Installing Pow 0.4.1 on OS X Mountain Lion: Illegal Instruction 4

Question

First post here.

I have POW version 0.3.2 installed and working seamlessly, which it has been for a long time. For the first time I have the need of accessing my POW virtual hosts from another machine on the network (an iPad), which requires POW version 0.4.0 or higher. When I try to install (upgrade) PO using curl get.pow.cx | sh it starts the installation but eventually comes back with an error like so:

*** Installing Pow 0.4.1...
*** Installing local configuration files...
sh: line 95: 3513 Illegal instruction: 4 "$NODE_BIN" "$POW_BIN" --install-local

I have the latest Xcode installed with the command line tools; I have node.js installed via the packaged installer, originally it was v. 0.8.21, but in trying to get this fixed I installed the latest version; As mentioned in the title I have OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4). Please let me know if more info is needed. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

I had the same problem on OS X Lion. I haven't figured out what is wrong, so I used Homebrew. First, install Homebrew if you didn't:

$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"

Than run:

$ brew install pow

And follow these instructions:

$ sudo pow --install-system
$ pow --install-local
$ sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/cx.pow.firewall.plist
$ launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/cx.pow.powd.plist

Also, you always can install Pow from source.