Hello,

I have just installed fb-messenger-cli on Debian.
When I run it I get this error output:

[CODE$]fb-messenger-cli

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/fb-messenger-cli/cli.js:16
crypt.load((err, data) => {
^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token >
at Module._compile (module.js:439:25)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
at startup (node.js:119:16)
at node.js:906:3[/CODE]

The install seemed to go fine, I checked and node is version 0.10.29 and npm 1.4.21.
I heard there is an issue with Debian naming "node" "nodejs" but really don't know about this.

Any clue?

Based on error message, the issue is relative to installation, it can't load crypt java script.
Where do you get fb-messageer-cli packet, from Debian or third party?

third party, that is, github.
It is a npm package, for there is no fb-messenger-cli package for Debian, at least that I know of.

which debian version are you running?
is it up-to-date?
which nodejs version is installed?
from the repos?

guess:
maybe fb-messenger-cli relies on a different (newer) nodejs version? what do they say about it?

Debian testing, up to date, npm is 1.4.21, node is 0.10.29, from the repository.

^ good.
now check out the github repo what documentation it provides about what sort of versions of nodejs it requires etc.

I checked the fb-messenger.cli page at:
https://github.com/Alex-Rose/fb-mess...master/scripts
and also the readme.d file in the fb-messenger-cli package that I have installed and, as far as I can tell, there seems not to be other dependencies besides nmp, nodejs and curl, which are all installed.

^ that looks like the wrong page, you should be reading (and following instructions on) this:
https://github.com/Alex-Rose/fb-mess...ster/README.md

it's the same readme.md.

The nodejs version that fb-messageer-cli request is 6 or 7, such as 6.11.3 or something. Your version is 0.10.29, too old.

Right on,
never having used nodejs before I was not familiar with the version numbers.
Installed correct versions and it worked.

Thanks alot.

^ it would be nice if you told us HOW you did that, esp. on debian.
others will benefit.
life's a two-way street.

There might be better ways, but here is mine.

1 - upgraded system to Buster (I was using a fresh Stretch install)
2 - # curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_7.x | sudo -E bash -
3 - # apt-get install -y nodejs
4 - # apt-get install -y build-essential
5 - # npm install -g fb-messenger-cli
6 - # fb-messenger-cli

For those not familiar with it, fb-messenger-cli allows to use Facebook Messenger on the terminal, which is handy for me since my favorite web browser is Luakit, which,as many other lightweight browsers, does not render the frame of the chat windows very nicely.

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