Trying to install puppeteer on Centos 7
npm i puppeteer
> [email protected] postinstall /mypath/node_modules/puppeteer
> node install.js
internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:775
throw err;
^
Error: Cannot find module 'puppeteer/internal/node/install.js'
Require stack:
- /mypath/node_modules/puppeteer/install.js
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:772:15)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:677:27)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:830:19)
at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:68:18)
at Object.<anonymous> (/mypath/node_modules/puppeteer/install.js:38:27)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:936:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:947:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:790:32)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:703:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:999:10) {
code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
requireStack: [
'/mypath/node_modules/puppeteer/install.js'
]
}
It doesn't seem to have downloaded anything into the node_modules/ directory, which I think "npm i" should do, and all of the tutorials I have read do not ask you perform any action or download, before running the npm command.
What do I need to do, to make this install puppeteer? (with chrome)
I was getting this error because my node version was too old (version 10) but fixed it by switching to version 16.
To fix this I used nvm from the command line as follows:
nvm use 16
nvm alias default 16