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"npm install" fails to locate scripts/update-versions.js #5

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Following instructions from README, npm install fails with Failed at the [email protected] postinstall script 'node scripts/update-versions.js':

Env:

# npm -v
4.4.1
root@ubuntu:~/runtime.js/helloworld# nodejs -v
v6.10.0
helloworld# ls
index.js  package.json  README.md

Output:

root@ubuntu:~/runtime.js/helloworld# npm install

> [email protected] postinstall /root/runtime.js/helloworld/node_modules/runtimejs
> node scripts/update-versions.js

module.js:472
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module '/root/runtime.js/helloworld/node_modules/runtimejs/scripts/update-versions.js'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:470:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:418:25)
    at Module.runMain (module.js:605:10)
    at run (bootstrap_node.js:422:7)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:143:9)
    at bootstrap_node.js:537:3
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] postinstall: `node scripts/update-versions.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] postinstall script 'node scripts/update-versions.js'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the runtimejs package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node scripts/update-versions.js
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR!     npm bugs runtimejs
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls runtimejs
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2017-03-15T21_09_53_252Z-debug.log

Attempt at following README from Runtime repo also landed at the same error (Failed at the [email protected] postinstall script 'node scripts/update-versions.js'.):

/root/runtime.js/project# npm install runtimejs --save

> [email protected] postinstall /root/runtime.js/project/node_modules/runtimejs
> node scripts/update-versions.js

module.js:472
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module '/root/runtime.js/project/node_modules/runtimejs/scripts/update-versions.js'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:470:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:418:25)
    at Module.runMain (module.js:605:10)
    at run (bootstrap_node.js:422:7)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:143:9)
    at bootstrap_node.js:537:3
npm WARN [email protected] No description
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] postinstall: `node scripts/update-versions.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] postinstall script 'node scripts/update-versions.js'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the runtimejs package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node scripts/update-versions.js
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR!     npm bugs runtimejs
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls runtimejs
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2017-03-15T21_17_31_579Z-debug.log

Snippet from debug log (/root/.npm/_logs/2017-03-15T21_17_31_579Z-debug.log):

2975 verbose lifecycle [email protected]~postinstall: CWD: /root/runtime.js/project/node_modules/runtimejs
2976 silly lifecycle [email protected]~postinstall: Args: [ '-c', 'node scripts/update-versions.js' ]
2977 silly lifecycle [email protected]~postinstall: Returned: code: 1  signal: null
2978 info lifecycle [email protected]~postinstall: Failed to exec postinstall script
2979 verbose unlock done using /root/.npm/_locks/staging-6489a859f817d055.lock for /root/runtime.js/project/node_modules/.staging
2980 silly rollbackFailedOptional Starting

Is the latest runtime.js version (0.2.14) stable? Looked through open/closed issues, but could not find above symptom being encountered before. If 0.2.14 is not stable, can you please recommend a stable version to try out? Thanks a lot!

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