Failed at the v8-debug@0.4.6 install script 'node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build

Question

Having this issue when using npm install. (lots of other people had this issue aswell with other commands/tasks).

I'm adding this question as a reference to a solution that has already worked for quite a few people.

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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>