npm install apiconnect fails on macOS Catalina (v10.15.7)

Question

I the Node.js package apiconnect will not install on my new MacBook Pro. The Node.js version is v10.22.1, NPM version 6.14.6, Python 3.8.3

I ran the following command:

sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root --loglevel verbose apiconnect

The error that I receive is similar to what I received in the container ([email protected]). The error from the log:

61922 silly install [email protected]
61923 info lifecycle [email protected]~install: [email protected]
61924 verbose lifecycle [email protected]~install: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
61925 verbose lifecycle [email protected]~install: PATH: /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/node-gyp-bin:/usr/local/lib/node_modules/apiconnect/node_modules/appmetrics/node_modules/.bin:/usr/local/lib/node_modules/apiconnect/node_modules/.bin:/usr/local/lib/node_modules/.bin:/Users/steve/opt/anaconda3/bin:/Users/steve/opt/anaconda3/condabin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
61926 verbose lifecycle [email protected]~install: CWD: /usr/local/lib/node_modules/apiconnect/node_modules/appmetrics
61927 silly lifecycle [email protected]~install: Args: [ '-c', 'node extract_all_binaries.js || node-gyp rebuild' ]
61928 silly lifecycle [email protected]~install: Returned: code: 1  signal: null
61929 info lifecycle [email protected]~install: Failed to exec install script
61930 timing action:install Completed in 26347ms
61931 verbose unlock done using /Users/steve/.npm/_locks/staging-3a08f0df5026584d.lock for /usr/local/lib/node_modules/.staging
61932 timing stage:rollbackFailedOptional Completed in 8528ms
61933 timing stage:runTopLevelLifecycles Completed in 468567ms
61934 verbose stack Error: [email protected] install: `node extract_all_binaries.js || node-gyp rebuild`
61934 verbose stack Exit status 1
61934 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/index.js:332:16)
61934 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:198:13)
61934 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/lib/spawn.js:55:14)
61934 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:198:13)
61934 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:982:16)
61934 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:259:5)
61935 verbose pkgid [email protected]
61936 verbose cwd /Users/steve
61937 verbose Darwin 19.6.0
61938 verbose argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "--unsafe-perm=true" "--allow-root" "--loglevel" "verbose" "apiconnect"
61939 verbose node v10.22.1
61940 verbose npm  v6.14.6
61941 error code ELIFECYCLE
61942 error errno 1
61943 error [email protected] install: `node extract_all_binaries.js || node-gyp rebuild`
61943 error Exit status 1
61944 error Failed at the [email protected] install script.
61944 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
61945 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

Answer 1

The issue was resolved by changing the order of the directories in my PATH environment variable and running the install as sudo and using the --unsafe-perm=true and --allow-root options.

The full command used for the installation was:

sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root --loglevel verbose apiconnect

For the PATH environment variable, the installation of anaconda3 Python/Jupyter Notebook package put their directories at the front of the path. By changing the path to so that:

/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:...

where the first directories in the path, the installation worked.

Answer 2

Does this work?

npm i -g node-gyp@latest && npm config set node_gyp "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js"

node-gyp rebuild