Nwb: Installing nwb failed due to `Failed at the [email protected] install script`

[ivanasetiawan]

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• Question / support request

I ran npm install -g nwb but it failed to Failed at the [email protected] install script.
My node -v is v8.9.1 & npm 5.6.0

[insin]

Does this work?

npm install -g --unsafe-perm nwb

[Carr1005]

I have encountered a similar issue today, but not sure if @ivanasetiawan has the same one?
In my situation, the output just mentioned that :
tar (child): bzip2: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
Cause I'm using a very minimal docker debian base image, so I don't have bzip2 that tar need to uncompress .bz2 file for installing phantomjs-prebuilt.
So I just install it and everything goes cool.
apt-get install bzip2

Full related error information :

root@32f0ad0b58ca:/# npm install -g nwb
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: All versions below 4.0.1 of Nodemailer are deprecated. See https://nodemailer.com/status/
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Use uuid module instead
/usr/bin/nwb -> /usr/lib/node_modules/nwb/lib/bin/nwb.js

> [email protected] install /usr/lib/node_modules/nwb/node_modules/uws
> node-gyp rebuild > build_log.txt 2>&1 || exit 0


> [email protected] install /usr/lib/node_modules/nwb/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt
> node install.js

PhantomJS not found on PATH
Download already available at /tmp/phantomjs/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
Verified checksum of previously downloaded file
Extracting tar contents (via spawned process)
Error extracting archive
Phantom installation failed { Error: Command failed: tar jxf /tmp/phantomjs/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
tar (child): bzip2: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

    at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:199:12)
    at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
    at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:920:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:230:5)
  killed: false,
  code: 2,
  signal: null,
  cmd: 'tar jxf /tmp/phantomjs/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2' } Error: Command failed: tar jxf /tmp/phantomjs/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
tar (child): bzip2: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

    at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:199:12)
    at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
    at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:920:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:230:5)
/usr/lib
`-- (empty)

npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@^1.0.0 (node_modules/nwb/node_modules/chokidar/node_modules/fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for [email protected]: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of [email protected] but none was installed.
npm ERR! Linux 4.4.27-moby
npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "nwb"
npm ERR! node v6.12.3
npm ERR! npm  v3.10.10
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! [email protected] install: `node install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script 'node install.js'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the phantomjs-prebuilt package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node install.js
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR!     npm bugs phantomjs-prebuilt
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls phantomjs-prebuilt
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /npm-debug.log
npm ERR! code 1

[ivanasetiawan]

OK after trying many things.. I solved this error by uninstalling yarn.

[dnfield]

Any chance you could make Phantom a peer dependency? I'm behind a proxy at work and cannot install PhantomJS.

As a temporary workaround I create a dummy executable in /usr/local/bin but it's not ideal. I'd like to be able to have my team install this and not need to fake having Phantom installed (or have Phantom installed at all):

#!/bin/bash

echo 2.1.1

And then npm i -g --unsafe-perm nwb

At some point they're supposed to fix what's blocking Phantom for us, but it'd be nice to not strictly require it to use NWB's other functionality

[jbadeau]

Please make phantom a peer dependency.