Error installing [email protected]

Question

I am working through the tutorial for zeppelin-os found here: https://docs.zeppelinos.org/docs/linking.html

and have an error when running zos create

Could not find file zos-lib/contracts/Initializable.sol in the project (imported from contracts/TokenExchange.sol)

I thought it would be an error with the install of [email protected] so tried to install it again, and received the following errors

ryan@LAPTOP-SBSEC33S:~/token-exchange$ sudo npm install [email protected] npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: This package is deprecated. Use Array.isArray.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Use mz or fs-extra^3.0 with Promise Support
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: ⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ tar.gz module has been deprecated and your application is vulnerable. Please use tar module instead: https://npmjs.com/tar

[email protected] preinstall /home/ryan/token-exchange/node_modules/scrypt
node node-scrypt-preinstall.js > [email protected] install /home/ryan/token-exchange/node_modules/scrypt> node-gyp rebuild
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/home/ryan/token-exchange/node_modules/scrypt/build'
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.4.0-17763-Microsoft
gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild" gyp ERR! cwd /home/ryan/token-exchange/node_modules/scrypt
gyp ERR! node -v v10.16.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok
npm WARN [email protected] No description
npm WARN [email protected] No repository field.
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] install: node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install 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! /home/ryan/.npm/_logs/2019-06-29T04_11_35_411Z-debug.log

It is not clear to me how to fix it in order to progress further in the tutorial

Answer 1

It appears that you are having issues with node/npm rather than anything specific to ZeppelinOS.

You could delete the token-exchange directory and start the tutorial again.

I am not sure why you need to use sudo.

If you are not already, you could reinstall npm with a node version manager. https://docs.npmjs.com/resolving-eacces-permissions-errors-when-installing-packages-globally

I use nvm successfully on Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Please note if changing node versions, there is an issue using node 12 (https://forum.zeppelin.solutions/t/node-12-issue-with-truffle/808) so you need to use either node 10 or 11.

For questions regards ZeppelinOS and smart contract development you can ask in the community forum: https://forum.zeppelin.solutions/