I'm running Ubuntu 13.04, after installing using:
$ sudo npm install -g coffee-script
..with output..
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/coffee-script
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/coffee-script
/usr/local/bin/coffee -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/coffee-script/bin/coffee
/usr/local/bin/cake -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/coffee-script/bin/cake
[email protected] /usr/local/lib/node_modules/coffee-script
No commands yields any result, whatsoever:
$ coffee js.coffee
$ coffee -v
$ coffee GiveMeSomeCoffeePlease
I verified that it exists:
$ which coffee
/usr/local/bin/coffee
And the file has some contents:
$ cat `which coffee`
#!/usr/bin/env node
var path = require('path');
var fs = require('fs');
var lib = path.join(path.dirname(fs.realpathSync(__filename)), '../lib');
require(lib + '/coffee-script/command').run();
Also tried version 1.6.1 which works on my laptop. No difference on this computer though. Any ideas?
I finally found the solution. I had installed the package node on Ubuntu, which is something entirely different:
Amateur Packet Radio Node program (transitional package) The existing node package has been renamed to ax25-node. This transitional package exists to ease the upgrade path for existing users.
I went ahead and installed the nodejs package. But seems it didn't quite create the right binding anyway, I could run nodejs but not node. So I made an alias for it and now CoffeeScript is running just fine!
cd /usr/bin; sudo ln -s nodejs node