Installed purs globally and purs.bin runs, but not link to bin directory

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#1

On RHEL 8 I have installed purescript via

npm install -g purs

using an npm prefix of /data/sw/npm.

purs.bin gets installed (into /data/sw/npm/lib/node_modules/purs/node_modules/purescript/purs.bin), but not linked to the bin directory /data/sw/npm.

Why’s that?

ps: Other npm packages get properly linked into /data/sw/npm, even spago is linked properly into the bin dir.

System info

item version
purs version 0.12.5
node version 14.17.3
npm version 6.14
RHEL version 8.3
#2

Not sure whether this is relevant or not, but does this still occur if you install the latest PureScript package (i.e. v0.14.5)?

#3

Thanks for chiming in @JordanMartinez.

I didn’t do anything special to get not the latest version, just npm install -g purs.

npm installed v0.12.5. Any idea why it didn’t install v0.14? Is v0.14 maybe not a stable public version?

#4

You should npm install -g purescript, not npm install -g purs. The latest purs version in npm is 0.12.5 (and it fails to install with my npm). Maybe it should be removed / updated @JordanMartinez?

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#5

Super thanks! npm install -g purescript worked!

So after that, how do I install spago? The same way as the doco says: npm install -g spago?

#6

Yes, that should work.

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#7

The purs package isn’t under our control.

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#8

Oh I see. Unfortunate naming then.

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#9

BTW, I just checked: The Getting Started Guide in the doco does say “npm install -g purescript”, so it was a very coincidental Freudian mistake that I typed “npm install -g purs” and thought it were correct…

Thanks for the clarifications!

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