GitBook on FreeBSD?

[Polytropon]

On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 20:32:45 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Friday, October 16, 2015 a las 08:25:02AM -0500, Brandon J. Wandersee escribió:
> 
> > > Is it possible (has someone) to install GitBook locally on FreeBSD, to
> > > do the book rendering to HTML locally? I do not see any port for this.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > 	matthias
> > 
> > There's no port for GitBook, but there is one for npm.
> > 
> > https://www.freshports.org/www/npm/
> 
> Thanks. I have installed www/npm and run:
> 
> $ npm install gitbook-cli -g
> npm ERR! FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT
> npm ERR! argv "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "gitbook-cli" "-g"
> npm ERR! node v0.10.32
> npm ERR! npm  v2.0.2
> npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/gitbook-cli
> npm ERR! code EACCES
> npm ERR! errno 3
> 
> npm ERR! Error: EACCES, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/gitbook-cli'
> npm ERR!  { [Error: EACCES, mkdir
> '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/gitbook-cli']
> npm ERR!   errno: 3,
> npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
> npm ERR!   path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/gitbook-cli',
> npm ERR!   fstream_type: 'Directory',
> npm ERR!   fstream_path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/gitbook-cli',
> npm ERR!   fstream_class: 'DirWriter',
> npm ERR!   fstream_stack: 
> npm ERR!    [
> '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/dir-writer.js:36:23',
> npm ERR!
> '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:46:53',
> npm ERR!      'Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)' ] }
> npm ERR! 
> npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.
> ...
> 
> Is it safe to run this as root?

Not more or less safe than "curl | sudo bash", I'd say. ;-)

On the other hand, couldn't you specify a path local to your user
account (e. g., ~/node_modules) for a local installation of the
gitbook-cli package?

Of course it's a little bit problematic when several package
managers (others than the system's pkg) want to write stuff to
system-level directories. And npm isn't the only example I could
think of...


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