd C:\Users\Ryan
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.25
npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.24
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\Ryan\npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

If I do the same locally with v0.4.0 without removing postInstall, I get:

C:\Users\Ryan\Code\vault [master]> npm install -g
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/ssh-agent
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/pw
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/posix-argv-parser
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/vault-cipher
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/async
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/mkdirp
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/ssh-agent
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/pw
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/vault-cipher
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/posix-argv-parser
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/mkdirp
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/posix-argv-parser/-/posix-argv-parser-1.0.0.tgz
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/async
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/async/-/async-0.2.10.tgz
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/posix-argv-parser/-/posix-argv-parser-1.0.0.tgz
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/async/-/async-0.2.10.tgz
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/ctype/0.5.0
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/posix-getopt/1.0.0
npm http GET https://github.com/cujojs/when/tarball/1.8.1
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/ctype/0.5.0
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/posix-getopt/1.0.0
npm http 200 https://github.com/cujojs/when/tarball/1.8.1
C:\Users\Ryan\AppData\Roaming\npm\vault -> C:\Users\Ryan\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\vault\bin\vault

> vault@0.4.0 postinstall C:\Users\Ryan\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\vault
> ./node/scripts/postinstall

'.' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
npm ERR! vault@0.4.0 postinstall: `./node/scripts/postinstall`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the vault@0.4.0 postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the vault package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     ./node/scripts/postinstall
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls vault
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! System Windows_NT 6.2.9200
npm ERR! command "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "-g"
npm ERR! cwd C:\Users\Ryan\Code\vault
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.25
npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.24
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\Ryan\Code\vault\npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0