I read an article on the newest MagPi about node-red and I decided to install it. I used:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install nodered
The 4th command produces:
E: Unable to locate package nodered
Does anyone know how to install nodered? I am using a Raspberry Pi B+.
The website for this notes on the installation page specifically for the Raspberry Pi that the project was included in the "Jessie" release distribution around November 2015. Did your sudo apt-get dist-upgrade complete correctly - you might want to reboot after that and do another sudo apt-get update to be absolutely sure everything was updated from the "Wheezy" dist to the "Jessie" one - given that this will also change the first process from being the sysV init of the former to the systemd (default) of the latter a reboot is, I think, really a good idea.
My (RPi B+) went straight into the expected with a recent NOOBs + Raspbian:
pi@ulhura ~ $ sudo apt-get install nodered [sudo] password for pi: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libc-ares2 libv8-3.14.5 nodejs nodejs-legacy The following NEW packages will be installed: libc-ares2 libv8-3.14.5 nodejs nodejs-legacy nodered 0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 6,251 kB of archives. After this operation, 6,567 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort.
And the expected output from the release information:
pi@ulhura ~ $ more /etc/*-release PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)" NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="8" VERSION="8 (jessie)" ID=raspbian ID_LIKE=debian HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/" SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums" BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"
If you have nothing of your own construction on the Pi it may be worth replacing the distribution with a fresh install - if you want to avoid having to perform a dist-update that has not so far seems to have happened - but try a reboot first.
You can try installing via npm:
wget http://node-arm.herokuapp.com/node_archive_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i node_archive_armhf.deb
sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev python-rpi.gpio
then:
sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm node-red
Further details can be found here. Note that the linked page contains some info on potential issues with node-gyp.
Perhaps the better solution is to burn a new SD card with Raspbian Jessie, which already includes nodered.