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King Mity
King Mity

Reputation: 31

installing node-gd in ubuntu

when I install node-gd lib, I'm getting the following warning:

root@iZ25mlpjokyZ:~# npm install node-gd
/
> [email protected] install /root/node_modules/node-gd
> node-gyp rebuild

gyp WARN EACCES user "root" does not have permission to access the dev dir "/root/.node-gyp/4.3.1"
gyp WARN EACCES attempting to reinstall using temporary dev dir "/root/node_modules/node-gd/.node-gyp"
gyp WARN EACCES user "root" does not have permission to access the dev dir "/root/node_modules/node-gd/.node-gyp/4.3.1"
gyp WARN EACCES attempting to reinstall using temporary dev dir "/root/node_modules/node-gd/.node-gyp"

Upvotes: 1

Views: 307

Answers (2)

SuperUser Sudo
SuperUser Sudo

Reputation: 295

the package on website tells us to install libgd2-dev using ubuntu package manager as

sudo apt-get install libgd2-dev

but this package is not available in the source list the thing that worked for me is as follows

sudo apt-get isntall libgd-dev 
npm i node-gd --save

Upvotes: 0

King Mity
King Mity

Reputation: 31

Thanks. I solved it with the following commands:

apt-get install g++ gcc
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

Upvotes: 2

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