io.js destroys original NodeJS installation on Mac

[megastef]

Hi,

after installing IOJS on Mac OS X the existing 'node' programm did not work anymore. It turned out that "node" was replaced with "iojs".
How to get my normal nodejs environment back?

Here the stacktrace while failing to load memwatch module (which is not ready for node 0.11 ...).

Stefans-iMac:client stefan$ node lib/app.js 
module.js:341
  Module._extensions[extension](this, filename);
                               ^
Error: Module did not self-register.
    at Error (native)
    at Module.load (module.js:341:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:296:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:351:17)
    at require (module.js:370:17)
    at Object. (/Users/stefan/projects/mymemwatchtest/node_modules/memwatch/include.js:2:9)
    at Module._compile (module.js:446:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:464:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:341:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:296:12)
Stefans-iMac:client stefan$ node --version 
v1.0.1

[bnoordhuis]

You can just install node.js again. If you want them to coexist, you can install io.js to a different directory next time with ./configure --prefix=, or use something like nvm.

Apropos node-memwatch, you really shouldn't be using it, it's abandoned and crash-prone, see lloyd/node-memwatch#50. Maybe try strong-agent, it has memwatch-like functionality built in and works with io.js. (Disclosure: I wrote most of strong-agent.)

Hope that helps!

[megastef]

Thx. I installed using nice Mac OS Installer :) Maybe it should let live the /usr/local/bin/node link - so user can start iojs when they want and node when they want ...

Here the solution I found right now:

sudo rm /usr/local/bin/node
sudo ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/node/0.10.32/bin/node /usr/local/bin/node
node --version
v0.10.32
iojs
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