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

I was also facing this error when installing Redux:

$ npm install --save react-redux
npm WARN optional Skipping failed optional dependency /chokidar/fsevents:
npm WARN notsup Not compatible with your operating system or architecture: fsevents@1.0.14

What solved the issue was to add --no-optional (argument will prevent optional dependencies from being installed):

npm install --no-optional --save react-redux
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

And now it is correctly installed:

$ npm ls redux
ReduxProject@ /home/me/projects/reduxproject
└── redux@3.5.2