Error while installing discord-rpc

Question

Error while installing discord-rpc

huantianad opened this issue 3 years ago · 14 comments

Describe the bug
The program is unable to install node packages, and seems to failing at installing discord-rpc. Running start.sh results in the message An error occurred while installing modules., and manual npm i output is provided below.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Download Linux version of program.
Unzip
Run start.sh

Terminal output
terminal-output.txt
npm.log

Your Setup:

OS: Linux
NodeJS version: v16.11.1
npm version: 8.1.3

Answer 1 · 2021-11-18T21:14:22.000Z

Try updating node-gyp: (as superuser) npm install -g node-gyp@latest since your version is out of date by an entire major release.

Answer 2 · 2021-11-19T00:47:51.000Z

I'm using arch and node-gyp is installed via pacman, so using npm to update it would probably break the package unfortunately, so I'll probably hold off on that. I do have version 8.2.0, which is only 2 minor versions behind though.

Answer 3 · 2021-11-19T03:04:49.000Z

For whatever reason then, npm is grabbing some other installation of node-gyp on your system, judging by this:

npm ERR! gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v7.1.2
npm ERR! gyp ERR! Node-gyp failed to build your package.
npm ERR! gyp ERR! Try to update npm and/or node-gyp and if it does not help file an issue with the package author.```

Answer 4 · 2021-11-19T05:09:53.000Z

Seems like it's trying to use the node-gyp bundled with my npm installation instead of my global one, so seems to be something on my end.

Answer 5 · 2021-11-19T18:55:38.000Z

if you have node-gyp bundled with npm already, npm install -g node-gyp@latest would update it and not affect the pacman package any more than it already does, no? worth a try.
Or maybe just remove the npm-bundled version and hope that it defaults to the pacman version.

Answer 6 · 2021-11-21T21:46:53.000Z

same problem here

Answer 7 · 2021-11-21T21:50:04.000Z

i use arch linux btw

Answer 8 · 2021-11-21T21:50:25.000Z

i too use arch btw but mine's better than yours because i also use dwm

Answer 9 · 2021-11-21T21:51:58.000Z

if you have node-gyp bundled with npm already, npm install -g node-gyp@latest would update it and not affect the pacman package any more than it already does, no? worth a try.

Or maybe just remove the npm-bundled version and hope that it defaults to the pacman version.

The problem is that the pacman node-gyp and npm -g node-gyp are installed in /usr/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/, while when installing it's using /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/

Answer 10 · 2021-11-21T22:06:42.000Z

The problem is that the pacman node-gyp and npm -g node-gyp are installed in /usr/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/, while when installing it's using /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/

I think you might wanna reinstall npm, and make sure you only have one installation of it at a time. Haven't been able to reproduce the issue on my end.

Answer 11 · 2021-11-27T01:31:19.000Z

It seems like /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/ should not have been there, wasn't part of my node or npm installation, removed it and it seems to work. Thanks for the help!

Answer 12 · 2021-11-27T01:34:53.000Z

Oh, interesting, i wonder how that got there then. Glad you could get it working!

Answer 13 · 2021-11-27T02:47:07.000Z

Yeah it's super weird, no idea how it got there, maybe from like a previous version of the package? that should've been removed if so though.

Answer 14 · 2021-11-27T02:55:46.000Z

I just checked on my system (Up-to-date Arch install that i've had for a few years), and I too have /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp. In theory that folder should be owned by the pacman package npm which I have installed, but it isn't.
Could be a remnant from an old version, or updating npm using itself requires it as a build dependency? Oh well, can't be very important lol.