Scripting News: Installing the latest River5

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Monday April 16, 2018; 10:33 AM EDT

Installing the latest River5#

There have been a couple of reports of trouble installing the latest River5, both having to do with the iconv package, which is a relatively new addition to River5. Here's the latest report.#
I don't know what the problem is, I had no problems installing it on my Mac or on a Linux server. #
When I have trouble with NPM, this is what I do:#

Delete the node_modules folder and do an npm install. #
If that doesn't work, clear NPM's cache, delete the node_modules folder and do an npm install. #

What's unusual about iconv is that it's written in C, and as part of the npm install process it needs to compile it to machine code. #
I am anything but an expert in NPM problems, that's why I'm raising a flag here on Scripting News. #
Update: I think Anton got to the bottom of it. Some systems have it set up so that you can't run downloaded stuff without modifying permissions. #

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