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I'm trying to use npm on my Raspberry Pi under Debian testing (Jessie). When I perform a command like:

 npm install -dnpm express

I get the error message: 

Illegal instruction

This seems to be an error in the package. I tried to install the current version from http://nodejs.org/ manually, but I get the same message. What does that mean and what can I do?

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  • Shouldn't the command be npm install -dnpm express? or just npm install express? or most likely sudo npm install -g express – Steve Robillard Apr 19 '14 at 20:32
  • @SteveRobillard Absolutely, I corrected that, this error is the same. – user5950 Apr 20 '14 at 17:09
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    Ths seems to be a known bug called the illegal exception bomb. This site claims to habe a solution schrankmonster.de/2014/03/22/… but I have not tried it myself. – Steve Robillard Apr 20 '14 at 17:38
  • It seemed to work at first, but now I have the error again. – user5950 Apr 21 '14 at 1:42
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These two commands will install a recent ARM architecture supporting version of node and npm. Make sure to start a new session or use the bash command to use the new node and npm path variables.

wget http://node-arm.herokuapp.com/node_latest_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i node_latest_armhf.deb
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