npm install -g mermaid does not install phantomjs

[ssbarnea]

On OS X, if you do a npm install -g mermaid, it will install (0.5.8) but when you try to run it with an imput file you will get an error complaining about Could not find phantomjs at the specified path.

Please note that this error appears only if you give a file to process. If you do just mermaid -v it will return the version without the error.

[Jmuccigr]

Is it supposed to? I just used brew to install v. 1.98 of phatonjs.

[ssbarnea]

I tried the npm install -g [email protected] which seems to be a CPU killer even on i7/16GB/SSD! -- After 3h I decided to kill it! It will never finish.

My impression was that the npm method was the official, multi-platform one.

I tried your approach too, but it fails too

$ brew install homebrew/versions/phantomjs198
==> Tapping homebrew/versions
Cloning into '/usr/local/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-versions'...
remote: Counting objects: 269, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (251/251), done.
remote: Total 269 (delta 35), reused 74 (delta 18), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (269/269), 309.45 KiB | 119.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (35/35), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
Tapped 265 formulae (290 files, 1M)
==> Installing phantomjs198 from homebrew/versions
phantomjs198: This formula either does not compile or function as expected on OS X
versions newer than Yosemite due to an upstream incompatibility.
Error: An unsatisfied requirement failed this build.

[ssbarnea]

Is so hard to make it work with current versions of phantomjs? I had no problem installing the current versions, only the 1.9.x seems to be the problem.

[knsv]

I see no reason why an upgrade should be hard!

It does seem like you have som issue with your node installation though. I have never had problems with node 1.9. I personally use nvm to install node so that it is easy to upgrade to newer node versions:

https://github.com/creationix/nvm

This should be sone however.

[ssbarnea]

I should rename the bug: npm install mermaid fails as it fails to installed the required version of npm. This happens at least on mac with npm 3.6.0.

[ssbarnea]

@Jmuccigr yes it is supposed to install, as any npm package, it can have dependencies, which are installed by npm whenever is needed.

[ssbarnea]

I am not able to replicate the same problem with version 6.0.0 so I am closing this ticket.