Cannot invoke open-mstdn-app after Yarn installation

[lofidevops]

• Your OS: Ubuntu 17.04
• App version: Latest (via Yarn)

Steps to reproduce:

• Install Yarn on Ubuntu
• Install mstdn with yarn global add mstdn --prefix /usr/local (failed)
• Install mstdn with sudo yarn global add mstdn --prefix /usr/local (worked)
• Invoke open-mstdn-app

What should happen:

• mstdn starts

What happens instead:

• open-mstdn-app: command not found

Notes:

• I found open-mstdn-app in ~/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/.bin but if I invoke ./open-mstdn-app from there I get: /usr/bin/env: ‘node’: No such file or directory
• Are you considering other packaging options (deb, flatpak, snappy)?

[rhysd]

Why don't you use npm?

[rhysd]

I'm not using yarn. So I'm not sure that this is a problem of this package or your usage of yarn.

[lofidevops]

This was resolved by:

• Installing the nodejs-legacy package (creates a symlink from node to nodejs)
• Re-running sudo yarn global add mstdn --prefix /usr/local
• Invoking open-mstdn-app

[rhysd]

I see. Thank you for your investigation. It's actually a problem with old nodejs package in some Linux distributions, I think.