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

If anyone is still having this problem and found this page, the following works for CentOS 6.6:

sudo yum install cairo cairo-devel

Basically the solution is you need to install the development package as well as the regular package (the best answer here does the same thing - except is for Ubuntu - every distro can be different).

Answer 2

I followed the steps given by @Piyush. But I needed an extra step to make it work. I'm using OS X 10.14.5

So this is what I followed.

brew install pkg-config
brew install cairo
pkg-config --atleast-version=1.12.2 cairo
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/X11/lib/pkgconfig/
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}:/usr/local/opt/libffi/lib/pkgconfig"
npm install canvas

Answer 3

Had the same problem on OS X 10.11.2 while installing qrcode package.

Solved by installing these ones:

brew install cairo
brew install pkg-config
xcode-select --install