Installation Problems with firebase-admin (on windows 10 and Linux plataform)

[Armando Noval]

I am trying to work with firebase cloudfunctions, my problem is when I prepare the workspace, for which I follow the steps mentioned in the Firebase webpage:

- On node.js version 6.14.0 I tried to actualize both the firebase-tools@latest and firebase-admin@latest. On doing this, I get an error, which I transcribe. I would like to comment on the fact that I made it not only on Linux environment with ubuntu but on windows 10 as well. I also changed to latest versions of node.js and firebase-admin but the same error was repeated.  Finally I tried to install the latest  version of node-pre-gyp but the same error appears.

This is my log file when I tried to install both firebase-admin and firebase-tools: The file is attached to this mail.

I appreciate if someone can help me

npm -g install firebase-tools@latest firebase-admin@latest 
/home/armando/.nvm/versions/node/v6.14.0/bin/firebase -> /home/armando/.nvm/versions/node/v6.14.0/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/bin/firebase

> grpc@1.12.4 install /home/armando/.nvm/versions/node/v6.14.0/lib/node_modules/firebase-admin/node_modules/grpc
> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build --library=static_library

node-pre-gyp ERR! Completion callback never invoked! 
node-pre-gyp ERR! System Linux 4.15.0-23-generic
node-pre-gyp ERR! command "/home/armando/.nvm/versions/node/v6.14.0/bin/node" "/home/armando/.nvm/versions/node/v6.14.0/lib/node_modules/firebase-admin/node_modules/grpc/node_modules/.bin/node-pre-gyp" "install" "--fallback-to-build" "--library=static_library"
node-pre-gyp ERR! cwd /home/armando/.nvm/versions/node/v6.14.0/lib/node_modules/firebase-admin/node_modules/grpc
node-pre-gyp ERR! node -v v6.14.0
node-pre-gyp ERR! node-pre-gyp -v v0.10.0
node-pre-gyp ERR! This is a bug in `node-pre-gyp`.
node-pre-gyp ERR! Try to update node-pre-gyp and file an issue if it does not help:
node-pre-gyp ERR!     <https://github.com/mapbox/node-pre-gyp/issues>
/home/armando/.nvm/versions/node/v6.14.0/lib
└── firebase-tools@3.19.0 

npm ERR! Linux 4.15.0-23-generic
npm ERR! argv "/home/armando/.nvm/versions/node/v6.14.0/bin/node" "/home/armando/.nvm/versions/node/v6.14.0/bin/npm" "-g" "install" "firebase-tools@latest" "firebase-admin@latest"
npm ERR! node v6.14.0
npm ERR! npm  v3.10.10
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! grpc@1.12.4 install: `node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build --library=static_library`
npm ERR! Exit status 6
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the grpc@1.12.4 install script 'node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build --library=static_library'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the grpc package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build --library=static_library
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR!     npm bugs grpc
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls grpc
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

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

[Kato Richardson]

Armando, any chance you could upgrade to a more recent version of node? A tool like nvm might be helpful here.

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[Hiranya Jayathilaka]

According to the grpc team this is a known issue in node-pre-gyp: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/15507

The most popular workaround for Windows seems to be disabling the antivirus.

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[Armando Noval]

Hi Kato. Thanks for you reply. Following your advice I tried with the tool nvm and I installed the node.js 8.11.3 version and 10.5.0, both latest versions o node. Though, the problem persists.

Any suggestion about a particular version number that I could be using to solve the issue ? 

[Armando Noval]

Thanks Hiranya for your reply. 

On Windows I have already disabled tha antivirus and the problem persists

On Linux I have no antivirus running and the same problem raises.

Any suggestion will be appreciated.

[Hiranya Jayathilaka]

This might be a network/proxy issue. Can you try this on a different network?

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