Package cairo was not found in the pkg-config search path. Node j.s install canvas issue
node.jsCanvasTerminalCaironode.js Problem Overview
I am having a problem installing installing the canvas module in node..It seems to be something with cairo I am getting this error...
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/canvas
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/canvas
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/nan
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/nan
> canvas@1.1.3 install /Users/plimb/Desktop/motion-therapy/node_modules/canvas
> node-gyp rebuild
Package cairo was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `cairo.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'cairo' found
gyp: Call to './util/has_cairo_freetype.sh' returned exit status 0. while trying to load binding.gyp
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:424:16)
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:789:12)
gyp ERR! System Darwin 13.0.0
gyp ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /Users/plimb/Desktop/motion-therapy/node_modules/canvas
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.21
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.10.10
gyp ERR! not ok
npm ERR! weird error 1
npm ERR! not ok code 0
I'm not sure what it all means! Would appreciate any help!For example how to a mkdir cairo pc in the pkg_config_path environment variable?
node.js Solutions
Solution 1 - node.js
Had the same problem and @Epistemex's link helped me troubleshoot it.
> ... You need to install libcairo2-dev, libjpeg-dev and libgif-dev packages ...
sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev libjpeg-dev libgif-dev
Solution 2 - node.js
I was also facing same issue on mac so I have tried these steps & I got solution
Mac OSX Version >=10.7.5 node -v = v0.8.12
$ brew install cairo
$ pkg-config --atleast-version=1.12.2 cairo
$ echo $?
If it returns a 1 you will need to set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable so cairo.pc and fontconfig.pc can be found
$ locate cairo.pc
$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/X11/lib/pkgconfig/
Running pkg-config again ...
$ pkg-config --atleast-version=1.12.2 cairo
$ echo $?
If it returns a 0 then all is well in the hood.
$ npm install canvas
Solution 3 - node.js
Had the same problem on OS X 10.11.2 while installing qrcode package.
Solved by installing these ones:
brew install cairo
brew install pkg-config
xcode-select --install
Solution 4 - node.js
If anyone is still having this problem and found this page, the following works for CentOS 6.6:
sudo yum install cairo cairo-devel
Basically the solution is you need to install the development package as well as the regular package (the best answer here does the same thing - except is for Ubuntu - every distro can be different).
Solution 5 - node.js
I followed the steps given by @Piyush. But I needed an extra step to make it work. I'm using OS X 10.14.5
So this is what I followed.
brew install pkg-config
brew install cairo
pkg-config --atleast-version=1.12.2 cairo
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/X11/lib/pkgconfig/
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}:/usr/local/opt/libffi/lib/pkgconfig"
npm install canvas
Solution 6 - node.js
The accepted answer is just fine if you use apt-get. For YUM/DNF users (Fedora, CentOS, other RHEL-like systems), use the following
yum install cairo cairo-devel cairomm-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel pango pango-devel pangomm pangomm-devel
Solution 7 - node.js
For Ubuntu, these're the commands. Also, here's the reference.
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libjpeg-dev libgif-dev librsvg2-dev
Solution 8 - node.js
When I ran into this problem the issue was that the version of pkg-config on my path was the version supplied by chefdk instead of the homebrew installed version.
$ which pkg-config
/usr/local/bin/pkg-config
$ eval "$(chef shell-init bash)"
$ which pkg-config
/opt/chefdk/embedded/bin/pkg-config
The solution was to remove the eval "$(chef shell-init bash)" entry from my bash profile.
More discussion of the issue in chefdk's path generation on Github https://github.com/chef/chef-dk/issues/313
Solution 9 - node.js
Try this on mac:
brew install pkg-config cairo pango libpng jpeg giflib
Solution 10 - node.js
I just needed to install pkg-config on OSX 10.10.4
brew install pkg-config