gatsby: Something went wrong installing the "sharp" module

Well after various attempts to resolve I finally found a solution.

Here is how I was able to get it to work (Using a MAC):

1. Completely uninstall Node and NPM by following the steps in this post.
2. Install Node again using nvm - Here is how.
3. On the existing project, delete node_modules and package-lock.json file. Run npm install.
4. On new project works fine.

The aforementioned code did the trick for me.

npm rebuild --verbose sharp

Are you able to share your project so we can try to reproduce? Can you try running npm ls sharp? Also output of npm rebuild --verbose sharp could be helpful.

For my case:

Environment:

macOS M1 (AMD arch) node v15.5.0 Homebrew 3.0.1 npm 7.3.0

fix that worked for me:

1--------------------

brew install vips

Ref: https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/install#apple-m1 2------------------ After installing vips, Delete both yarn.lock/package-lock.json and node_modules

That might sound funny but today I installed web3 package and for some reason sharp started throwing errors again, I went really deep to fix the issue and tried almost all options that found ( install shaps globally,openxr…etc) and found 1 weird answer is to uninstall vips [here]

brew uninstall vips

(https://www.gitmemory.com/issue/lovell/sharp/2729/851516872) and it worked, it looks that sharp team are building the package without using homebrew version 0.28.0 here (its a long thread so try to uninstall vips as first option). Actually as per my understanding: uninstall vips and resolve sharp with 0.28.0 version will work fine.

"resolutions": {
    "sharp": "0.28.0"
  },

For me, the problem is about the node’s version. I use nvm and tested with three versions:

14.14.0 12.19.0 10.22.1

Only 10.22.1 works for me. I recommend using the nvm (Node Version Manager) to deal with this.

I have this problem on Windows. I use yarn for dependency management, but after installing all deps and running yarn build, I get an error:

yarn run v1.22.5
$ cross-env NODE_ENV=production gatsby build
warn Warning: there are unknown plugin options for "gatsby-plugin-sitemap": sitemapSize
Please open an issue at ghub.io/gatsby-plugin-sitemap if you believe this option is valid.

 ERROR 

Error in "C:\New Git Repos\website\node_modules\gatsby-plugin-manifest\gatsby-node.js":
Something went wrong installing the "sharp" module

Cannot find module '../build/Release/sharp.node'
Require stack:
- C:\New Git Repos\website\node_modules\sharp\lib\constructor.js
- C:\New Git Repos\website\node_modules\sharp\lib\index.js
- C:\New Git Repos\website\node_modules\gatsby-plugin-manifest\safe-sharp.js
- C:\New Git Repos\website\node_modules\gatsby-plugin-manifest\gatsby-node.js
- C:\New Git Repos\website\node_modules\gatsby\dist\bootstrap\resolve-module-exports.js
- C:\New Git Repos\website\node_modules\gatsby\dist\bootstrap\load-plugins\validate.js
- C:\New Git Repos\website\node_modules\gatsby\dist\bootstrap\load-plugins\load.js
- C:\New Git Repos\website\node_modules\gatsby\dist\bootstrap\load-plugins\index.js
- C:\New Git Repos\website\node_modules\gatsby\dist\bootstrap\load-config-and-plugins.js
- C:\New Git Repos\website\node_modules\gatsby\dist\services\initialize.js
- C:\New Git Repos\website\node_modules\gatsby\dist\services\index.js
- C:\New Git Repos\website\node_modules\gatsby\dist\bootstrap\index.js
- C:\New Git Repos\website\node_modules\gatsby\dist\commands\build.js
- C:\New Git Repos\website\node_modules\gatsby-cli\lib\create-cli.js
- C:\New Git Repos\website\node_modules\gatsby-cli\lib\index.js
- C:\New Git Repos\website\node_modules\gatsby\dist\bin\gatsby.js
- C:\New Git Repos\website\node_modules\gatsby\cli.js

- Remove the "node_modules/sharp" directory then run
  "npm install --ignore-scripts=false --verbose sharp" and look for errors
- Consult the installation documentation at https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/install
- Search for this error at https://github.com/lovell/sharp/issues




  Error: Something went wrong installing the "sharp" module
  Cannot find module '../build/Release/sharp.node'

Simply deleting node_modules and reinstalling all the deps again fixed it.

For me, @uranium93 solutions (step 1 only) worked for me:

brew install vips

Hi! If anyone is still having this issue: I tracked it down to forgetting to exclude my node_modules to upload on the gitignore. Therefore when I cloned to a new computer with a different OS it didn’t find the same packages cause they’re not the same for different OS. Simple solution? To me it was just erasing the node_modules directory and reinstalling them with a npm install.

I second the brew install vips fix for mac

This should work for folks on M1 Mac

Install Rossette2 if you havent already:

/usr/sbin/softwareupdate --install-rosetta --agree-to-license

Remove lock file and node_modules

rm -rf node_modules yarn.lock

Reinstall using arch -x86_64

arch -x86_64 yarn install

Run your dev environment using arch -x86_64

arch -x86_64 yarn dev

Setup alias so you don’t have to specify the arch everytime:

alias yarn="arch -x86_64 yarn"

And then simply yarn dev

Fifty billion years later:

# .yarnrc.yml
yarnPath: .yarn/releases/yarn-3.3.1.cjs

...
    "sharp": "0.31.3",

...

The aforementioned code did the trick for me.

npm rebuild --verbose sharp

yarn rebuild sharp

🎉

For me (MacBook Pro M1) I had to downgrade to Node v14 for it to work. It was not working using Node v16. I’m using Sharp 0.31.3

With nvm:

nvm use 14 rm -rf node_modules npm i

@Mtea994 My mistake. I chimed in before I was adequately caffeinated. I was running into a very similar error but not using Gatsby. I was so excited that I jumped to share. Sorry!

I had a similar issue; for anyone running into this, the magic nodejs version for me was 12.15.0. Godspeed!

gatsby version v^5 requires node v^18 to work how did you make it work ?

I ran into this problem after updating plugins out of step with each other, and there were multiple sharp installs in my package. I ran yarn why sharp and made sure to upgrade all the results to their latest and the problem went away.