Sharp: Something went wrong installing the "sharp" module

[peterayeniofficial]

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ERROR

Something went wrong installing the "sharp" module

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

• Remove the "node_modules/sharp" directory, run "npm install" and look for errors
• Consult the installation documentation at https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/en/stable/install/
• Search for this error at https://github.com/lovell/sharp/issues

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Did you see the documentation relating to installation?

Yes

Have you ensured the platform and version of Node.js used for npm install is the same as the platform and version of Node.js used at runtime?

yes

If you are installing as a root or sudo user, have you tried with the npm install --unsafe-perm flag?

yes

What is the complete output of running npm install --verbose sharp? Have you checked this output for useful error messages?

vt git:(master) ✗ npm install --verbose sharp
npm info it worked if it ends with ok
npm verb cli [ '/Users/peterayeni/.nvm/versions/node/v8.16.1/bin/node',
npm verb cli '/Users/peterayeni/.nvm/versions/node/v8.16.1/bin/npm',
npm verb cli 'install',
npm verb cli '--verbose',
npm verb cli 'sharp' ]
npm info using [email protected]
npm info using [email protected]
npm verb npm-session 992dd9a95f6d200d
npm http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/sharp 124ms (from cache)
npm timing stage:loadCurrentTree Completed in 6827ms
npm timing stage:loadIdealTree:cloneCurrentTree Completed in 51ms
npm timing stage:loadIdealTree:loadShrinkwrap Completed in 4298ms
npm http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/npmlog 52ms (from cache)
npm http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/detect-libc 95ms (from cache)
npm http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/tar 92ms (from cache)
npm http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/prebuild-install 93ms (from cache)
npm http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/simple-get 109ms (from cache)
npm http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/semver 116ms (from cache)
npm http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/gauge 40ms (from cache)
npm http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/string-width 48ms (from cache)
npm http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/expand-template 48ms (from cache)
npm http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/napi-build-utils 47ms (from cache)
npm http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/which-pm-runs 48ms (from cache)
npm http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/node-abi 51ms (from cache)
npm http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/tar-fs 54ms (from cache)
npm http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/decompress-response 41ms (from cache)
npm http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/simple-concat 40ms (from cache)
npm http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/mimic-response 30ms (from cache)
npm http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/tar-stream 29ms (from cache)
npm http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/readable-stream 36ms (from cache)
npm http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/minipass 129ms (from cache)
npm http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/minizlib 134ms (from cache)
npm http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/yallist 133ms (from cache)
npm http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/fs-minipass 135ms (from cache)
npm timing stage:loadIdealTree:loadAllDepsIntoIdealTree Completed in 12858ms
npm timing stage:loadIdealTree Completed in 20304ms
npm timing stage:generateActionsToTake Completed in 403ms
npm verb correctMkdir /Users/peterayeni/.npm/_locks correctMkdir not in flight; initializing
npm verb lock using /Users/peterayeni/.npm/_locks/staging-9ec48310b3434d54.lock for /Users/peterayeni/Desktop/vt/node_modules/.staging
npm timing audit compress Completed in 61ms
npm info audit Submitting payload of 241243bytes
npm timing action:extract Completed in 342ms
npm info lifecycle [email protected]~preuninstall: [email protected]
npm info lifecycle [email protected]~uninstall: [email protected]
npm verb unbuild rmStuff [email protected] from /Users/peterayeni/Desktop/vt/node_modules
npm info lifecycle [email protected]~postuninstall: [email protected]
npm timing action:unbuild Completed in 5ms
npm timing action:remove Completed in 18ms
npm timing action:finalize Completed in 8ms
npm timing action:refresh-package-json Completed in 12ms
npm info lifecycle [email protected]~preinstall: [email protected]
npm timing action:preinstall Completed in 0ms
npm info linkStuff [email protected]
npm timing action:build Completed in 1ms
npm info lifecycle [email protected]~install: [email protected]
npm info lifecycle [email protected]~install: ignored because ignore-scripts is set to true [email protected]
npm timing action:install Completed in 4ms
npm info lifecycle [email protected]~postinstall: [email protected]
npm timing action:postinstall Completed in 0ms
npm verb unlock done using /Users/peterayeni/.npm/_locks/staging-9ec48310b3434d54.lock for /Users/peterayeni/Desktop/vt/node_modules/.staging
npm timing stage:executeActions Completed in 420ms
npm timing stage:rollbackFailedOptional Completed in 1ms
npm timing stage:runTopLevelLifecycles Completed in 29213ms
npm verb saving [ { name: 'sharp', spec: '^0.23.4', save: 'dependencies' } ]
npm verb shrinkwrap skipping write for package.json because there were no changes.
npm info lifecycle undefined~preshrinkwrap: undefined
npm info lifecycle undefined~shrinkwrap: undefined
npm timing audit submit Completed in 4444ms
npm http fetch POST 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/-/npm/v1/security/audits/quick 4444ms
npm timing audit body Completed in 7ms
npm verb shrinkwrap skipping write for package-lock.json because there were no changes.
npm info lifecycle undefined~postshrinkwrap: undefined

• [email protected]
  updated 1 package and audited 568105 packages in 33.34s
  found 1970 vulnerabilities (1565 low, 146 moderate, 259 high)
  run npm audit fix to fix them, or npm audit for details
  npm verb exit [ 0, true ]
  npm timing npm Completed in 33761ms
  npm info ok

What is the output of running npx envinfo --binaries --languages --system --utilities?

System:
OS: macOS 10.15.2
CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8279U CPU @ 2.40GHz
Memory: 22.57 MB / 8.00 GB
Shell: 5.7.1 - /bin/zsh
Binaries:
Node: 8.16.1 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v8.16.1/bin/node
Yarn: 1.21.1 - ~/.yarn/bin/yarn
npm: 2.15.12 - ~/Desktop/vt/node_modules/.bin/npm
Watchman: 4.9.0 - /usr/local/bin/watchman
Utilities:
CMake: 3.15.4 - /usr/local/bin/cmake
Make: 3.81 - /usr/bin/make
GCC: 4.2.1 - /usr/bin/gcc
Git: 2.23.0 - /usr/local/bin/git
Languages:
Bash: 3.2.57 - /bin/bash
Go: 1.13.4 - /usr/local/go/bin/go
Perl: 5.18.4 - /usr/bin/perl
PHP: 7.3.9 - /usr/bin/php
Python: 2.7.16 - /usr/bin/python
Ruby: 2.6.1 - /Users/peterayeni/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.6.1/bin/ruby

[lovell]

The salient part of this log is:

npm info lifecycle [email protected]: ignored because ignore-scripts is set to true [email protected]

You'll need to set this to false via something like npm config set ignore-scripts false.

[peterayeniofficial]

Thank you very much this works. :)