"/usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory" error building *atom-shell* branch with Debian-ish Node.js package installed

[kenny-evitt]

This just came up in a thread in the discussion group.

This is a known Node.js 'issue' too. The Debian package is behind the Node.js releases because the relevant Debian maintainers are also maintaining other dependent packages that will break when Node.js is upgraded.

These instructions on installing Node.js on Debian or Ubuntu (or related) should probably be followed instead of installing Node.js via package manager.

[kenny-evitt]

I just ran into this again; this worked for me on an Ubuntu 14.04 computer:

sudo apt-get install nodejs
sudo apt-get install npm
sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy

The last package symlinks nodejs (which is what the node command is named in the first package) as node.

[kenny-evitt]

Someone just reported this on Gitter with a slightly different error message:

usr/bin/env: node: no file or directory exists