Can't npm install this (node-pre-gyp errors) about mapbox-tile-copy

[liebrand]

In the end I finally got this working by:
1- downgrading my node to 0.12.4
2- brew install zeromq
3- brew install pkgconfig
4- brew install libpng
5- npm install -g mapbox-tile-copy
6- upgrading my node back to v5.1.0

[martgnz]

I am getting similar errors as well on OS X. Are there any plans to solve this?

[rclark]

These failures likely stem from dependency on https://github.com/mapnik/node-mapnik. Certain versions of node-mapnik are only prebuilt for certain versions of node.js. When node-pre-gyp can't find an acceptable combination of the node-mapnik version you requested and the version of node.js you're running, it falls back to trying to build the c++ addons "from scratch". In these cases, you'll need several other tools installed.

Looking over the .travis.yml in node-mapnik, I see that there should be builds on v0.10 v4 and v5. Further investigation of the travis logs, looks like pre-built binaries for [email protected] on OSX were built on

• 5.10.1
• 4.4.3
• 0.10.44

[martgnz]

Thanks @rclark, I understand now.

I'll switch my node version to 5.10.1 with nvm and try the installation again.

I'll keep you updated.

[paddoum]

Switch to 5.10.1 solved it for us.