node-sha3: Failed at the sha3@1.2.0 install script 'node-gyp rebuild'.

I was trying to install Truffle and I got the following error:

node-sass@3.8.0 postinstall /usr/lib/node_modules/truffle/node_modules/truffle-default-builder/node_modules/node-sass node scripts/build.js

“/usr/lib/node_modules/truffle/node_modules/truffle-default-builder/node_modules/node-sass/vendor/linux-x64-46/binding.node” exists. testing binary. Binary is fine; exiting. npm ERR! Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 npm ERR! argv “/usr/bin/nodejs” “/usr/bin/npm” “install” “-g” “truffle” npm ERR! node v4.5.0 npm ERR! npm v2.15.9 npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! sha3@1.2.0 install: node-gyp rebuild npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the sha3@1.2.0 install script ‘node-gyp rebuild’. npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the sha3 package, npm ERR! not with npm itself. npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system: npm ERR! node-gyp rebuild npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with: npm ERR! npm bugs sha3 npm ERR! Or if that isn’t available, you can get their info via: npm ERR! npm ERR! npm owner ls sha3 npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request: npm ERR! /home/user/Projects/WeatherContractBlock/npm-debug.log

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Created 8 years ago
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Commits related to this issue

Downgrade: `node` back to `9.4.0` `sha3` currently has troubles installing under node 9.5.0 See: https://github.com/phusion/node-sha3/issues/27 Please monitor and fix this. — committed to JoinColony/colonyDapp by rdig 6 years ago

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Resolved : sudo apt-get install build-essential

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diego-G on Dec 12, 2016

I had the same issue. The sha3 package was included in another dependency I have added to my package.json. I cannot really explain why but the error disappeared after running

npm i sha3 --save
npm i

Hope that helps

+29

leoZeitler1 on Jun 7, 2018

sudo apt-get install libgmp-dev solved the issue for me

sduprey on May 6, 2017

For Red Hat distributions (for example, CentOS) it will be sudo yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'.

jehy on Jan 12, 2017

I had the same issue with sha3. So to diagnose it try running npm install sha3

The error messages were more specific. Turns out I had to install Python 2.7.x (and add to path before Python v3 location)

Hope this can help someone.

I’m running Windows10, Node v7.2.0 and Npm v3.10.9

mattcrooks on Nov 29, 2016

I am having the same issue with keccak

AbdulMutaal on Feb 24, 2019

Resolved : sudo apt-get install build-essential

This saves my day. Thank you.

violettomsk on Oct 17, 2018

gyp ERR! configure error gyp ERR! stack Error: Can’t find Python executable “f:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\python.EXE”, you can set the PYTHON env variable. gyp ERR! stack at PythonFinder.failNoPython (D:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\configure.js:483:19) gyp ERR! stack at PythonFinder.<anonymous> (D:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\configure.js:508:16) gyp ERR! stack at D:\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 10.0.15063 gyp ERR! command “D:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe” “D:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js” “rebuild” gyp ERR! cwd D:\Projects\browser-solidity\node_modules\sha3 gyp ERR! node -v v8.2.1 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.6.2 gyp ERR! not ok

kenken64 on Jul 26, 2017

Downgrading from Node 12 to Node 10 fixed this for me 👍

villesundell on Sep 6, 2020

For people still in pain (like I was). I resolved the build error by making sure the g++ command was resolvable. Read: https://github.com/0mkara/etheratom/issues/88#issuecomment-384570317

therealburningman on Apr 26, 2018

@luclu Did you ever resolve your issue? unterminated #ifndef? I’m currently seeing this every ~5 builds (same as you), and have not yet determined the cause…

CrabDude on Sep 28, 2017

for me it failed on windows because:

npm install sha3
...
\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin\\..\..\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild )  else (node "" rebuild )
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: Python executable "E:\Python\python.EXE" is v3.6.1, which is not supported by gyp.
gyp ERR! stack You can pass the --python switch to point to Python >= v2.5.0 & < 3.0.0.
gyp ERR! stack     at failPythonVersion (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\configure.js

So I uninstalled mine and installed 2.7 https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7/ Then it worked.

yaananth on Jul 25, 2017

I’m also experiencing this issue, on both travis-ci and heroku.

tinybike on Mar 1, 2017