Running npm install face-recognition runs fine on my mac, but when I try to do it on my Debian VM, it fails with the following error:
SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/ /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpng collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status facerec.target.mk:157: recipe for target 'Release/ failed make: *** [Release/ Error 1 make: Leaving directory '/home/ben/face-rec/node_modules/face-recognition/build' gyp ERR! build error gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2 gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:262:23) gyp ERR! stack at emitTwo (events.js:126:13) gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:214:7) gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:198:12) gyp ERR! System Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild" gyp ERR! cwd /home/ben/face-rec/node_modules/face-recognition gyp ERR! node -v v8.11.3 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.7.0 gyp ERR! not ok npm WARN [email protected] No repository field. npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! errno 1 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 probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above. npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! /home/ben/.npm/_logs/2018-07-15T19_28_00_238Z-debug.log I think the key parts are lines 2 and 3, the parts about ld not being able to find -lX11 or -lpng. This is easily solved on a mac by installing Xquartz, but a workaround seems impossible on a Linux server. Any ideas?
1 Answer
You're simply missing the libraries. Try this:
apt-get install libpng-dev libx11 
