NPM fails to install Socket.io does it need x-server?

Question

I was trying to install socket.io on my linux server using NPM

root@camdev01-dev:# npm install socket.io

(npm:22742): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

OS:ubuntu.11.10 server

Answer 1

Here is a quick how to for installing npm on Ubuntu, or any variant of UNIX for that matter

$ `curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh`

It is that simple!

So you want to check out the code from git and compile it yourself? Then follow these steps:

$ `git clone https://github.com/isaacs/npm`
$ `cd npm`
$ sudo make install

Now you can install interesting stuff like socket.io

$ npm install socket.io

X-server is not a dependency package of Socket.io...

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