firebase-tools: Unable to complete "npm install -g firebase-tools" command in windows 10 environment

Version info

OS - windows 10 node.js version - 8.9.4 npm version - 5.6.0

Steps to reproduce

open command prompt in selected folder
Run “npm install -g firebase-tools” command.

Expected behavior

Should be installed packages related to firebase.

Actual behavior

Getting errors while running above mentioned command…

LOG

C:\Users\Chetan\Desktop\aaa>npm install -g firebase-tools npm WARN deprecated node-uuid@1.4.8: Use uuid module instead C:\Users\Chetan\AppData\Roaming\npm\firebase -> C:\Users\Chetan\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\firebase-tools\bin\firebase

grpc@1.4.1 install C:\Users\Chetan\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\firebase-tools\node_modules\grpc node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build --library=static_library

node-pre-gyp ERR! Tried to download(undefined): https://storage.googleapis.com/grpc-precompiled-binaries/node/grpc/v1.4.1/node-v57-win32-x64.tar.gz node-pre-gyp ERR! Pre-built binaries not found for grpc@1.4.1 and node@8.9.4 (node-v57 ABI) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp) gyp ERR! configure error gyp ERR! stack Error: Can’t find Python executable “python”, you can set the PYTHON env variable. gyp ERR! stack at PythonFinder.failNoPython (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\configure.js:483:19) gyp ERR! stack at PythonFinder.<anonymous> (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\configure.js:508:16) gyp ERR! stack at C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\graceful-fs\polyfills.js:284:29 gyp ERR! stack at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:152:21) gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.16299 gyp ERR! command “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe” “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js” “configure” “–fallback-to-build” “–library=static_library” “–module=C:\Users\Chetan\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\firebase-tools\node_modules\grpc\src\node\extension_binary\grpc_node.node” “–module_name=grpc_node” “–module_path=C:\Users\Chetan\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\firebase-tools\node_modules\grpc\src\node\extension_binary” gyp ERR! cwd C:\Users\Chetan\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\firebase-tools\node_modules\grpc gyp ERR! node -v v8.9.4 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.6.2 gyp ERR! not ok node-pre-gyp ERR! build error node-pre-gyp ERR! stack Error: Failed to execute ‘C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --library=static_library --module=C:\Users\Chetan\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\firebase-tools\node_modules\grpc\src\node\extension_binary\grpc_node.node --module_name=grpc_node --module_path=C:\Users\Chetan\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\firebase-tools\node_modules\grpc\src\node\extension_binary’ (1) node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (C:\Users\Chetan\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\firebase-tools\node_modules\grpc\node_modules\node-pre-gyp\lib\util\compile.js:83:29) node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at emitTwo (events.js:126:13) node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:214:7) node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:925:16) node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:209:5) node-pre-gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.16299 node-pre-gyp ERR! command “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe” “C:\Users\Chetan\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\firebase-tools\node_modules\grpc\node_modules\node-pre-gyp\bin\node-pre-gyp” “install” “–fallback-to-build” “–library=static_library” node-pre-gyp ERR! cwd C:\Users\Chetan\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\firebase-tools\node_modules\grpc node-pre-gyp ERR! node -v v8.9.4 node-pre-gyp ERR! node-pre-gyp -v v0.6.36 node-pre-gyp ERR! not ok Failed to execute ‘C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --library=static_library --module=C:\Users\Chetan\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\firebase-tools\node_modules\grpc\src\node\extension_binary\grpc_node.node --module_name=grpc_node --module_path=C:\Users\Chetan\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\firebase-tools\node_modules\grpc\src\node\extension_binary’ (1) npm WARN rollback Rolling back concat-map@0.0.1 failed (this is probably harmless): EPERM: operation not permitted, scandir ‘C:\Users\Chetan\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\firebase-tools\node_modules\grpc\node_modules\node-pre-gyp\node_modules\rimraf\node_modules\glob\node_modules\minimatch\node_modules\brace-expansion\node_modules’ npm WARN rollback Rolling back concat-map@0.0.1 failed (this is probably harmless): EPERM: operation not permitted, scandir ‘C:\Users\Chetan\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\firebase-tools\node_modules\grpc\node_modules\node-pre-gyp\node_modules\tar-pack\node_modules\fstream-ignore\node_modules\minimatch\node_modules\brace-expansion\node_modules’ npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: grpc@1.4.1 (node_modules\firebase-tools\node_modules\grpc): npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: grpc@1.4.1 install: node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build --library=static_library npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Exit status 1

firebase-tools@3.17.3 added 7 packages and updated 2 packages in 111.968s

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Comments: 26 (3 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

Adds a terms of service prompt to ext-dev-register (#626) * Adds terms of service prompt before register an extension publisher profile * format dependencies * use marked and await/async — committed to firebase/firebase-tools by joehan 4 years ago

Most upvoted comments

Cleane installation Chace with:

npm cache clean --force

and install again firebase tools

npm install -g firebase-tools

jagungodak on Oct 9, 2018

Uninstall this one and install previous version (v3.17.2) See my answer on Stackoverflow

UPDATE

Today published version (v3.17.4) has the same problem, still getting errors on install therefore I’m still stuck with v3.17.2.

bogacg on Jan 26, 2018

Guys, i dont belive… work for me. take a look:

Kaspersky Anti-virus has an active invasive check into HTTPS connections that causes this kind of problem with npm. Tested with antivirus on and off and I can confirm that it is causing the problem.

After completely disabling Encrypted connections scanning all worked as intended.

https://github.com/grpc/grpc-node/issues/140

danilolopesabreu on Mar 21, 2018

Cleane installation Chace with:

npm cache clean --force

and install again firebase tools

npm install -g firebase-tools

Thank you so much! That fixed the error.

james-lubin on Nov 3, 2018

I solved this issue. i think firebase-tools module depend on specific npm version

npm uninstall -g firebase-tools
npm install -g npm
npm install -g firebase-tools

│ New major version of npm available! 6.14.8 → 7.20.1 │ │ Changelog: https://github.com/npm/cli/releases/tag/v7.20.1 │ │ Run npm install -g npm to update! │

hadxits on Jul 24, 2021

here is my case: $ npm --version 6.14.6

$ node --version v12.18.3

using this command 😒 npm install -g firebase-tools =>FAILED. using this command 😒 npm i -g firebase-tools => SUCCESS.

not sure what different between ‘install’ and ‘i’.

mnansyah on Aug 6, 2020

Until the version is bumped, I could get gRPC to compile by temporarily removing %USERPROFILE%\.node-gyp\<version>\include\node\openssl. Otherwise MSBuild.exe fails.

xelra on Feb 23, 2018

The problem here is that there are no pre-built binaries available for Node 9 and gRPC 1.4.1 and building gRPC fails on Windows. I’ve invested a lot of time trying to get gRPC to build, but still no luck.

There are gRPC binaries available for the latest version though, 1.9.1.

@mbleigh Can the version of the gRPC dependency be bumped to 1.9.1? That would solve this issue for all of us Windows users, because we wouldn’t have to build anymore.

EDIT: Well actually not “this” issue, because the op simply doesn’t have Python configured correctly, so he doesn’t even get to the point where the build fails.

xelra on Feb 22, 2018

UPDATE 2

windows-build-tools package got an update yesterday so I installed it with hope it solves the problems installing latest version of firebase-tools. It did not, same errors occur.

bogacg on Feb 1, 2018

That solved me the problem: exp 11.0.0 version for

npm i firebase-tools@11.0.0

zehrasarac on Jun 18, 2022

Please update to a version of grpc that has precompiled binaries for windows, compiling anything on windows is a pain, the only sane solution is to have it precompiled.

StigOlavsen on Mar 6, 2018

@exawatt I did, Python is working on my machine, it had nothing to do with build error for native packages it tries to build & fails.

bogacg on Feb 3, 2018