install bcrypt on ubuntu ec2

Question

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/node-                    gyp/lib/build.js:267:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:107:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:1045:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 3.2.0-40-virtual
gyp ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /home/ubuntu/grooform/fungroo/node_modules/bcrypt
gyp ERR! node -v v0.11.12
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.12.2
gyp ERR! not ok 
npm ERR! bcrypt@0.8.0 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the bcrypt@0.8.0 install script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the bcrypt package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls bcrypt
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! System Linux 3.2.0-40-virtual
npm ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! cwd /home/ubuntu/grooform/fungroo
npm ERR! node -v v0.11.12
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.3
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! 

npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in: npm ERR! /home/ubuntu/grooform/fungroo/npm-debug.log npm ERR! not ok code 0

I have installed libcurl4-openssl-dev too but still m getting same error also i have installed python and set HOME to point to /home/ubuntu

can you please help..

TRIED ON A FRESH UBUNTU getting following error

gyp: Call to 'node -e "require('nan')"' returned exit status 1. while trying to load binding.gyp
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/pause/0.0.1
gyp ERR! configure error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/share/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:431:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:797:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 3.13.0-36-generic
gyp ERR! command "nodejs" "/usr/bin/node-gyp" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /home/ubuntu/fungroo/node_modules/bcrypt
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.25
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.10.10
gyp ERR! not ok 
npm WARN This failure might be due to the use of legacy binary "node"
npm WARN For further explanations, please read
/usr/share/doc/nodejs/README.Debian

npm ERR! weird error 1

Answer 1

nan has issues with some (older) versions of the node v0.11 unstable branch, so you will need to upgrade your unstable node version (v0.11.14 is the latest as of this writing) or use a stable version of node (v0.10.33 as of this writing).