Error installing node-gyp on ubuntu

Question

npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/weak/-/weak-0.2.2.tgz
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/bindings
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/bindings

> [email protected] install node_modules/weak
> node-gyp rebuild

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/gyp_main.py", line 18, in <module>
    sys.exit(gyp.script_main())
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'script_main'
gyp ERR! configure error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:337:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:789:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 3.11.0-15-generic
gyp ERR! command "node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"

gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.15
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.12.1
gyp ERR! not ok 
npm ERR! [email protected] install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the weak package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls weak
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! System Linux 3.11.0-15-generic
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "[email protected]"
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.15
npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.23
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! not ok code 0

I don't have a direct dependency on weak or node-gyp but I guess it is required by my other dependencies (express,phantom,ejs,aws-sdk,moment). Anyone faced such an issue and was able to fix?

Solution 1

This is what worked. You need python 2.6 during the installation.

#!/bin/bash
#On Ubuntu Saucy:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fkrull/deadsnakes
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python2.6
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python2.6 20
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python2.7 10

#you can switch between 2.6 & 2.7 using:
sudo update-alternatives --config python

#Btw I installed node using ppa:chris-lea/node.js

https://github.com/TooTallNate/node-gyp/issues/363

Solution 2

If your python version isn't the source of error, check if you have "gyp" installed. This is conflicting with the gyp version in node-gyp.

apt-get remove gyp

https://github.com/TooTallNate/node-gyp/issues/363#issuecomment-32234646

Solution 3

This command sudo apt-get install build-essential helped in my case.

Solution 4

FWIW, I had a similar problem trying to install Protractor on Ubuntu 14.04 (DigitalOcean). Reinstalling node-gyp fixed the it:

apt-get install node-gyp

Solution 5

on Ubuntu 18, I had to install required build libs to get it working

sudo apt-get install build-essential

View more solutions

Comments

[Hugolpz]

What does exactly sudo update-alternatives --config python ? it switch from 2.6 => 2.7 => 2.6 => 2.7 ... ? and how to know which python are we currently using ?

[test30]

you can evaluate every command line tool to its version by using which $(readlink -f `which python`)

[Pratik Mandrekar]

You can figure out the python version in use with the command python --version

[Yauhen Yakimovich]

Should be an accepted answer. Downgrading to 2.6 and using PPA is the last resort.

[pieroxy]

I'm having this error when running npm install. the gip package is a dependency of npm, so removing it doesn not solve the issue for me as it removes npm as well... I'm on Ubuntu 14.04.

[Róisín Grannell]

For those with similar problems, this resolves the following error for me on Ubuntu. "error: no such option: --no-parallel"

[Aloy A Sen]

in ubuntu 18.04 there are no build-essentials but in earlier editions of ubuntu did not have this problem thanks for your support

[Erwol]

On a fresh Ubuntu 20 installation I had to run sudo apt update before installing build-essential.

[Arthur Ronconi]

The command on Linux Mint 20.3 works fine!

[Admin]

This answer worked for me on ubuntu 20