Get errors on installation of protractor

Question

I am trying to install protractor, following this guide:

    https://angular.github.io/protractor/#/

On ubuntu in a shell, I typed: sudo npm install -g protractor

There is a whole bunch of info telling if the installation of some specific packages went good or not. Here I am getting some error on some packages. I have added the errors, and not added the ones that went well. Anyone has any idea on how to fix this problem.

Thanks for any help you can provide

   /bin/sh: 1: node: not found
    gyp: Call to 'node -e "require('nan')"' returned exit status 127. while trying to load binding.gyp
    gyp ERR! configure error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/share/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:431:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:797:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 3.13.0-53-generic
gyp ERR! command "nodejs" "/usr/bin/node-gyp" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/node_modules/ws/node_modules/bufferutil
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.25
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.10.10
gyp ERR! not ok 
npm WARN This failure might be due to the use of legacy binary "node"
npm WARN For further explanations, please read
/usr/share/doc/nodejs/README.Debian

npm WARN optional dep failed, continuing [email protected]
/bin/sh: 1: node: not found
gyp: Call to 'node -e "require('nan')"' returned exit status 127. while trying to load binding.gyp
gyp ERR! configure error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/share/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:431:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:797:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 3.13.0-53-generic
gyp ERR! command "nodejs" "/usr/bin/node-gyp" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/node_modules/ws/node_modules/utf-8-validate
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.25
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.10.10
gyp ERR! not ok 
npm WARN This failure might be due to the use of legacy binary "node"
npm WARN For further explanations, please read
/usr/share/doc/nodejs/README.Debian

npm WARN optional dep failed, continuing [email protected]
/usr/local/bin/webdriver-manager -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/bin/webdriver-manager
/usr/local/bin/protractor -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/bin/protractor
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Answer 1

On Ubuntu, the Node command is actually 'nodejs' whereas the Protractor installer is looking for 'node'.

Try running this:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node

And then re-running the Protractor installation

sudo npm install -g protractor