I've written 'toot', a very simple command-line utility to allow Mastodon posts to be sent from the command-line: https://www.npmjs.com/package/toot
@glynn_bird OK, I've poked about randomly, but am way out of my depth. I can't make this work, and don't know what to tell you beyond what I've said already. So let me know what you need me to tell you to help diagnose this.
Cheers.
@glynn_bird I'm on Ubuntu - can I install node.js with an apt-get? (I'm about to Google for that as well)
@glynn_bird I've done a sudo apt-get install nodejs and it says:
nodejs is already the newest version.
nodejs set to manually installed.
@ColinTheMathmo so doing `npm -v` gives you?
@ColinTheMathmo let me try on my virtual ubuntu machine
@ColinTheMathmo I just did
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
(from the instructions in the page I sent you)
and got
node -v
v6.10.2
npm -v
3.10.10
and then
sudo npm install -g toot
worked just fine
@glynn_bird OK, trying that.
@glynn_bird So far so good - stand by ...
@glynn_bird Bingo! Thank you for your help! It looks like it was version skew, so you might want to put the version check somewhere.
But that's working - thank you.
@ColinTheMathmo great news! :smiley: I think Ubuntu ships with an ancient version of Node.
@glynn_bird That would explain it. I am, however, always worried about instructions that have one curl a file directly through bash.
But it's sorted.
@ColinTheMathmo I know. "pipe this unknown thing to sudo bash". Nightmare.
@glynn_bird That's why I prefer to apt-get, and sometimes even to simply download and sha256 to check fingerprints.
Am I overly cautious? Probably, but I am literally paid to be paranoid.
@ColinTheMathmo you are quite right to be paranoid.
@ColinTheMathmo
First of all this is an 'npm' module. So it assumes you've got Node.js installed. https://nodejs.org/en/
If you get that far, you should be able to do
npm install -g toot
or
sudo npm install -g toot
After that just run 'toot' and follow the on-screen instructions. Feel free to DM me screenshots.