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Reputation: 1645

Need some help decoding an npm error message from a meteor package installation

I'm trying to install a package for meteor on the command line interface, but I keep getting an error. I have tried reinstalling node and npm, but error persists. I have no idea how to proceed.

Here is the message I get in the CLI:

USERs-MacBook-Pro:meteor USER$ sudo npm -g install meteor-em

> [email protected] install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/meteor-em/node_modules/fibers
> node ./build.js

gyp WARN EACCES user "root" does not have permission to access the dev dir "/Users/USER/.node-gyp/0.10.34"
gyp WARN EACCES attempting to reinstall using temporary dev dir "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/meteor-em/node_modules/fibers/.node-gyp"
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/input.py:873: Warning: 'as' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/gyp_main.py", line 11, in <module>
    import gyp
  File "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
    import gyp.input
  File "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/input.py", line 873
    except ImportError as e:
                        ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
gyp ERR! configure error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:343:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:820:12)
gyp ERR! System Darwin 13.4.0
gyp ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/meteor-em/node_modules/fibers
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.34
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v1.0.2
gyp ERR! not ok 
Build failed
npm ERR! Darwin 13.4.0
npm ERR! argv "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "-g" "install" "meteor-em"
npm ERR! node v0.10.34
npm ERR! npm  v2.1.14
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! [email protected] install: `node ./build.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script 'node ./build.js'.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the fibers package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node ./build.js
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls fibers
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /Users/USER/Code/Meteor/npm-debug.log
USERs-MacBook-Pro:meteor USER$

Updates:

-Interesting detail: I was never prompted for my password

-found a discussion thread on the topic. Reading through it now:

-just installed node-gyp

-also installed node-fibers

Upvotes: 0

Views: 909

Answers (2)

mzalazar
mzalazar

Reputation: 6586

I did an "apt-get install -y build-essential" and everything was fine after that ;-)

Upvotes: 1

Goodword
Goodword

Reputation: 1645

I just upgraded from python 2.5.4 to 2.7.9. I was told that that might help....And it did!

Upvotes: 0

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