Npm failed to set time with error make not found

Question

When I try to set the time on the nodejs server, I get the following error:

time@0.8.4 install /var/www/track/node_modules/time node-gyp rebuild gyp ERR! build error gyp ERR! stack Error: not found: make gyp ERR! stack at F (/usr/lib/nodejs/npm/node_modules/which/which.js:43:28) gyp ERR! stack at E (/usr/lib/nodejs/npm/node_modules/which/which.js:46:29) gyp ERR! stack at /usr/lib/nodejs/npm/node_modules/which/which.js:57:16 gyp ERR! stack at Object.oncomplete (fs.js:297:15) gyp ERR! System Linux 3.2.0-31-virtual gyp ERR! command "node" "/usr/lib/nodejs/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild" gyp ERR! cwd /var/www/track/node_modules/time gyp ERR! node -v v0.8.15 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.7.1 gyp ERR! not ok npm ERR! time@0.8.4 install: `node-gyp rebuild` npm ERR! `sh "-c" "node-gyp rebuild"` failed with 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the time@0.8.4 install script. npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the time 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 their info via: npm ERR! npm owner ls time npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above. npm ERR! System Linux 3.2.0-31-virtual npm ERR! command "nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "time" npm ERR! cwd /var/www/track npm ERR! node -v v0.8.15 npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.66 npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in: npm ERR! /var/www/track/npm-debug.log npm ERR! not ok code 0 

Answer 1

What OS are you using?

If it is Ubuntu, you need to install the package necessary for the assembly as follows:

 $ sudo apt-get install build-essential 

Then try again to install the package.

Answer 2

I had the same issue using Docker, both on CENTOS 7 base images and RHEL 7 ... do the following:

 RUN yum install -y make gcc* 

Worked great for me!