npm install failed about websocket-node HOT 7 CLOSED

I tried
sudo ./npm install [email protected]

And seems successfully installed, hope this help others. haven't test it with any js at the moment. will update if errors found later.

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Oh, it seems not able to find the module websocket in JS

./npm list
/home/roger/node-v0.8.8-linux-x64/bin
├─┬ [email protected]
│ ├── [email protected]
│ └─┬ [email protected]
│ ├─┬ [email protected]
│ │ ├── [email protected]
│ │ └─┬ [email protected]
│ │ └── [email protected]
│ └── [email protected]
└── [email protected]

module.js:340
throw err;
^
Error: Cannot find module 'websocket'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
at Module.require (module.js:362:17)
at require (module.js:378:17)
at Object. (/home/roger/node-v0.8.8-linux-x64/js/websocketserver.js:2:23)
at Module._compile (module.js:449:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:467:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.runMain (module.js:492:10)

Any help...?

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I installed in ubuntu12:
/node-v0.8.8-linux-x64/

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I test it with a single line JS file.

var WebSocketServer = require('websocket').server;

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case closed, just need to setup NODE_PATH

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This is all because of a combination of two things:
1.) You didn't install node.js in the default system-wide location. That would have made your life much easier. Alternatively, if you don't want it installed system-wide, but still want the convenience of using multiple node versions and keeping them separated, look at using "nvm" to install Node.
2.) From the way you were running the npm command, you weren't using it correctly. You appear to have been running npm from within the directory where node's binaries are installed. That's not right. What you have to understand about node's package manager is that, unlike other package managers such as from python, ruby, and perl, node packages are never installed "system-wide" unless you explicitly pass the "-g" flag to npm. Even then, the majority of them are not designed to be installed system-wide. You run "npm install websocket" from within your individual project directory, and npm will install the module at the current version into that project. You have to install every module you need into every project directory that uses it. That allows you to avoid version conflicts entirely. You can automate the process by creating a "package.json" file in your project directory that lists all its dependencies, and then you can just run "npm install" and it'll recursively install all the module dependencies into the current project directory.

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Really thank you, that clarify a lot of things for me.

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