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Fox
Fox

Reputation: 11

/usr/bin/node: 1: Syntax error: ")" unexpected

I'm trying to install npm live-server on wsl (windows subsystem for linux)

after i install nodejs and npm with:

sudo apt install nodejs npm

and try to install live-server with npm:

npm install live-server

I get this error:

/usr/bin/node: 1: Syntax error: ")" unexpected

and not only when installing live-server.. it return this error on any npm command for example:

npm -v

how can i fix it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4941

Answers (5)

eunseo
eunseo

Reputation: 1

The same problem happened to me as you, my environment is WSL1+ubuntu2404,follow this Official ubuntu tutorial for developing on wsl with ubuntu, I installed nodejs and npm, and when I typed ‘npm install’, I was prompted with /usr/bin/node: 1: Syntax error: ’(” unexpected; by coincidence I opened the vscode's tutorial, and after typing in the commands for installing nodejs and npm from that tutorial, it worked fine!You can try it too

sudo apt-get update
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_lts.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Upvotes: 0

Nico
Nico

Reputation: 151

Installing the pre-built binary, resolved the issue for me:

Downloading from: https://nodejs.org/en/download/prebuilt-binaries

unxz node-v22.12.0-linux-x64.tar.xz
tar -xvf node-v22.12.0-linux-x64.tar --strip-components=1 -C /usr/

credits: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1524639/usr-bin-node-cant-run-due-to-an-exec-format-error

Upvotes: 0

mrtnmgs
mrtnmgs

Reputation: 1562

I had this issue on Ubuntu (in WSL) when running npm after having installed the latest node with nvm install node (23.1.0). Seems related to that particular version, I deinstalled with nvm uninstall node, then installed latest LTS with nvm install --lts and all is fine.

Upvotes: 3

Ivan Petrov
Ivan Petrov

Reputation: 11

There was a problem solved in this way

nvm install node
nvm use node

Upvotes: 1

George Ckito
George Ckito

Reputation: 36

Assuming you use ubuntu:

The version of Node.js included with Ubuntu, version 10.19, is unsupported. You should not use this version in production.

Here is a good tutorial of how to install nodejs from DigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-node-js-on-ubuntu-20-04

  1. cd ~
  2. curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x -o /tmp/nodesource_setup.sh
  3. sudo bash /tmp/nodesource_setup.sh
  4. sudo apt install nodejs

Upvotes: 1

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