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

Question

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

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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 link for more details

Answer 3

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 solved.

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

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>

Answer 6

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  = 'http://posttestserver.com/post.php',
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:https://github.com/JCMais/node-libcurl/issues/98