About the environment install

[liusy58]

Hey ,After I entered "make plugin"

Following errors occured:
Error loading version latest: SyntaxError: Unexpected token {
at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16)
at Module._compile (module.js:374:25)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)
at Module.load (module.js:344:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12)
at Module.require (module.js:354:17)
at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
at Object. (/gitbook/.gitbook/versions/3.2.3/node_modules/read-installed/node_modules/read-package-json/read-json.js:14:27)
at Module._compile (module.js:410:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)

TypeError: Cannot read property 'commands' of null

Could you plz tell me how to solve it?

[MikeMMS]

did you get a solution? I just come across the same issue now.

[MikeMMS]

I just figured out a workaround:

1. install npm: sudo
   apt install npm
2. install gitbook:
   npm install gitbook-cli -g
3. gitbook init
4. gitbook install
5. gitbook serve --no-watch
   then you can open localhost: 4000 and see the book.
   If you want to make pdf or HTML file etc, you could use cat makefile to check the corresponding gitbook command

[liusy58]

thx, I'll have a try