Thanks I was able to use the equivs package to get parsoid to run
properly - I also then found the following link in some fine print on MW
Parsoid/Setup page which works too:
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Aran
<aran(a)organicdesign.co.nz> wrote:
I'm trying to install parsoid on Ubuntu 12. I
installed nodejs from
source, but when I try and install parsoid via apt-get it fails saying
that it depends on nodejs (>= 0.8.0) even though node --version returns
v0.10.31!
Anyone have any ideas what could be wrong?
The package manager doesn't know anything about software you manually
installed.
The ideal thing to do would be to just install the nodejs package: I see
Ubuntu trusty has 0.10.25, and Debian has 0.10.29 in both testing and
unstable. You may be able to just download the source package and rebuild
it for precise.
Or you could try using the "equivs" package to fake out the package manager.