Cannot `npm install es6-shim` on Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS

[sivabudh]

Hello,

I tried to npm install the package on Ubuntu 12.04.5, but it failed. I tried on Ubuntu 14.04, and didn't run into any problems.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks!

root@angular2-quickstart:~/Code# npm install es6-shim
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/es6-shim

npm ERR! Error: failed to fetch from registry: es6-shim
npm ERR!     at /usr/share/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/get.js:139:12
npm ERR!     at cb (/usr/share/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/request.js:31:9)
npm ERR!     at Request._callback (/usr/share/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/request.js:136:18)
npm ERR!     at Request.callback (/usr/lib/nodejs/request/main.js:119:22)
npm ERR!     at Request.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/nodejs/request/main.js:212:58)
npm ERR!     at Request.emit (events.js:88:20)
npm ERR!     at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/nodejs/request/main.js:412:12)
npm ERR!     at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:67:17)
npm ERR!     at HTTPParser.onIncoming (http.js:1261:11)
npm ERR!     at HTTPParser.onHeadersComplete (http.js:102:31)
npm ERR! You may report this log at:
npm ERR!     <http://bugs.debian.org/npm>
npm ERR! or use
npm ERR!     reportbug --attach /root/Code/npm-debug.log npm
npm ERR!
npm ERR! System Linux 3.13.0-71-generic
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "es6-shim"
npm ERR! cwd /root/Code
npm ERR! node -v v0.6.12
npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.4
npm ERR! message failed to fetch from registry: es6-shim
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/Code/npm-debug.log
npm not ok

[ljharb]

That's a network error. Since you're using an ancient node, 0.6, and an equally ancient and unsupported npm, the 1.x series, you'll need to upgrade npm to 2.x at least, and you'll want to upgrade node to v4 or v5.