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Asked: 2026-05-25T12:22:51+00:00

I am trying to install NPM on OSX Lion, I run this command: curl

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I am trying to install NPM on OSX Lion, I run this command:

curl https://npmjs.org/install.sh | sudo sh

After asking to type “yes” and I do I get this:

All clean!
! [ -d .git ] || git submodule update --init --recursive
node cli.js rm npm -g -f
node cli.js cache clean
Assertion failed: ((req->result == -1 && req->ptr == NULL) || (req->result >= 0 && req->ptr != NULL)), function uv_fs_req_cleanup, file src/unix/fs.c, line 89.
make: *** [clean] Abort trap: 6
node(21572,0x7fff73d64960) malloc: *** error for object 0x7ff772051000: pointer being freed was not allocated
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
npm-install-20221.sh: line 211: 21572 Abort trap: 6           "$node" cli.js install -gf
It failed

Did some research and couldn’t find anyone else with this exact issue. My node version is v.0.5.7-pre.

EDIT

For those looking how to install npmjs the url has changed to https only (url fixed above).

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yup.

    tjameson is right.

    Install the stable version before installing npm.

    Get the source code directly from node website:

    node-v0.4.11.tar.gz Source Code

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