Sharp: Cannot update sharp on Mac OS

[RPCarter53]

I have attempted to update Node, NPM, Puppeteer et al. I have a problem in that sharp errors when I try and update. I am issuing. the command 'npm update sharp' and get the following output:

[email protected] install /Users/AUser/Puppeteer/node_modules/sharp
(node install/libvips && node install/dll-copy && prebuild-install) || (node-gyp rebuild && node install/dll-copy)

info sharp Using cached /Users/AUser/.npm/_libvips/libvips-8.7.4-darwin-x64.tar.gz
prebuild-install WARN install No prebuilt binaries found (target=13.3.0 runtime=node arch=x64 libc= platform=darwin)
TOUCH Release/obj.target/libvips-cpp.stamp
CXX(target) Release/obj.target/sharp/src/common.o
CXX(target) Release/obj.target/sharp/src/metadata.o
CXX(target) Release/obj.target/sharp/src/stats.o
../src/stats.cc:130:19: error: no matching member function for call to 'Set'
channels->Set(i, channelStat);
~~^~~
/Users/AUser/Library/Caches/node-gyp/13.3.0/include/node/v8.h:3547:37: note: candidate function not viable: requires 3 arguments, but 2 were
provided
V8_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT Maybe Set(Local context,
^
/Users/AUser/Library/Caches/node-gyp/13.3.0/include/node/v8.h:3550:37: note: candidate function not viable: requires 3 arguments, but 2 were
provided
V8_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT Maybe Set(Local context, uint32_t index,
^
1 error generated.
make: * [Release/obj.target/sharp/src/stats.o] Error 1
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: make failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:194:23)
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:219:5)
gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:274:12)
gyp ERR! System Darwin 19.0.0
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/Cellar/node/13.3.0/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /Users/AUser/Puppeteer/node_modules/sharp
gyp ERR! node -v v13.3.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v5.0.5
gyp ERR! not ok
npm WARN [email protected] No repository field.

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.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /Users/AUser
2019-12-11T10_53_30_298Z-debug.log
/.npm/_logs/2019-12-11T10_53_30_298Z-debug.log

[lovell]

Support for Node.js 13 was added in sharp v0.23.2.

https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/en/stable/changelog/#v0232-28th-october-2019

[RPCarter53]

I am not questioning that the version of node is supported, I am just unable to update sharp as described above.

[lovell]

The npm update command will only update as far as the semver range defined in your package.json file will allow.

https://semver.npmjs.com/

[RPCarter53]

With those few words, the problem is resolved.

Thank you.