`node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build` failed during MeanJS installation on OSX

I just bought myself a mac book after using Windows for a long time.

I was trying to work on a MeanJS project that I had been working on. Doing npm install on the project throws error

Failed to execute '/usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js build --fallback-to-build --module=/Users/Aayush/Work/lishn/repo/lishn-alpha/node_modules/grunt-node-inspector/node_modules/node-inspector/node_modules/v8-debug/build/debug/v0.4.6/node-v46-darwin-x64/debug.node --module_name=debug --module_path=/Users/Aayush/Work/lishn/repo/lishn-alpha/node_modules/grunt-node-inspector/node_modules/node-inspector/node_modules/v8-debug/build/debug/v0.4.6/node-v46-darwin-x64' (1) npm ERR! Darwin 15.0.0 npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" npm ERR! node v4.1.1 npm ERR! npm v2.14.4 npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE > > npm ERR! v8-debug@0.4.6 install: `node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build` npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the v8-debug@0.4.6 install script 'node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build'. npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the v8-debug package, npm ERR! not with npm itself. npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system: npm ERR! node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build npm ERR! You can get their info via: npm ERR! npm owner ls v8-debug npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above. 

I tried clearing cache.

I tried installing node-pre-gyp with sudo and --unsafe-perm

I also tried to fresh install a MEAN project, with the same error.

I can't seem to find what the problem is here.

Node Version - 5.0.0 NPM Version - 3.3.10 

20 Answers

i have tried upgrading node-gyp:

sudo npm install -g node-gyp 

It worked for me.

I find the solution here, I hope it can help.

russfrisch commented 4 days ago:

I was experiencing this same issue. Changing in the version for grunt-node-inspector to prepend a ">=" instead of a "~" got this to work for me.

Link to github page where I found this solution.

Link to my post on StackoverFlow

I was gone through same problem solved after lot efforts. It is because of npm version is not compatible with gprc version. So we need to update the npm.

npm update npm install 

This might not work for everyone, but I updated node and it fixed the issue for me when none of the above did

This seems issue with my node upgrade. How ever I solved it with the following approach.

First uninstall the cli, clear cashe, and reinstall with these commands

npm uninstall -g @angular/cli npm cache clean npm install -g @angular/cli 

Then install node-pre-gyp

npm install -g node-pre-gyp 

Restart your terminal and see if the issue is resolved.

Just use this command and it will handle this error npm install --unsafe-perm --allow-root

I also face the same problem. I found a solution for that.

bcrypt required C++, python, and node-pre-gyp.

sudo apt-get install g++ sudo apt-get install -y build-essential python npm install node-pre-gyp 

for more details check: Installation-Instructions

Alright so after some debugging the following dependencies are using an older version of touch:

./node_modules/bower/node_modules/decompress-zip/package.json: "touch": "0.0.3" ./node_modules/bower/node_modules/lockfile/package.json: "touch": "0" ./node_modules/gulp-nodemon/node_modules/nodemon/package.json: "touch": "1.0.0", ./node_modules/gulp-nodemon/node_modules/touch/package.json: "touch": "./bin/touch.js" ./node_modules/nodemon/package.json: "touch": "~0.0.3", 

With that I was able to get meanJS working with node 5.

Here is the history on the commands I ran:

git clone cd mean nvm install 5 nvm use 5 npm install which node-gyp npm install -g node-pre-gyp sudo xcodebuild -license npm install 

Had some issues and then:

I added the following line:

#!/usr/bin/env node

To the top of the file ./mean/node_modules/.bin/touch

And then:

npm install 

And of course maybe throw in a sudo rm -rf ./node_modules && npm cache clean before retrying.

As @ocean800 stated I updated node. The below solution is for Ubuntu 16.04 that worked for me, but something similar on OSX may fix this issue.

On Ubuntu 16.04, what worked for me was upgrading node

updating nodejs on ubuntu 16.04

I am replicating solution from the above link below

To update, you can install n

sudo npm install -g n 

Then just :

sudo n latest 

or a specific version

sudo n 8.9.0 

Then try and install

sudo npm install <package> 

Hope my scenario can help someone else. I had the same problem with the package bcrypt. First, I have tried with npm i -g node-gyp as suggested by Anne but the problem persisted. Then I read again the error message to have a better understanding of the problem and discovered that the script fails to build the package from scratch - since a precompiled version doesn't exist. In particular, it can't find the g++ command so I solved installing the build-essential package with sudo apt install build-essential -y.

Following command work for me:

sudo npm i -g node-pre-gyp 

I was solved this problem too: Just reinstall node to LTS version by nvm:

nvm install --lts nvm use --lts 

Then rm -rf node_modules And npm i

I recently had this error on a fresh OSX install of Node using homebrew. Brew installed the latest at the time 13.8.0.

I downgraded the last "stable" release of node.

sudo npm install -g n ## Installs Node Version Switcher sudo n stable ## To switch to latest stable version 

Then the rest of my npm installs finished and passed the dreaded gprc errors!

are you running the example from the node_modules folder?

They are not supposed to be ran from there.

Create the following file on your project instead:

post-data.js

var Curl = require( 'node-libcurl' ).Curl, querystring = require( 'querystring' ); var curl = new Curl(), url = ' data = { //Data to send, inputName : value 'input-arr[0]' : 'input-arr-val0', 'input-arr[1]' : 'input-arr-val1', 'input-arr[2]' : 'input-arr-val2', 'input-name' : 'input-val' }; //You need to build the query string, // node has this helper function, but it's limited for real use cases (no support for array values for example) data = querystring.stringify( data ); curl.setOpt( Curl.option.URL, url ); curl.setOpt( Curl.option.POSTFIELDS, data ); curl.setOpt( Curl.option.HTTPHEADER, ['User-Agent: node-libcurl/1.0'] ); curl.setOpt( Curl.option.VERBOSE, true ); console.log( querystring.stringify( data ) ); curl.perform(); curl.on( 'end', function( statusCode, body ) { console.log( body ); this.close(); }); curl.on( 'error', curl.close.bind( curl ) ); 

Run with node post-data.js

ref:

Happened to me on node 13.7.0 and npm 6.13.6 (macOS Mojave).

I had the following as part of my errors:

found X vulnerabilities (Y moderate, Z high) run `npm audit fix` to fix them, or `npm audit` for details 

And running the following fixed the problem:

1. $ npm audit fix

2. $ npm install

Try toreinstall XCode’s command-line tools with xcode-istall

That's worked for me.

npm ERR! bcrypt@1.0.3 install: node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build 

The above error was fixed by installing bcrypt using the following command:

npm --build-from-source install bcrypt@3.0.6 

After uninstalling node-gyp, try installing again.

sudo npm uninstall -g node-gyp sudo npm install -g node-gyp 

I tried all the other suggested solutions and none of them worked. I solved the issue by removing all spaces and "&" characters from the name of all root folders.

try these

sudo chown -R $(whoami) ~/.npm sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/lib sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/bin 

Then try your command again without sudo. e.g.

npm install -g npm@latest 

Check this global installs sudo fail on mac for more details