Truffle: installation fails with error code: 128

[mkno]

running npm -g install embark on node 8.1.2, ubuntu 16.04

Here's a dump of the error log, the last dozen of lines:

462 silly resolveWithNewModule [email protected] checking installable status
463 silly pacote range manifest for spdx-expression-parse@~1.0.0 fetched in 14ms
464 silly resolveWithNewModule [email protected] checking installable status
465 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/spdx-license-ids 4ms (from cache)
466 silly pacote range manifest for spdx-license-ids@^1.0.2 fetched in 6ms
467 silly resolveWithNewModule [email protected] checking installable status
468 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/camelcase 4ms (from cache)
469 silly pacote range manifest for camelcase@^3.0.0 fetched in 6ms
470 silly resolveWithNewModule [email protected] checking installable status
471 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/utf8 44ms (from cache)
472 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/xmlhttprequest 43ms (from cache)
473 silly pacote range manifest for utf8@^2.1.1 fetched in 49ms
474 silly resolveWithNewModule [email protected] checking installable status
475 silly pacote range manifest for xmlhttprequest@* fetched in 49ms
476 silly resolveWithNewModule [email protected] checking installable status
477 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/xhr2 52ms
478 silly pacote range manifest for xhr2@* fetched in 55ms
479 silly resolveWithNewModule [email protected] checking installable status
480 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/crypto-js 64ms (from cache)
481 silly pacote range manifest for crypto-js@^3.1.4 fetched in 66ms
482 silly resolveWithNewModule [email protected] checking installable status
483 silly fetchPackageMetaData error for bignumber.js@git+https://github.com/debris/bignumber.js.git#94d7146671b9719e00a09c29b$
484 verbose stack Error: exited with error code: 128
484 verbose stack at ChildProcess.onexit (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mississippi/node_modules/end-of-stream/in$
484 verbose stack at emitTwo (events.js:125:13)
484 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:213:7)
484 verbose stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:197:12)
485 verbose cwd /home/bc
486 verbose Linux 4.4.0-81-generic
487 verbose argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "-g" "install" "embark"
488 verbose node v8.1.2
489 verbose npm v5.0.3
490 error exited with error code: 128
491 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

[acrylix]

experiencing similar issue with bignumber.js

can we please have https://github.com/debris/bignumber.js.git back up? or use another dependency? seems like this repo is either changed to private or completely removed, which causes many things like testrpc and truffle-contract to fail to install

[zzzmanzzz]

you can try sudo npm install -g truffle@beta
it works for me on ubuntu 16.04LTS

[mik1893]

it does install truffle but still when running
truffle init webpack
you get the errors back

[mkno]

it just stays like this forever:

Downloading project...
Installing dependencies...

but there's bunch of files and folders generated.

[tcoulter]

I'm going to close this. The bignumber issue should be fixed. Also, please direct embark installation issues to the embark-framework repo. Thanks!