Question:
On an Ubuntu Server 14.04 on an Amazon EC2 instance, I had an error when doing npm install. It failed to install bcrypt ("bcrypt": "^0.8.1"in my package.json).
Here’s the error I had:
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> bcrypt@0.8.1 install /home/ubuntu/app/node_modules/bcrypt > node-gyp rebuild child_process: customFds option is deprecated, use stdio instead. make: Entering directory `/home/ubuntu/app/node_modules/bcrypt/build' CXX(target) Release/obj.target/bcrypt_lib/src/blowfish.o make: g++: Command not found make: *** [Release/obj.target/bcrypt_lib/src/blowfish.o] Error 127 make: Leaving directory `/home/ubuntu/app/node_modules/bcrypt/build' gyp ERR! build error gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2 gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (/home/ubuntu/node-v0.12.0-linux-x64/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:267:23) gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:110:17) gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:1067:12) gyp ERR! System Linux 3.13.0-44-generic gyp ERR! command "node" "/home/ubuntu/node-v0.12.0-linux-x64/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild" gyp ERR! cwd /home/ubuntu/app/node_modules/bcrypt gyp ERR! node -v v0.12.0 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v1.0.2 gyp ERR! not ok |
Answer:
I just had to install the build tools sudo apt-get install build-essential g++
Note that you have to apt-get update to avoid any problem with apt-get on EC2 (otherwise you might end up with E: Failed to fetch…
Then npm install again and you’re good to go!