Doc bug: Debian node.js package has wrong symlink about emsdk HOT 4 CLOSED

Hmm, I wonder if we should do a 'node --version' in sanity checks in Emscripten and complain if we don't find the correct executable there. What does 'node --version' on the wrong package give you versus nodejs --version? Does that give a good differing information that we could test for?

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Unfortunately I'm not getting any useful output of the node executable in the 'node' package. It's a link at '/usr/sbin/node' pointing to '/usr/sbin/ax25-node', starting the program doesn't seem to anything, --version or --help doesn't give any output. The man page says:

NAME
       ax25-node - Node front end for AX.25, NET/ROM, Rose and TCP

SYNOPSIS
       ax25-node [-c]

DESCRIPTION
       ax25-node is a simple node front end, modelled after the node shells of TheNet and G8BPQ nodes.

Googling I found this: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=614907

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Thinking about this, I'm leaning on that on linux, we should just always first search for which nodejs, and if that exists, then use that as node, and if not, then use node. Can anyone think of a reason that could fail?

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Sounds good to me. This doesn't solve the confusing problem with the Debian package naming (node vs nodejs), but at least the right executable would be called without setting a link.

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