Question

So I am trying to install node.js on my server. I have managed to wget and extract the .tar file into a folder, then cd’d into it and used the ‘./configure’ command. I get this error message:

[~/node-v0.8.8]# ./configure  File "./configure", line 325
    o['default_configuration'] = 'Debug' if options.debug else 'Release'
                                          ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

After rigorous googling, I have found out that this is caused by Python and is because of my Python version (which is 2.4).

Now I am trying to update Python, and the installation is working fine, but I’m thinking it’s not installing where it needs to? Because after install, I type python -V and it still says it’s on 2.4

Answer 1

If you’ve make installd a newer version of Python and it’s not reporting the newer version in python -V, then most likely your installation did not go to a place located in your $PATH env var.

I’d suggest reviewing the output of make install to see where it was actually installing the files to, and updating your $PATH to use this new location.