Package cairo was not found in the pkg-config search path. Node j.s install canvas issue

Question

I am having a problem installing installing the canvas module in node..It seems to be something with cairo I am getting this error...

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Answer 1

When I ran into this problem the issue was that the version of pkg-config on my path was the version supplied by chefdk instead of the homebrew installed version.

$ which pkg-config
/usr/local/bin/pkg-config

$ eval "$(chef shell-init bash)"
$ which pkg-config
/opt/chefdk/embedded/bin/pkg-config

The solution was to remove the eval "$(chef shell-init bash)" entry from my bash profile.

More discussion of the issue in chefdk's path generation on Github https://github.com/chef/chef-dk/issues/313