I am going to assume that you know how to login to the command prompt on your Raspberry PI from your chosen system or you are accessing it via the console.
Most of the information that is contained below has been found on the internet and modified to suit the need here.
First off we are going to create a directory called node and this is where we are going to install node.js rather than in ‘/usr/local’ just make life a little more simple when updating things in the future.
sudo mkdir /opt/node
The next step is to dowload the Node.JS ARM binary package, unpack it and copy the content to our node directory /opt/node.
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.24/node-v0.10.24-linux-arm-pi.tar.gz
tar xvzf node-v0.10.24-linux-arm-pi.tar.gz
sudo cp -r node-v0.10.24-linux-arm-pi/* /opt/node
Finally we have to add Node.JS to our path.
sudo ln -s /opt/node/bin/node /usr/local/bin/node
sudo ln -s /opt/node/bin/npm /usr/local/bin/npm
That completes installing nodejs on the RBPI so next we will install the PFClient
Enter the following commands on the command line
cd ~
then
sudo wget http://clieentfiles.planefinder.net/pfclient-latest.tgz
sudo npm install -g pfclient-latest.tgz
The command above will install PFClient (Be warned it will take some time to install)
You should see lots of information scrolling on the terminal window
and when completed you should see something like this
/usr/local/bin/pfclient -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/pfclient/client.js
/usr/local/bin/pfclient-service -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/pfclient/launcher.js
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then type sudo pfclient at the command prompt and press enter then follow the on screen prompts to set up PFClient as per instructions
We need now a start script for PFClient. The script will start PFCLient with the user ‘pi’ . The output stream from PFCLient will be stored in the file /tmp/pfclient.log. Just create the file pfstart.sh in your current directory with the following content:
at the command prompt and press enter then follow the on screen prompts
sudo nano pfstart.sh
The add this
#!/bin/bash
NODE=/opt/node/bin/node
PFCLIENT_SERVER=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pfclient/client.js
USER=pi
OUT=/tmp/pfclient.log
case “$1” in
start)
echo “starting node: $NODE $PFCLIENT_SERVER”
sudo -u $USER $NODE $PFCLIENT_SERVER > $OUT 2>$OUT &
;;
stop)
killall $NODE
;;
*)
echo “usage: $0 (start|stop)”
esac
exit 0
Then press ctrl and X then press Y to save the file and exit from nano
Next enter the following commands
sudo chmod 755 pfstart.sh
sudo cp pfstart.sh /etc/init.d
sudo update-rc.d pfstart.sh defaults
It’s time to start pfclient with our start script.
sudo /etc/init.d/pfstart.sh start
To stop pfclient just enter
sudo /etc/init.d/pfclient.sh stop
To check that everything is ok issue the following command
cat /tmp/pfclient.log
This should display the status of the software that is running
and if you want to remove pfstart.sh then issue the following commands
sudo rm /etc/init.d/pfclient.sh
sudo update-rc.d pfstart.sh remove
I hope you find this of use
