npm install pngquant fails

[anthonyaam]

I'm getting the below error when running npm install pngquant. Other users started getting this error today and have posted on stack overflow. Thank you for the help.

pngquant failed to build, make sure that libpng is installed

[papandreou]

I can't reproduce this (but I do have pngquant installed).

This is a problem with https://github.com/imagemin/pngquant-bin, which is a dependency of this package (pngquant), but it seems like they have just released a new version that changes some build-related things.

I updated to pngquant-bin@^4.0.0 now and released pngquant@2.0.0, could you try installing that instead?

[mdaliyan]

root@latitude a$ sudo npm install pngquant
npm WARN deprecated gulp-util@3.0.8: gulp-util is deprecated - replace it, following the guidelines at https://medium.com/gulpjs/gulp-util-ca3b1f9f9ac5

> pngquant-bin@3.1.1 postinstall /root/a/node_modules/pngquant-bin
> node lib/install.js

  ⚠ The `/root/a/node_modules/pngquant-bin/vendor/pngquant` binary doesn't seem to work correctly
  ⚠ pngquant pre-build test failed
  ℹ compiling from source
  ✔ pngquant built successfully
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
npm WARN a@1.0.0 No description
npm WARN a@1.0.0 No repository field.

+ pngquant@1.3.0
added 305 packages from 128 contributors in 37.183s

root@latitude a$ sudo npm install pngquant-bin
npm WARN deprecated gulp-util@3.0.8: gulp-util is deprecated - replace it, following the guidelines at https://medium.com/gulpjs/gulp-util-ca3b1f9f9ac5

> pngquant-bin@3.1.1 postinstall /root/a/node_modules/pngquant/node_modules/pngquant-bin
> node lib/install.js

  ⚠ The `/root/a/node_modules/pngquant/node_modules/pngquant-bin/vendor/pngquant` binary doesn't seem to work correctly
  ⚠ pngquant pre-build test failed
  ℹ compiling from source
  ✔ pngquant built successfully

> pngquant-bin@4.0.0 postinstall /root/a/node_modules/pngquant-bin
> node lib/install.js

  ⚠ The `/root/a/node_modules/pngquant-bin/vendor/pngquant` binary doesn't seem to work correctly
  ⚠ pngquant pre-build test failed
  ℹ compiling from source
  ✔ pngquant pre-build test passed successfully
  ✖ RequestError: pngquant failed to build, make sure that libpng-dev is installed
    at ClientRequest.req.once.err (/root/a/node_modules/got/index.js:111:21)
    at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:272:13)
    at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:180:13)
    at Socket.socketErrorListener (_http_client.js:394:9)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:180:13)
    at emitErrorNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:64:8)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:114:19)
npm WARN a@1.0.0 No description
npm WARN a@1.0.0 No repository field.

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! pngquant-bin@4.0.0 postinstall: `node lib/install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the pngquant-bin@4.0.0 postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2018-03-16T08_18_52_426Z-debug.log

says make sure that libpng-dev is installed but the package is installed already

$ apt-get install libpng-dev 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
libpng-dev is already the newest version (1.6.34-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 103 not upgraded.

[papandreou]

@mdaliyan, that sure looks odd. Could you try bringing it up with the pngquant-bin folks?

[mdaliyan]

I'm going to do that already. but the odd thing is i cannot install pngquant separately too.

sorry for the previous post. i ran them before npm init. i have updated it. see: imagemin/pngquant-bin#64 (comment)

[lejoss]

I'm getting the same error

I'm using docker-alpine (3.4)
node version 6.7.0
npm version 3.10.3

[anthonyaam]

@papandreou @mdaliyan I believe this is the related pngquant-bin issue.

[mdaliyan]

My Ubuntu install was so fresh. I tried to compile nodejs instead of using the repo version. after that pngquant-bin installed correctly. It seems that the make package was not installed before I try to compile nodejs (see: imagemin/pngquant-bin#78)

[Suven]

Just for others running into that issue:

The error-message might suggest otherwise, but also make sure you installed build-essentials. Obviously it can not build the binary from source without a compiler.

So for ubuntu/debian, try: sudo apt-get install build-essential libpng-dev

[davidsneal]

Thanks @Suven !! I tried dozens of other suggestions, this sorted it for me!

[t-iki]

It works!! Thanks a lot 😁 @Suven

[jmpache]

Thanks @Suven !

[kishan93]

Just for others running into that issue:

The error-message might suggest otherwise, but also make sure you installed build-essentials. Obviously it can not build the binary from source without a compiler.

So for ubuntu/debian, try: sudo apt-get install build-essential libpng-dev

thank you so much, this solved the issue for me.

[ryanbagwell]

This worked for me on CentOS 7:

yum install libpng12-devel

(note libpng12-devel instead of libpng-devel)

From imagemin/pngquant-bin#78

[Tochukz]

Just for others running into that issue:

The error-message might suggest otherwise, but also make sure you installed build-essentials. Obviously it can not build the binary from source without a compiler.

So for ubuntu/debian, try: sudo apt-get install build-essential libpng-dev

Worked for me. Thanks

[praWINK]

Hi Guys,
I am also facing the same issue in my windows 8.1, can you please anyone give some ideas for windows???

[papandreou]

I'll close this as it was actually related to the pngquant-bin package.

[pauloantonelli]

Just for others running into that issue:

The error-message might suggest otherwise, but also make sure you installed build-essentials. Obviously it can not build the binary from source without a compiler.

So for ubuntu/debian, try: sudo apt-get install build-essential libpng-dev

thanks solved my problem!

[yassh-pandey]

Thanks a lot @Suven. This issue was making me go crazy. lol

[Junior-Shyko]

Apenas para outros que estão enfrentando esse problema:

A mensagem de erro pode sugerir o contrário, mas também verifique se você instalou o build-essentials. Obviamente ele não pode construir o binário a partir da fonte sem um compilador.

Então, para ubuntu/debian, tente:sudo apt-get install build-essential libpng-dev

Muito Obrigado pela dica.

[cunguyendev]

Confirm it worked on Linux 22, thanks @Suven