Cannot find module 'nopt' error while performing NPM install

[rossgp]

I'm trying to install the latest version (1.0.60) and I'm getting the following error:

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

module.js:340
throw err;
^
Error: Cannot find module 'nopt'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at Object. (/tmp/nodejs-services/AService/node_modules/hummus/node_modules/node-pre-gyp/lib/node-pre-gyp.js:14:12)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)

I tried installing earlier versions and 1.0.59 and 1.0.58 give me the same error but 1.0.57 works OK for me.
The issue looks to be that node-pre-gyp is added as a bundled dependency but the published package is missing its node_modules.
version 1.0.57 does come with these bundled:

ls -l ~/.npm/hummus/1.0.57/package/node_modules/node-pre-gyp/node_modules/
total 36
drwxr-xr-x 6 node node 4096 Aug 29 11:04 mkdirp
drwxr-xr-x 7 node node 4096 Aug 29 11:04 nopt
drwxr-xr-x 4 node node 4096 Aug 29 11:04 npmlog
drwxr-xr-x 5 node node 4096 Aug 29 11:04 rc
drwxr-xr-x 4 node node 4096 Aug 29 11:04 request
drwxr-xr-x 3 node node 4096 Aug 29 11:04 rimraf
drwxr-xr-x 4 node node 4096 Aug 29 11:04 semver
drwxr-xr-x 6 node node 4096 Aug 29 11:04 tar
drwxr-xr-x 4 node node 4096 Aug 29 11:04 tar-pack

I think an npm install on the node_pre_gyp package needs to be done before doing an npm publish.

Or am I missing some install step I should be doing?

Thanks,
Ross

[galkahana]

Maybe. Lets est this. Do you mind trying npm instal node-pre-gyp and then npm instal hummus?

[rossgp]

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried that but it didn't work. As node_pre_gyp is already bundled require won't try to resolve this up the hierarchy - it's the dependencies it will be looking for - mkdirp, nopt e.t.c.
So I tried npm install on all these separately and now the npm install hummus works.

Is it possible for the next publish to include the dependant modules?

[galkahana]

look, the package includes node_pre_gyp as a dependency, and it in turn should install the rest. if it doesn't work, i need maybe a new node_pre_gyp, but installing its current dependencies is a bad idea.

Gal.

[galkahana]

maybe you have global install of node_pre_gyp? if i'm trying to npm install hummus i can see in node_modules under hummus nopt and the rest. is that not ok?

Gal.

[rossgp]

Sorry - not suggesting to install the dependencies explicitly but I believe when using a bundled dependency you need to run npm install on it before publishing.

I see this project had a similar issue but got around it by changing from using a bundled Dependency to setting it up as a preinstall instead.
https://github.com/mapbox/node-sqlite3/issues/655

Do you need the specify this as a bundled dependency as its already under dependencies?

[rossgp]

Sorry just say you previous comment come in - I'll check that out