I am following the testatcular vide tutorial http://vojtajina.github.com/testacular/.

I installed nodejs and when I tried to install testacular with

sudo npm install -g testacular I get this error :

npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/testacular
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/testacular
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/chokidar
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/minimatch
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/socket.io
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/glob
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/optimist
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/glob
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/socket.io
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/optimist
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/chokidar
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/minimatch

> [email protected] postinstall /usr/local/lib/node_modules/testacular/node_modules/chokidar
> node setup.js postinstall

npm ERR! error installing [email protected]
npm WARN This failure might be due to the use of legacy binary "node" 
npm WARN For further explanations, please read
npm WARN /usr/share/doc/nodejs/README.Debian
npm WARN 
npm ERR! error installing [email protected]

npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, lstat '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/testacular/node_modules/___minimatch.npm/package/minimatch.js'
npm ERR! You may report this log at:
npm ERR!     
npm ERR! or use
npm ERR!     reportbug --attach /home/adio/workspace/java/tutorial/angularJS/npm-debug.log npm
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! System Linux 3.5.0-17-generic
npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "testacular"
npm ERR! cwd /home/adio/workspace/java/tutorial/angularJS
npm ERR! node -v v0.6.19
npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.4
npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/testacular/node_modules/___minimatch.npm/package/minimatch.js
npm ERR! fstream_path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/testacular/node_modules/___minimatch.npm/package/minimatch.js
npm ERR! fstream_type File
npm ERR! fstream_class FileWriter
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! message ENOENT, lstat '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/testacular/node_modules/___minimatch.npm/package/minimatch.js'
npm ERR! errno {}
npm ERR! fstream_stack Object.oncomplete (/usr/lib/nodejs/fstream/lib/writer.js:204:26)
npm ERR! error rolling back [email protected] Error: ENOTEMPTY, rmdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/testacular/node_modules/___glob.npm/package/test'

npm ERR! [email protected] postinstall: `node setup.js postinstall`
npm ERR! `sh "-c" "node setup.js postinstall"` failed with 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the chokidar package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node setup.js postinstall
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls chokidar
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! System Linux 3.5.0-17-generic
npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "testacular"
npm ERR! cwd /home/adio/workspace/java/tutorial/angularJS
npm ERR! node -v v0.6.19
npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.4
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! message [email protected] postinstall: `node setup.js postinstall`
npm ERR! message `sh "-c" "node setup.js postinstall"` failed with 1
npm ERR! errno {}
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/adio/workspace/java/tutorial/angularJS/npm-debug.log
npm not ok

anybody ran into this problem ?

thanks in advance for help.

Let me guess, is it happening on a Win7 machine 64 bits?

I got the same error and it was already reported on testacular github

The only workaround I found was installing node.js 32 bits instead of 64 bits version. I encourage you to post another comment on their github so maybe it will be reconsidered