Fsevents: Not support error

[pddkhanh]

Hi, I got this error while trying to install on my Ubuntu server:

npm ERR! Linux 4.4.0-x86_64-linode63
npm ERR! argv "/opt/node/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "i" "fsevents"
npm ERR! node v5.6.0
npm ERR! npm v3.6.0
npm ERR! code EBADPLATFORM

npm ERR! notsup Not compatible with your operating system or architecture: [email protected]
npm ERR! notsup Valid OS: darwin
npm ERR! notsup Valid Arch: any
npm ERR! notsup Actual OS: linux
npm ERR! notsup Actual Arch: x64

[es128]

You should not be trying to install this on Linux. If it is a dependency of another package, it should be listed with optionalDependencies so that npm can bypass it with an unobtrusive warning.

If a shrinkwrap file is involved, see this comment for a potential workaround: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/2679#issuecomment-150084700

[thany]

Running into this as well.
Warnings are ugly. Errors are worse.

Better to either:
1) Let the package install and silently do nothing if not on Mac
2) Make the package not install itself (silently) without puking out errors on other OSes

[netblink-cobreen]

Hi,
I'm trying to build-from-source node-sass and got stuck on extracting [email protected]
Can somebody tell me why fsevents is going to install itself into android system?

- extract:fsevents: sill extract [email protected] extracted to /data/data/com.termux/

[paulmillr]

@netblink-cobreen something is wrong with your build process, fsevents is not fetched by npm for non-macos OSes.

[3bars]

Now that Apple is releasing ARM64 based machines and test machines are out in the wild can you please update FSEvents to not puke and fail install on other Ones

[paulmillr]

@3bars we don't fail on arm. We check if the os kernel is darwin. Darwin on arm is still darwin.