Error installing node-gyp on ubuntu

Question

npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/weak/-/weak-0.2.2.tgz npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/bindings npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/bindings  > [email protected] install node_modules/weak > node-gyp rebuild  Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/gyp_main.py", line 18, in <module>     sys.exit(gyp.script_main()) AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'script_main' gyp ERR! configure error  gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1 gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:337:16) gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17) gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:789:12) gyp ERR! System Linux 3.11.0-15-generic gyp ERR! command "node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"  gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.15 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.12.1 gyp ERR! not ok  npm ERR! [email protected] install: `node-gyp rebuild` npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR!  npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script. npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the weak package, npm ERR! not with npm itself. npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system: npm ERR!     node-gyp rebuild npm ERR! You can get their info via: npm ERR!     npm owner ls weak npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.  npm ERR! System Linux 3.11.0-15-generic npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "[email protected]" npm ERR! node -v v0.10.15 npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.23 npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE  npm ERR! not ok code 0 

I don't have a direct dependency on weak or node-gyp but I guess it is required by my other dependencies (express,phantom,ejs,aws-sdk,moment). Anyone faced such an issue and was able to fix?

Answer 1

If your python version isn't the source of error, check if you have "gyp" installed. This is conflicting with the gyp version in node-gyp.

apt-get remove gyp

https://github.com/TooTallNate/node-gyp/issues/363#issuecomment-32234646

Answer 2

This command sudo apt-get install build-essential helped in my case.