`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

I was solved this problem too: Just reinstall node to LTS version by nvm:

nvm install --lts

nvm use --lts

Then rm -rf node_modules And npm i

Answer 2

Alright so after some debugging the following dependencies are using an older version of touch:

./node_modules/bower/node_modules/decompress-zip/package.json:    "touch": "0.0.3"
./node_modules/bower/node_modules/lockfile/package.json:    "touch": "0"
./node_modules/gulp-nodemon/node_modules/nodemon/package.json:    "touch": "1.0.0",
./node_modules/gulp-nodemon/node_modules/touch/package.json:    "touch": "./bin/touch.js"
./node_modules/nodemon/package.json:    "touch": "~0.0.3",

With that I was able to get meanJS working with node 5.

Here is the history on the commands I ran:

git clone https://github.com/meanjs/mean.git
cd mean
nvm install 5
nvm use 5
npm install
which node-gyp
npm install -g node-pre-gyp
sudo xcodebuild -license
npm install

Had some issues and then:

I added the following line:

#!/usr/bin/env node

To the top of the file ./mean/node_modules/.bin/touch

And then:

npm install

And of course maybe throw in a sudo rm -rf ./node_modules && npm cache clean before retrying.

Answer 3

Hope my scenario can help someone else. I had the same problem with the package bcrypt. First, I have tried with npm i -g node-gyp as suggested by Anne but the problem persisted. Then I read again the error message to have a better understanding of the problem and discovered that the script fails to build the package from scratch - since a precompiled version doesn't exist. In particular, it can't find the g++ command so I solved installing the build-essential package with sudo apt install build-essential -y.

Answer 4

Following command work for me:

sudo npm i -g node-pre-gyp

Answer 5

i have tried upgrading node-gyp:

sudo npm install -g node-gyp

It worked for me.

I find the solution here, I hope it can help.

Answer 6

Just use this command and it will handle this error npm install --unsafe-perm --allow-root