I am getting python2 failed errors on npm install

Question

I am getting errors when running npm install in windows powershell, I need to be using node version 8.11.1 so I am using nvm to do so. I tried downgrading to python 2.7 but that didn't work so I upgraded back to python 3.7 still didn't work. Here is my outputted error, any help would be greatly appreciated. This is the project I am trying to run https://github.com/jadnco/static-boilerplate

I have also tried deleting my node modules each time, a package-lock.json is never even generated so i didn't delete that.

npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: 🙌  Thanks for using Babel: we recommend using babel-preset-env now: please read babeljs.io/env to update!
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: gulp-util is deprecated - replace it, following the guidelines at https://medium.com/gulpjs/gulp-util-ca3b1f9f9ac5
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Browserslist 2 could fail on reading Browserslist >3.0 config used in other tools.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: please upgrade to graceful-fs 4 for compatibility with current and future versions of Node.js
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: please upgrade to graceful-fs 4 for compatibility with current and future versions of Node.js

> [email protected] install C:\Users\andersk\sites\forkable-email-template\node_modules\node-sass
> node scripts/install.js

Downloading binary from https://github.com/sass/node-sass/releases/download/v3.13.1/win32-x64-64_binding.node
Cannot download "https://github.com/sass/node-sass/releases/download/v3.13.1/win32-x64-64_binding.node":

HTTP error 404 Not Found

Hint: If github.com is not accessible in your location
      try setting a proxy via HTTP_PROXY, e.g.

      export HTTP_PROXY=http://example.com:1234

or configure npm proxy via

      npm config set proxy http://example.com:8080

> [email protected] postinstall C:\Users\andersk\sites\forkable-email-template\node_modules\node-sass
> node scripts/build.js

Building: C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe C:\Users\andersk\sites\forkable-email-template\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js rebuild --verbose --libsass_ext= --libsass_cflags= --libsass_ldflags= --libsass_library=
gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
gyp verb cli [ 'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe',
gyp verb cli   'C:\\Users\\andersk\\sites\\forkable-email-template\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js',
gyp verb cli   'rebuild',
gyp verb cli   '--verbose',
gyp verb cli   '--libsass_ext=',
gyp verb cli   '--libsass_cflags=',
gyp verb cli   '--libsass_ldflags=',
gyp verb cli   '--libsass_library=' ]
gyp info using [email protected]
gyp info using [email protected] | win32 | x64
gyp verb command rebuild []
gyp verb command clean []
gyp verb clean removing "build" directory
gyp verb command configure []
gyp verb check python checking for Python executable "python2" in the PATH
gyp verb `which` failed Error: not found: python2
gyp verb `which` failed     at getNotFoundError (C:\Users\andersk\sites\forkable-email-template\node_modules\which\which.js:13:12)
gyp verb `which` failed     at F (C:\Users\andersk\sites\forkable-email-template\node_modules\which\which.js:68:19)
gyp verb `which` failed     at E (C:\Users\andersk\sites\forkable-email-template\node_modules\which\which.js:80:29)
gyp verb `which` failed     at C:\Users\andersk\sites\forkable-email-template\node_modules\which\which.js:89:16
gyp verb `which` failed     at C:\Users\andersk\sites\forkable-email-template\node_modules\isexe\index.js:42:5
gyp verb `which` failed     at C:\Users\andersk\sites\forkable-email-template\node_modules\isexe\windows.js:36:5
gyp verb `which` failed     at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:154:21)
gyp verb `which` failed  python2 { Error: not found: python2
gyp verb `which` failed     at getNotFoundError (C:\Users\andersk\sites\forkable-email-template\node_modules\which\which.js:13:12)
gyp verb `which` failed     at F (C:\Users\andersk\sites\forkable-email-template\node_modules\which\which.js:68:19)
gyp verb `which` failed     at E (C:\Users\andersk\sites\forkable-email-template\node_modules\which\which.js:80:29)
gyp verb `which` failed     at C:\Users\andersk\sites\forkable-email-template\node_modules\which\which.js:89:16
gyp verb `which` failed     at C:\Users\andersk\sites\forkable-email-template\node_modules\isexe\index.js:42:5
gyp verb `which` failed     at C:\Users\andersk\sites\forkable-email-template\node_modules\isexe\windows.js:36:5
gyp verb `which` failed     at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:154:21)
gyp verb `which` failed   stack:
gyp verb `which` failed    'Error: not found: python2\n    at getNotFoundError (C:\\Users\\andersk\\sites\\forkable-email-template\\node_modules\\which\\which.js:13:12)\n    at F (C:\\Users\\andersk\\sites\\forkable-email-template\\node_modules\\which\\which.js:68:19)\n    at E (C:\\Users\\andersk\\sites\\forkable-email-template\\node_modules\\which\\which.js:80:29)\n    at C:\\Users\\andersk\\sites\\forkable-email-template\\node_modules\\which\\which.js:89:16\n    at C:\\Users\\andersk\\sites\\forkable-email-template\\node_modules\\isexe\\index.js:42:5\n    at C:\\Users\\andersk\\sites\\forkable-email-template\\node_modules\\isexe\\windows.js:36:5\n    at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:154:21)',
gyp verb `which` failed   code: 'ENOENT' }
gyp verb check python checking for Python executable "python" in the PATH
gyp verb `which` succeeded python C:\Python37\python.EXE
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: Command failed: C:\Python37\python.EXE -c import sys; print "%s.%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:3];
gyp ERR! stack   File "<string>", line 1
gyp ERR! stack     import sys; print "%s.%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:3];
gyp ERR! stack                                ^
gyp ERR! stack SyntaxError: invalid syntax
gyp ERR! stack
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:289:12)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:182:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:962:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:251:5)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.17763
gyp ERR! command "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Users\\andersk\\sites\\forkable-email-template\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild" "--verbose" "--libsass_ext=" "--libsass_cflags=" "--libsass_ldflags=" "--libsass_library="
gyp ERR! cwd C:\Users\andersk\sites\forkable-email-template\node_modules\node-sass
gyp ERR! node -v v10.13.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok
Build failed with error code: 1
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: [email protected] (node_modules\fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for [email protected]: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"})

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] postinstall: `node scripts/build.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\andersk\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2019-01-18T22_17_30_755Z-debug.log

Answer 1

Try installing GetText from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gettext.htm. Make sure you add C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin to the PATH