laravel-mix: Cannot deploy my app using laravel-mix since 3 days due to exiting code on pngquant lib

• Laravel Mix Version: 2.1.1
• Node Version (node -v): 9.6.1
• NPM Version (npm -v): 5.6.0
• OS: Debian

Since 3 days, it’s impossible for me to use Laravel Mix to deploy my application. The problem is that Laravel Mix requires pngquant library and this library has been updated 3 days ago by adding a line to exit the process when an error occurs! It means that all next npm packages cannot be installed. I don’t know if laravel-mix can modify something but the problem is very boring.

Linked to open issue: https://github.com/imagemin/pngquant-bin/issues/78

Here is the stack trace that occurs:

pngquant-bin@4.0.0 postinstall /var/www/palm/20180315202846/node_modules/pngquant-bin

node lib/install.js

⚠ The /var/www/pp/20180315202846/node_modules/pngquant-bin/vendor/pngquant binary doesn't seem to work correctly
⚠ pngquant pre-build test failed
ℹ compiling from source
✔ pngquant pre-build test passed successfully
✖ RequestError: pngquant failed to build, make sure that libpng-dev is installed
at ClientRequest.req.once.err (/var/www/pp/20180315202846/node_modules/pngquant-bin/node_modules/got/index.js:111:21)
at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:272:13)
at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:180:13)
at ClientRequest.onConnect (/var/www/pp/20180315202846/node_modules/pngquant-bin/node_modules/tunnel-agent/index.js:168:23)
at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:272:13)
at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:180:13)
at Socket.socketOnData (_http_client.js:476:11)
at Socket.emit (events.js:180:13)
at addChunk (_stream_readable.js:269:12)
at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:256:11)
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@1.1.3 (node_modules/fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.1.3: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! pngquant-bin@4.0.0 postinstall: node lib/install.js
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the pngquant-bin@4.0.0 postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
^C
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /root/.npm/_logs/2018-03-15T20_19_09_479Z-debug.log