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Try updating node-gyp: (as superuser) npm install -g node-gyp@latest since your version is out of date by an entire major release.

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I'm using arch and node-gyp is installed via pacman, so using npm to update it would probably break the package unfortunately, so I'll probably hold off on that. I do have version 8.2.0, which is only 2 minor versions behind though.

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For whatever reason then, npm is grabbing some other installation of node-gyp on your system, judging by this:

npm ERR! gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v7.1.2
npm ERR! gyp ERR! Node-gyp failed to build your package.
npm ERR! gyp ERR! Try to update npm and/or node-gyp and if it does not help file an issue with the package author.```

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Seems like it's trying to use the node-gyp bundled with my npm installation instead of my global one, so seems to be something on my end.

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if you have node-gyp bundled with npm already, npm install -g node-gyp@latest would update it and not affect the pacman package any more than it already does, no? worth a try.
Or maybe just remove the npm-bundled version and hope that it defaults to the pacman version.

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same problem here

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i use arch linux btw

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i too use arch btw but mine's better than yours because i also use dwm

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if you have node-gyp bundled with npm already, npm install -g node-gyp@latest would update it and not affect the pacman package any more than it already does, no? worth a try.

Or maybe just remove the npm-bundled version and hope that it defaults to the pacman version.

The problem is that the pacman node-gyp and npm -g node-gyp are installed in /usr/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/, while when installing it's using /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/

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The problem is that the pacman node-gyp and npm -g node-gyp are installed in /usr/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/, while when installing it's using /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/

I think you might wanna reinstall npm, and make sure you only have one installation of it at a time. Haven't been able to reproduce the issue on my end.

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It seems like /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/ should not have been there, wasn't part of my node or npm installation, removed it and it seems to work. Thanks for the help!

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Oh, interesting, i wonder how that got there then. Glad you could get it working!

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Yeah it's super weird, no idea how it got there, maybe from like a previous version of the package? that should've been removed if so though.

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I just checked on my system (Up-to-date Arch install that i've had for a few years), and I too have /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp. In theory that folder should be owned by the pacman package npm which I have installed, but it isn't.
Could be a remnant from an old version, or updating npm using itself requires it as a build dependency? Oh well, can't be very important lol.

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