Sharp: Unable to install sharp

[Nickk4]

What are you trying to achieve?
Install sharp and subsequently other node modules.

Have you searched for similar questions?
Unable to find a solution

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Unfortunately no

The problem
When I npm install sharp, I get the following output:

[email protected] install /projects/user-portal/node_modules/sharp
node-gyp rebuild

make ✖ ERR  Missing Makefile / Bakefile
make ℹ info Run "make init" to generate a Makefile.

There seems to be some kind of error but installation still passes. I have run make init but that made no difference for what I write below.

Then when I run other scripts I get the error:

Error: Cannot find module '../build/Release/sharp.node'

And although there has been a folder created called /node_modules/sharp/build, and there is content, it does not include a subfolder called Release.

Googling teaches me “Missing Makefile / Bakefile” has to do with the node module “make”. But how to solve this?

I've also tried running sudo npm install sharp, which results in:

[email protected] install /projects/user-portal/node_modules/sharp
node-gyp rebuild

gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/projects/user-portal/node_modules/sharp/build'
gyp ERR! System Linux 3.10.0-957.21.3.el7.x86_64
gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /projects/user-portal/node_modules/sharp
gyp ERR! node -v v8.16.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of knex@>=0.6.10 <=0.13.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of [email protected] - 3 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of popper.js@^1.14.7 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] license should be a valid SPDX license expression
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":"linux","arch":"x64"})

[lovell]

Please can you try with the latest v0.22.1.

[Nickk4]

Sorry, I wasn't using the latest version in the first place. I updated package.json and now npm install sharp results in:

Unhandled rejection Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/home/user/.npm/_cacache/index-v5/ff/ec/1ac73f831b4be306687ec3ade736ad1a5c148745371b34e6945e71c98510'

Unhandled rejection Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/home/user/.npm/_cacache/index-v5/63/c8/28772eeccc799c7e548d1a0d34a2fc0607ee0ebb70072c0a17b47e1a8ef6'

npm ERR! cb() never called!

And sudo npm install sharp results in:

> [email protected] install /projects/user-portal/node_modules/sharp
> (node install/libvips && node install/dll-copy && prebuild-install) || (node-gyp rebuild && node install/dll-copy)

info sharp Downloading https://github.com/lovell/sharp-libvips/releases/download/v8.7.4/libvips-8.7.4-linux-x64.tar.gz
ERR! sharp EACCES: permission denied, open '/projects/user-portal/node_modules/sharp/830-libvips-8.7.4-linux-x64.tar.gz'
info sharp Attempting to build from source via node-gyp but this may fail due to the above error
info sharp Please see https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/page/install for required dependencies
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/projects/user-portal/node_modules/sharp/build'
gyp ERR! System Linux 3.10.0-957.21.3.el7.x86_64
gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /projects/user-portal/node_modules/sharp
gyp ERR! node -v v8.16.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok
npm WARN [email protected] license should be a valid SPDX license expression

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] install: `(node install/libvips && node install/dll-copy && prebuild-install) || (node-gyp rebuild && node install/dll-copy)`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

[lovell]

Avoid using sudo with npm install where possible. If you absolutely have to use sudo then add the npm install --unsafe-perm flag.

[Nickk4]

Got I solved as follows (as per instructions here):

• sudo apt remove nodejs npm to remove Node and npm
• sudo rm -rf to delete node_modules folder and npm folder
• sudo apt-get install nodejs to install again Node and npm
• npm install sharp works again.

[martianvenusian]

Avoid using sudo with npm install where possible. If you absolutely have to use sudo then add the npm install --unsafe-perm flag.

This was the only way I could install 'shapr'

[tajchana1]

Error: EROFS: read-only file system, mkdir '/user' any ideas ?