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I got the following error when I tried to install websocket module in NodeJS. I'm trying on an Ubuntu 12.04 machine.

ubuntu@domU-12-31-39-14-1A-A1:/var/www$ npm install websocket npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/websocket npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/websocket > [email protected] install /var/www/node_modules/websocket > node install.js [websocket v1.0.8] Attempting to compile native extensions. [websocket v1.0.8] Native code compile failed!! Please note that this module DOES NOT REQUIRE the native components and will still work without them, though not quite as efficiently. On Windows, native extensions require Visual Studio and Python. On Unix, native extensions require Python, make and a C++ compiler. Start npm with --websocket:verbose to show compilation output (if any). [email protected] node_modules/websocket

The command I used to install websocket module is npm install websocket. Can somebody advise what is going wrong?

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    Have you checked your ./var/www/node_modules/websocket folder? It looks to me like it installed fine, but was just unable to add the native extensions due to incompatibility. Commented Jan 19, 2013 at 17:20

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Check if python and make are installed. I haven't done this on Ubuntu but on Windows7 the same error appears. This post is helpful. I tried with npm install [email protected] and it worked.

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