Unable to install nativescript (CLI)

[ngdangtu-vn]

I tried to install nativescript but it keep failing. Could it be because nativescript uses depercated packages?

# 1st attempt
volta install nativescript

# 2nd attempt
volta run --node 20 npm i -g nativescript

Here is the output from the second attempt.

npm WARN deprecated phin@2.9.3: Package no longer supported. Contact Support at https://www.npmjs.com/support for more info.
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path ~/.local/bin-ins/volta/tmp/image/packages/.tmpxz6NA4/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/fsevents
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
npm ERR! gyp info using node-gyp@10.1.0
npm ERR! gyp info using node@20.12.2 | linux | x64
npm ERR! gyp info find Python using Python version 3.10.12 found at "/usr/bin/python3"
npm ERR! gyp info spawn /usr/bin/python3
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args [
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '~/.local/bin-ins/volta/tmp/image/packages/.tmpxz6NA4/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/gyp_main.py',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args 'binding.gyp',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-f',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args 'make',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-I',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '~/.local/bin-ins/volta/tmp/image/packages/.tmpxz6NA4/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/fsevents/build/config.gypi',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-I',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '~/.local/bin-ins/volta/tmp/image/packages/.tmpxz6NA4/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/node-gyp/addon.gypi',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-I',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '~/.cache/node-gyp/20.12.2/include/node/common.gypi',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-Dlibrary=shared_library',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-Dvisibility=default',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-Dnode_root_dir=~/.cache/node-gyp/20.12.2',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-Dnode_gyp_dir=~/.local/bin-ins/volta/tmp/image/packages/.tmpxz6NA4/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/node-gyp',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-Dnode_lib_file=~/.cache/node-gyp/20.12.2/<(target_arch)/node.lib',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-Dmodule_root_dir=~/.local/bin-ins/volta/tmp/image/packages/.tmpxz6NA4/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/fsevents',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-Dnode_engine=v8',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '--depth=.',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '--no-parallel',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '--generator-output',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args 'build',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-Goutput_dir=.'
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ]
npm ERR! gyp: binding.gyp not found (cwd: ~/.local/bin-ins/volta/tmp/image/packages/.tmpxz6NA4/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/fsevents) while trying to load binding.gyp
npm ERR! gyp ERR! configure error 
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (~/.local/bin-ins/volta/tmp/image/packages/.tmpxz6NA4/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:297:18)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:518:28)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:294:12)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! System Linux 6.5.0-10031-tuxedo
npm ERR! gyp ERR! command "~/.local/bin-ins/volta/tools/image/node/20.12.2/bin/node" "~/.local/bin-ins/volta/tmp/image/packages/.tmpxz6NA4/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/.bin/node-gyp" "rebuild"
npm ERR! gyp ERR! cwd ~/.local/bin-ins/volta/tmp/image/packages/.tmpxz6NA4/lib/node_modules/nativescript/node_modules/fsevents
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node -v v20.12.2
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v10.1.0
npm ERR! gyp ERR! not ok

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: ~/.npm/_logs/2024-04-30T20_27_22_651Z-debug-0.log

My spec:

• linux: 6.5.0-10031-tuxedo #35 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Mar 28 11:54:07 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
• volta: 1.1.1

Here is my attachment log:

2024-04-30T20_27_22_651Z-debug-0.log

[chriskrycho]

If you try installing that directly without Volta, does it work normally?

[ngdangtu-vn]

Yeah, in the end I have to install pnpm separately (https://pnpm.io/installation) and install nativescript. It worked as expected.