web3.js not installing

[aparnathi567]

C:>e:

E:>mkdir test

E:>cd test

E:\test>npm init
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It only covers the most common items, and tries to guess sensible defaults.

See npm help json for definitive documentation on these fields
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package name: (test)
version: (1.0.0)
description:
entry point: (index.js)
test command:
git repository:
keywords:
author:
license: (ISC)
About to write to E:\test\package.json:

{
"name": "test",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"main": "index.js",
"scripts": {
"test": "echo "Error: no test specified" && exit 1"
},
"author": "",
"license": "ISC"
}

Is this OK? (yes)

E:\test>npm install web3
****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 E:\test\node_modules\scrypt
node node-scrypt-preinstall.js

[email protected] install E:\test\node_modules\scrypt
node-gyp rebuild

E:\test\node_modules\scrypt>if not defined npm_config_node_gyp (node "C:\Users\kaushik\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\node-gyp-bin\....\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild ) else (node "C:\Users\kaushik\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild )
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: Command failed: C:\Users\kaushik\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\python.EXE -c import sys; print "%s.%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:3];
gyp ERR! stack File "", line 1
gyp ERR! stack import sys; print "%s.%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:3];
gyp ERR! stack ^
gyp ERR! stack SyntaxError: invalid syntax
gyp ERR! stack
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:276:12)
gyp ERR! stack at emitTwo (events.js:126:13)
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:214:7)
gyp ERR! stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:915:16)
gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:209:5)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.17134
gyp ERR! command "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe" "C:\Users\kaushik\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd E:\test\node_modules\scrypt
gyp ERR! node -v v8.12.0
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! C:\Users\kaushik\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2018-11-03T07_03_58_094Z-debug.log**

E:\test>**

[mqklin]

You have a problem with node-gyp, not with web3

[aparnathi567]

You have a problem with node-gyp, not with web3

then, how to solve it

[mqklin]

Google it, depends on your errors
https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp#installation try this for example

[thundo]

You should probably install Python 2.7, not 3.x.

[Huanzhang89]

@thundo makes a good point, node-gyp does not work with python v3.x as stated by their github page https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp

[EddieOne]

Also, I think just update Node

[paulmelero]

have you seen #1783 (comment) ? Kind regards!

[nivida]

Closed because of the ongoing clean up of the issue list. Feel free to ask this in our gitter channel or on stackoverflow.