@Runseb Try running an npm cache clean and then retry again

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no:

npm cache clean

npm install gitbook -g

npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/gitbook

npm ERR! Error: failed to fetch from registry: gitbook
npm ERR! at /usr/share/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/get.js:139:12
npm ERR! at cb (/usr/share/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/request.js:31:9)
npm ERR! at Request._callback (/usr/share/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/request.js:136:18)
npm ERR! at Request.callback (/usr/lib/nodejs/request/main.js:119:22)
npm ERR! at Request. (/usr/lib/nodejs/request/main.js:212:58)
npm ERR! at Request.emit (events.js:88:20)
npm ERR! at ClientRequest. (/usr/lib/nodejs/request/main.js:412:12)
npm ERR! at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:67:17)
npm ERR! at HTTPParser.onIncoming (http.js:1261:11)
npm ERR! at HTTPParser.onHeadersComplete (http.js:102:31)
npm ERR! You may report this log at:
npm ERR! http://bugs.debian.org/npm
npm ERR! or use
npm ERR! reportbug --attach /opt/npm-debug.log npm
npm ERR!
npm ERR! System Linux 3.2.0-58-generic
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "gitbook" "-g"
npm ERR! cwd /opt
npm ERR! node -v v0.6.12
npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.4
npm ERR! message failed to fetch from registry: gitbook
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /opt/npm-debug.log
npm not ok

is there a specific version of npm needed ?

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I think you're going to have problems with most node projects with such an outdated version of npm and node. (the node package in ubuntu's repos is known to be outdated).

node v0.6.12 is really really old.

Update to v0.10.26 using this command :

wget -O - http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.26/node-v0.10.26-linux-x64.tar.gz | tar -C /usr/local/ --strip-components=1 -zxv

I use that command to install node on linux machines.

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ok fixed, sorry for the noise.

thanks

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Thanks for this solution. I received "Permission denied" using the one-liner even though I ran it as root. However, I was able to install it by separating the two steps:

wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.26/node-v0.10.26-linux-x64.tar.gz
sudo tar -C /usr/local/ --strip-components=1 -zxvf node-v0.10.26-linux-x64.tar.gz

This was also for 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04.

Lastly, another option is to install it locally and add the directory to PATH. Many options are available here.

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Thanks the above info.

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