errors installing serialport

[Kodie425]

Jessie 8.0 Raspberry Pi B // why not work ? I googled many links and tried many things, nothing works, help!

root@raspberrypi:/home/pi/opkg# npm install serialport
/
> serialport@4.0.1 install /home/pi/node_modules/serialport
> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build

node-pre-gyp ERR! Tried to download: https://github.com/EmergingTechnologyAd ... arm.tar.gz
node-pre-gyp ERR! Pre-built binaries not found for serialport@4.0.1 and node@0.10.29 (node-v11 ABI) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp)
make: Entering directory '/home/pi/node_modules/serialport/build'
CXX(target) Release/obj.target/serialport/src/serialport.o
In file included from ../src/./serialport.h:7:0,
from ../src/serialport.cpp:1:
../../nan/nan.h:324:47: error: ‘REPLACE_INVALID_UTF8’ is not a member of ‘v8::String’
static const unsigned kReplaceInvalidUtf8 = v8::String::REPLACE_INVALID_UTF8;
^
serialport.target.mk:84: recipe for target 'Release/obj.target/serialport/src/serialport.o' failed
make: *** [Release/obj.target/serialport/src/serialport.o] Error 1
make: Leaving directory '/home/pi/node_modules/serialport/build'
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/share/node-gyp/lib/build.js:267:23)
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:809:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.4.19-v7+
gyp ERR! command "nodejs" "/usr/bin/node-gyp" "build" "--fallback-to-build" "--module=/home/pi/node_modules/serialport/build/Release/serialport.node" "--module_name=serialport" "--module_path=/home/pi/node_modules/serialport/build/Release"
gyp ERR! cwd /home/pi/node_modules/serialport
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.29
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.12.2
gyp ERR! not ok
node-pre-gyp ERR! build error
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack Error: Failed to execute 'node-gyp build --fallback-to-build --module=/home/pi/node_modules/serialport/build/Release/serialport.node --module_name=serialport --module_path=/home/pi/node_modules/serialport/build/Release' (1)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/pi/node_modules/serialport/node_modules/node-pre-gyp/lib/util/compile.js:83:29)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:98:17)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at maybeClose (child_process.js:755:16)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:822:5)
node-pre-gyp ERR! System Linux 4.4.19-v7+
node-pre-gyp ERR! command "node" "/home/pi/node_modules/serialport/node_modules/.bin/node-pre-gyp" "install" "--fallback-to-build"
node-pre-gyp ERR! cwd /home/pi/node_modules/serialport
node-pre-gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.29
node-pre-gyp ERR! node-pre-gyp -v v0.6.29
node-pre-gyp ERR! not ok
Failed to execute 'node-gyp build --fallback-to-build --module=/home/pi/node_modules/serialport/build/Release/serialport.node --module_name=serialport --module_path=/home/pi/node_modules/serialport/build/Release' (1)
npm WARN This failure might be due to the use of legacy binary "node"
npm WARN For further explanations, please read
/usr/share/doc/nodejs/README.Debian

npm ERR! serialport@4.0.1 install: `node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the serialport@4.0.1 install script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the serialport package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls serialport
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! System Linux 4.4.19-v7+
npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "serialport"
npm ERR! cwd /home/pi/opkg
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.29
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.21
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/pi/opkg/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi/opkg#

[scruss]

Raspbian ships with a very old node package, and causes lots of compatibility errors. This might be the cause.

[Kodie425]

how to fix ?

[scruss]

try installing a newer version using something like Node Version Manager