Unable to install NPM

Question

I am trying to install NPM on a repository that I have locally cloned from GitHub. This is the error that I receive. Please let me know what I should do to resolve this.

Thank You!

npm ERR! path D:\Avin Dev\portfolio\node_modules\fibers
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /d /s /c node build.js || nodejs build.js
npm ERR! gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
npm ERR! gyp info using node-gyp@3.8.0
npm ERR! gyp info using node@16.14.0 | win32 | x64
npm ERR! gyp ERR! configure error
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack Error: Command failed: C:\Program Files\Python38\python.EXE -c import sys; print "%s.%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:3];
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack   File "<string>", line 1
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     import sys; print "%s.%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:3];
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack                       ^
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack SyntaxError: invalid syntax
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.exithandler (node:child_process:399:12)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:520:28)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1092:16)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:302:5)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.22000
npm ERR! gyp ERR! command "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "D:\\Avin Dev\\portfolio\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild" "--release"
npm ERR! gyp ERR! cwd D:\Avin Dev\portfolio\node_modules\fibers
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node -v v16.14.0
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
npm ERR! gyp ERR! not ok
npm ERR! node-gyp exited with code: 1
npm ERR! Please make sure you are using a supported platform and node version. If you
npm ERR! would like to compile fibers on this machine please make sure you have setup your
npm ERR! build environment--
npm ERR! Windows + OS X instructions here: https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp
npm ERR! Ubuntu users please run: `sudo apt-get install g++ build-essential`
npm ERR! RHEL users please run: `yum install gcc-c++` and `yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'`
npm ERR! Alpine users please run: `sudo apk add python make g++`
npm ERR! 'nodejs' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
npm ERR! operable program or batch file.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:

'nodejs' is not recognized as an internal or external command — אברימי פרידמן, Feb 12 '22 at 19:00
@אברימיפרידמן thanks for pointing that out, I already have node js installed, anything else I should do or check on? — Avin Indrasoma, Feb 12 '22 at 19:20
`npm` is normally installed with Node, so if you have Node, it's already installed. Are you actually trying to install a *package* with `npm install`? What's the command you used for the error above? — tony19, Feb 12 '22 at 19:23
Possible duplicate of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35293117/npm-install-that-requires-node-gyp-fails-on-windows — Estus Flask, Feb 12 '22 at 20:17

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 12 '22 at 20:25

When a binary package is used in compatible environment, usually a precompiled binary is installed. That NPM tries to compile it is a sign that a combination Node version, CPU architecture and OS isn't supported by specified version of a binary package. fibers is a binary package known to be incompatible with Node 16.

One option is to modify the project to not depend on fibers. In the context of Vue it's likely node-sass that depends on fibers and it needs to be migrated to sass.

Another option is to downgrade to Node 14 and install the project as is.

Unable to install NPM

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