Trouble installing hyperdex-client (node)

[liammclennan]

Installing on Ubuntu 14.10. Error is:

configure: error: 
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Replicant relies upon the popt library.
Please install popt to continue.
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hyperdex-client.target.mk:13: recipe for target '.' failed
make: *** [.] Error 1
make: Leaving directory '/home/liam/hyperdex/node_modules/hyperdex-client/build'
gyp ERR! build error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/share/node-gyp/lib/build.js:267:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:797:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 3.16.0-43-generic
gyp ERR! command "nodejs" "/usr/bin/node-gyp" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /home/liam/hyperdex/node_modules/hyperdex-client
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.25
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.12.2
gyp ERR! not ok 
npm WARN This failure might be due to the use of legacy binary "node"
npm WARN For further explanations, please read
/usr/share/doc/nodejs/README.Debian

npm ERR! hyperdex-client@0.0.7 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the hyperdex-client@0.0.7 install script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the hyperdex-client package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls hyperdex-client
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! System Linux 3.16.0-43-generic
npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "hyperdex-client"
npm ERR! cwd /home/liam/hyperdex
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.25
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.21
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/liam/hyperdex/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0
liam@ubuntu:~/hyperdex$ This failure might be due to the use of legacy binary "node"
This: command not found

[BHSDuncan]

I'd like to add "me too", but on my Mac Book Pro running Yosemite 10.10.4.

[CU-0xff]

After installing libpopt-dev and running the installation with sudo, this error was going away ... but, well, bumped into another one ;-)

[el33th4x0r]

We're working on restoring support for OSX, following a regression in 1.8.

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 7:23 AM, 0xff notifications@github.com wrote:

After installing libpopt-dev and running the installation with sudo, this
error was going away ... but, well, bumped into another one ;-)

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[n321203]

Any progress on this?
I'm trying to install node bindings, but it fails with the error message

Replicant relies upon the popt library. Please install popt to continue.

So I ran

brew install popt

which ran fine but didn't change anything. I'm on OS X 10.10

[n321203]

Update: Just tried a fresh install on Ubuntu 14.04, it gives the same error. So this isn't just related to OS X.

Added popt with

apt-get install libopt-dev

which solved this error and produced a new one: Missing pkg-config. Ran

apt-get install pkg-config

which solved that error and produced a new one: Missing libhyperleveldb.

Now I am out of luck. Why should it be so hard to try this piece of software out. Can someone point me to a combination of OS + Hyperdex version + node-bindings which will actually install?