I have node.js installed and I have tried various commands and installations but I keep getting a weird error when trying to do
npm install robotjs
So this is the error
root@name-VirtualBox:/home/name/Desktop# npm install robotjs
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path /home/name/node_modules/robotjs
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c prebuild-install || node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! make: Entering directory '/home/name/node_modules/robotjs/build'
npm ERR! CXX(target) Release/obj.target/robotjs/src/robotjs.o
npm ERR! make: Leaving directory '/home/name/node_modules/robotjs/build'
npm ERR! gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
npm ERR! gyp info using [email protected]
npm ERR! gyp info using [email protected] | linux | x64
npm ERR! gyp info find Python using Python version 3.10.6 found at "/usr/bin/python3"
npm ERR! gyp info spawn /usr/bin/python3
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args [
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '/usr/share/nodejs/node-gyp/gyp/gyp_main.py',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args 'binding.gyp',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-f',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args 'make',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-I',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '/home/name/node_modules/robotjs/build/config.gypi',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-I',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '/usr/share/nodejs/node-gyp/addon.gypi',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-I',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '/usr/include/nodejs/common.gypi',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-Dlibrary=shared_library',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-Dvisibility=default',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-Dnode_root_dir=/usr/include/nodejs',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-Dnode_gyp_dir=/usr/share/nodejs/node-gyp',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-Dnode_lib_file=/usr/include/nodejs/<(target_arch)/node.lib',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-Dmodule_root_dir=/home/name/node_modules/robotjs',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-Dnode_engine=v8',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '--depth=.',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '--no-parallel',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '--generator-output',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args 'build',
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args '-Goutput_dir=.'
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args ]
npm ERR! gyp info spawn make
npm ERR! gyp info spawn args [ 'BUILDTYPE=Release', '-C', 'build' ]
npm ERR! cc1plus: warning: command-line option ‘-Wbad-function-cast’ is valid for C/ObjC but not for C++
npm ERR! In file included from ../src/keypress.h:6,
npm ERR! from ../src/robotjs.cc:7:
npm ERR! ../src/keycode.h:112:10: fatal error: X11/Xutil.h: No such file or directory
npm ERR! 112 | #include <X11/Xutil.h>
npm ERR! | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
npm ERR! compilation terminated.
npm ERR! make: *** [robotjs.target.mk:133: Release/obj.target/robotjs/src/robotjs.o] Error 1
npm ERR! gyp ERR! build error
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/share/nodejs/node-gyp/lib/build.js:194:23)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:314:20)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:276:12)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! System Linux 5.15.0-58-generic
npm ERR! gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/share/nodejs/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
npm ERR! gyp ERR! cwd /home/name/node_modules/robotjs
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node -v v12.22.9
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v8.4.1
npm ERR! gyp ERR! not ok
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /root/.npm/_logs/2023-02-06T22_27_59_161Z-debug-0.log
Any hint would be greatly appreciated!
NPM tells you that a header is missing to be able to compile the library with your version of node.
Just install the missing libraries for the installation of robotjs to pass.
Under Ubuntu:
sudo apt install libx11-dev libxtst-dev
Then the installation of robotjs works (tested on Ubuntu 22.04).