Failed to install Nodejs 6.10 on Debian Wheezy Armhf

[vkotovv]

• Version: 6.10.0-1nodesource1~wheezy1
• Platform: Linux beaglebone 3.8.13-bone79 Check that lsb-release is installed #1 SMP Tue Oct 13 20:44:55 UTC 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux

I was not able to install Nodejs 6.10 package via installation script on my Beaglebone Black on Debian Wheezy (ARM-based). After spending some time struggling to install, I've found out that Packages file is empty in the remote repo. Packages.gz is empty too, its just a gzipped 0-byte file. But for other architectures (like i386) files are present. Is it ok? Did anyone successfully install Nodejs on Debian 7 ARM?

Here is the output from apt-cache command:

root@beaglebone:~# apt-get clean
root@beaglebone:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates InRelease
Ign:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy InRelease                                           
Hit:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy-updates InRelease                                   
Hit:4 http://repos.rcn-ee.com/debian wheezy InRelease                      
Hit:5 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease                 
Hit:6 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy Release
Hit:7 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_6.x wheezy InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

root@beaglebone:~# apt-get install nodejs=6.10.0-1nodesource1~wheezy1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Version '6.10.0-1nodesource1~wheezy1' for 'nodejs' was not found

root@beaglebone:~# apt-cache madison nodejs
    nodejs | 4.7.2~dfsg-2+b1 | http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable/main armhf Packages
    nodejs | 0.10.42~dfsg-0rcnee2~bpo70+20160217+1 | http://repos.rcn-ee.com/debian wheezy/main armhf Packages

root@beaglebone:~# apt-cache policy nodejs
nodejs:
  Installed: 4.7.2~dfsg-2+b1
  Candidate: 4.7.2~dfsg-2+b1
  Version table:
 *** 4.7.2~dfsg-2+b1 500
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable/main armhf Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.10.42~dfsg-0rcnee2~bpo70+20160217+1 500
        500 http://repos.rcn-ee.com/debian wheezy/main armhf Packages

root@beaglebone:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list 
deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_6.x wheezy main
# deb-src https://deb.nodesource.com/node_6.x wheezy main

I have unstable repository turned on for some other packages that I need.

[chrislea]

This is indeed an error on our side, for some reason the wheezy package for armhf didn't build properly and isn't in the repo. We are looking into it.

[chrislea]

Ah, I'm sorry again, I did not read the title fully.

Debian Wheezy is not supported for this version of Node on armhf due to the lack of available compilers that will actually build modern versions of V8. If you update to Jessie, the installation should work.

[vkotovv]

Ok, now I understood. Sorry, did not see corresponding section in the Readme. I've looked into this guide, and it says armhf is supported, Wheezy is supported. Maybe it can be stated there? Also, it would be great if install script could warn if there is no distribution available for Wheezy and Ubuntu precise.