Error when trying to install serialport node

[leonardo serri]

Dear all,

apologies if another similar thread is open. As indicate in the title I receive errors when I try to install the serial port node. I have installed the node-red on a raspberry pi - Jessie OS.  The node-red service starts correctly, but the serialport node is not loaded ( I have also successfully added new nodes such as Wunderground and Twilio).

Following you can see the errors that I receive when the sudo nam install serialport:

pi@raspberrypi ~/node-red/node-red-nodes $ sudo npm install serialport

\

> seria...@2.0.6 install /home/pi/node-red/node-red-nodes/node_modules/serialport

> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build

gyp WARN EACCES user "root" does not have permission to access the dev dir "/root/.node-gyp/0.12.6"

gyp WARN EACCES attempting to reinstall using temporary dev dir "/home/pi/node-red/node-red-nodes/node_modules/serialport/.node-gyp"

gyp WARN install got an error, rolling back install

gyp WARN install got an error, rolling back install

gyp ERR! configure error 

gyp ERR! stack Error: unexpected eof

gyp ERR! stack     at decorate (/home/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/abstract.js:67:36)

gyp ERR! stack     at Extract.Abstract.error (/home/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/abstract.js:61:12)

gyp ERR! stack     at Extract._streamEnd (/home/node_modules/npm/node_modules/tar/lib/extract.js:91:35)

gyp ERR! stack     at BlockStream.<anonymous> (/home/node_modules/npm/node_modules/tar/lib/parse.js:51:8)

gyp ERR! stack     at BlockStream.emit (events.js:104:17)

gyp ERR! stack     at BlockStream._emitChunk (/home/node_modules/npm/node_modules/tar/node_modules/block-stream/block-stream.js:203:10)

gyp ERR! stack     at BlockStream.flush (/home/node_modules/npm/node_modules/tar/node_modules/block-stream/block-stream.js:70:8)

gyp ERR! stack     at BlockStream.end (/home/node_modules/npm/node_modules/tar/node_modules/block-stream/block-stream.js:66:8)

gyp ERR! stack     at Extract.Parse.end (/home/node_modules/npm/node_modules/tar/lib/parse.js:86:23)

gyp ERR! stack     at Gunzip.onend (_stream_readable.js:505:10)

gyp ERR! System Linux 4.1.14+

gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/home/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "configure" "--fallback-to-build" "--module=/home/pi/node-red/node-red-nodes/node_modules/serialport/build/Release/node-v14-linux-arm/serialport.node" "--module_name=serialport" "--module_path=/home/pi/node-red/node-red-nodes/node_modules/serialport/build/Release/node-v14-linux-arm"

gyp ERR! cwd /home/pi/node-red/node-red-nodes/node_modules/serialport

gyp ERR! node -v v0.12.6

gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.2.1

gyp ERR! not ok 

node-pre-gyp ERR! build error 

node-pre-gyp ERR! stack Error: Failed to execute '/usr/local/bin/node /home/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --module=/home/pi/node-red/node-red-nodes/node_modules/serialport/build/Release/node-v14-linux-arm/serialport.node --module_name=serialport --module_path=/home/pi/node-red/node-red-nodes/node_modules/serialport/build/Release/node-v14-linux-arm' (1)

node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/pi/node-red/node-red-nodes/node_modules/serialport/node_modules/node-pre-gyp/lib/util/compile.js:83:29)

node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:110:17)

node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at maybeClose (child_process.js:1015:16)

node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:1087:5)

node-pre-gyp ERR! System Linux 4.1.14+

node-pre-gyp ERR! command "node" "/home/pi/node-red/node-red-nodes/node_modules/serialport/node_modules/.bin/node-pre-gyp" "install" "--fallback-to-build"

node-pre-gyp ERR! cwd /home/pi/node-red/node-red-nodes/node_modules/serialport

node-pre-gyp ERR! node -v v0.12.6

node-pre-gyp ERR! node-pre-gyp -v v0.6.18

node-pre-gyp ERR! not ok 

Failed to execute '/usr/local/bin/node /home/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --module=/home/pi/node-red/node-red-nodes/node_modules/serialport/build/Release/node-v14-linux-arm/serialport.node --module_name=serialport --module_path=/home/pi/node-red/node-red-nodes/node_modules/serialport/build/Release/node-v14-linux-arm' (1)

npm ERR! Linux 4.1.14+

npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "serialport"

npm ERR! node v0.12.6

npm ERR! npm  v2.11.2

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! seria...@2.0.6 install: `node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build`

npm ERR! Exit status 1

npm ERR! 

npm ERR! Failed at the seria...@2.0.6 install script 'node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build'.

npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the serialport 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

npm ERR! You can get their info via:

npm ERR!     npm owner ls serialport

npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:

npm ERR!     /home/pi/node-red/node-red-nodes/npm-debug.log

Any help to solve this issue is accepted.

Thank You so much.

Leonardo

[Dave C-J]

Hi,

serialport should have installed automatically with node-red... but...
try sudo npm i --unsafe-perm node-red-node-serialport
When trying to build it drop permissions back to "nobody" and it then can't write files it needs to.