# Dev-ip errors during npm install

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/dev-ip-errors-during-npm-install/4790
**Category:** sage
**Created:** 2015-09-20T06:43:09Z
**Posts:** 2

## Post 1 by @eavonius — 2015-09-20T06:43:09Z

Windows 10 (Host)  
Vagrant Version: 1.7.4  
Ubuntu Version: 3.13.0-63-generic (trusty 64)  
Node Version: 4.1.0  
Npm Version: 3.3.3

When I am at the step where I run npm install in the sage theme directory, I see:

npm ERR! Linux 3.13.0-63-generic  
npm ERR! argv “/usr/bin/nodejs” “/usr/bin/npm” "install"  
npm ERR! node v4.1.0  
npm ERR! npm v3.3.3  
npm ERR! path …/dev-ip/lib/dev-ip.js  
npm ERR! code EPROTO  
npm ERR! errno -71  
npm ERR! syscall symlink

npm ERR! EPROTO: protocol error, symlink ‘…/dev-ip/lib/dev-ip.js’ -\> '/vagrant/site/web/app/themes/inchorus/node\_modules/.bin/dev-ip’  
npm ERR!  
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this error at:  
npm ERR! [https://github.com/npm/npm/issues](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues)  
npm ERR! Linux 3.13.0-63-generic  
npm ERR! argv “/usr/bin/nodejs” “/usr/bin/npm” "install"  
npm ERR! node v4.1.0  
npm ERR! npm v3.3.3  
npm ERR! path npm-debug.log.749bd9962d2301b21c17a6160eee5e09  
npm ERR! code ETXTBSY  
npm ERR! errno -26  
npm ERR! syscall rename

npm ERR! ETXTBSY: text file is busy, rename ‘npm-debug.log.749bd9962d2301b21c17a6160eee5e09’ -\> 'npm-debug.log’  
npm ERR!  
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this error at:  
npm ERR! [https://github.com/npm/npm/issues](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues)

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:  
npm ERR! /vagrant/site/web/app/themes/inchorus/npm-debug.log

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## Post 2 by @eavonius — 2015-09-20T15:39:45Z

Resolved. Had to use nvm to install 0.12 based on some updates on here (instead of 4.1.0) and use the symlink fix for Windows’ node\_modules.