Dead link in the npm install

[thomas-louvigne]

this link https://github.com/tessel/node-usb/releases/download/1.2.0/usb_bindings-v1.2.0-node-v48-linux-x64.tar.gz
don t work, so the install crash...

[m-ou-se]

Looks like node-usb simply doesn't provide pre-built binaries for Linux: https://github.com/tessel/node-usb/releases

npm install should automatically continue building it from source, after failing to download pre-build binaries:

Pre-built binaries not found for usb@1.2.0 and node@6.5.0 (node-v48 ABI) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp) 

[studywolf]

I'm getting the same problem, followed by not finding the binaries:

> usb@1.2.0 install /usr/lib/node_modules/teck-programmer/node_modules/usb
> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build

node-pre-gyp ERR! Tried to download: https://github.com/tessel/node-usb/releases/download/1.2.0/usb_bindings-v1.2.0-node-v51-linux-x64.tar.gz 
node-pre-gyp ERR! Pre-built binaries not found for usb@1.2.0 and node@7.10.0 (node-v51 ABI) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp) 

went to the link but didn't see the file that it's searching for...