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Swastik
Swastik

Reputation: 531

Why sometime node package installation throws python not found error?

I am bit new to Node js. Sometime back when I was installing a node package It threw a runtime error said python not found or something like that. After successful installation of python it worked. My question is why we need python to install a node package? Can anyone explain

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Answers (1)

Origine
Origine

Reputation: 49

One of the dependencies of Node.js is GYP (https://gyp.gsrc.io/docs/UserDocumentation.md) which is written in Python.

You can read more abbout that on the official Node.js's dependencies documentation: https://nodejs.org/en/docs/meta/topics/dependencies/

Upvotes: 1

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