unable to install with npm

[greaneym]

I can't install the jsonld-cli because npm fails on installing contextify. contextify@0.1.15 install: node-gyp rebuild npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the contextify@0.1.15 install script 'node-gyp rebuild'. npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the contextify package, npm ERR! not with npm itself.

How do I fix this please? I am not an expert node.js user. thanks,

[mattcollier]

@greaneym Take a look at these installation prerequisites: https://github.com/brianmcd/contextify#installation-issues

[greaneym]

Hi, thanks for the page info. I updated the node-gyp version install but that is still calling contexify.

The version of node I am using does not need contexify. I tried installing jsonld-cli by asking node to --skip=contextify but that did not work. Any suggestions on how to install without contexify? Thanks.

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 12:34 PM, mattcollier notifications@github.com wrote:

@greaneym https://github.com/greaneym Take a look at these installation prerequisites: https://github.com/brianmcd/contextify#installation-issues

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[mattcollier]

At this time, this module still depends on contextify, so you will want to make sure it can build properly with node-gyp which means that you'll need to make sure that you you have setup all the node-gyp dependencies for your OS enumerated here: https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp#installation

[greaneym]

thanks will take a look.

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 1:11 PM, mattcollier notifications@github.com wrote:

At this time, this module still depends on contextify, so you will want to make sure it can build properly with node-gyp which means that you'll need to make sure that you you have setup all the node-gyp dependencies for your OS enumerated here: https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp#installation

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[jaw111]

Seems this is still an issue... is there a pre-built version available for download?

[jaw111]

2727 silly lifecycle contextify@0.1.15~install: Args: [ '/d /s /c', 'node-gyp rebuild' ]
2728 silly lifecycle contextify@0.1.15~install: Returned: code: 1  signal: null
2729 info lifecycle contextify@0.1.15~install: Failed to exec install script
2730 verbose unlock done using C:\Users\nlv01111\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_locks\staging-d866d42d2696256f.lock for C:\Users\nlv01111\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\.staging
2731 verbose stack Error: contextify@0.1.15 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
2731 verbose stack Exit status 1
2731 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\index.js:280:16)
2731 verbose stack     at emitTwo (events.js:126:13)
2731 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:214:7)
2731 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\lib\spawn.js:55:14)
2731 verbose stack     at emitTwo (events.js:126:13)
2731 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:214:7)
2731 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:925:16)
2731 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:209:5)
2732 verbose pkgid contextify@0.1.15
2733 verbose cwd C:\Windows\system32
2734 verbose Windows_NT 6.1.7601
2735 verbose argv "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "-g" "jsonld-cli"
2736 verbose node v8.9.1
2737 verbose npm  v5.5.1
2738 error code ELIFECYCLE
2739 error errno 1
2740 error contextify@0.1.15 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
2740 error Exit status 1
2741 error Failed at the contextify@0.1.15 install script.
2741 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
2742 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

[davidlehn]

I'm not sure what the problem was above, but contextify was causing issues for everyone. I updated jsonld-cli and jsonld-request dependencies and things install again on linux with a recent node.

[jaw111]

@davidlehn yes, that has solved the problem, thanks for the prompt response :+1: