Not compatible with your operating system or architecture: fsevents@1.0.11

Question

I\'m using Ubuntu 15.04. While running the following command:

npm install fsevents

I\'m getting following error:

npm WARN optio         


        

Answer 1

If you're getting ERR! not WARN a likely cause of this issue is that you're using a really outdated version of NPM

For me, I shelled into some server, and was like "why won't this work?", getting this error:

npm ERR! Linux 4.4.0-130-generic
npm ERR! argv "/home/william/.nvm/versions/node/v4.4.3/bin/node" "/home/william/.nvm/versions/node/v4.4.3/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! node v4.4.3
npm ERR! npm  v2.15.1
npm ERR! code EBADPLATFORM

npm ERR! notsup Unsupported
npm ERR! notsup Not compatible with your operating system or architecture: fsevents@1.1.3
npm ERR! notsup Valid OS:    darwin
npm ERR! notsup Valid Arch:  any
npm ERR! notsup Actual OS:   linux
npm ERR! notsup Actual Arch: x64

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /home/william/app/mcard-api/npm-debug.log

Turns out this server (that I only recently acquired) was running npm 2.15.1. I re-installed nvm, and nvm install --lts fixed it.