Install problem with new update

[ghoetker]

In trying to update to version 2.5.0 within Atom on a Mac running 10.14.5, I encountered the following installation error.

[email protected] install /private/tmp/apm-install-dir-11966-2835-orh7vd.bvum7/node_modules/script-runner/node_modules/node-pty
node scripts/install.js

gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
gyp verb cli [ '/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/apm/bin/node',
gyp verb cli '/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/apm/node_modules/.bin/node-gyp',
gyp verb cli 'rebuild' ]
gyp info using [email protected]
gyp info using [email protected] | darwin | x64
gyp verb command rebuild []
gyp verb command clean []
gyp verb clean removing "build" directory
gyp verb command configure []
gyp verb check python checking for Python executable "/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/apm/bin/python-interceptor.sh" in the PATH
gyp verb which succeeded /Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/apm/bin/python-interceptor.sh /Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/apm/bin/python-interceptor.sh
gyp verb check python version /Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/apm/bin/python-interceptor.sh -c "import platform; print(platform.python_version());" returned: "3.7.3\n"
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: Python executable "/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/apm/bin/python-interceptor.sh" is v3.7.3, which is not supported by gyp.
gyp ERR! stack You can pass the --python switch to point to Python >= v2.5.0 & < 3.0.0.
gyp ERR! stack at failPythonVersion (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/apm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:454:14)
gyp ERR! stack at /Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/apm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:443:9
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:267:7)
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:925:16)
gyp ERR! stack at Socket.stream.socket.on (internal/child_process.js:346:11)
gyp ERR! stack at emitOne (events.js:116:13)
gyp ERR! stack at Socket.emit (events.js:211:7)
gyp ERR! stack at Pipe._handle.close [as _onclose] (net.js:554:12)
gyp ERR! System Darwin 18.6.0
gyp ERR! command "/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/apm/bin/node" "/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/apm/node_modules/.bin/node-gyp" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /private/tmp/apm-install-dir-11966-2835-orh7vd.bvum7/node_modules/script-runner/node_modules/node-pty
gyp ERR! node -v v8.9.3
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.4.0
gyp ERR! not ok
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/private/tmp/apm-install-dir-11966-2835-orh7vd.bvum7/package.json'
npm WARN apm-install-dir-11966-2835-orh7vd.bvum7 No description
npm WARN apm-install-dir-11966-2835-orh7vd.bvum7 No repository field.
npm WARN apm-install-dir-11966-2835-orh7vd.bvum7 No README data
npm WARN apm-install-dir-11966-2835-orh7vd.bvum7 No license field.

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] install: node scripts/install.js
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! /Users/ghoetker/.atom/.apm/_logs/2019-07-06T02_07_27_611Z-debug.log

[ioquatix]

Try this:

ln -s `which python2.7` /Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/apm/bin/python-interceptor.sh

Then reinstall.

[ioquatix]

This is an atom problem by the way: atom/atom#15925

[ioquatix]

I've submitted a request upstream to try and sort this out. Maybe we should submit a PR to apm too.

[alexhaislip]

I am having the same problem

[ioquatix]

The only suggestion I can give you is the one above:

ln -s `which python2.7` /Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/apm/bin/python-interceptor.sh

This forces atom to use python2.7 - otherwise it will use python3.x and this breaks it's own internal build system.

[mrdc]

@ioquatix

Will you be so kind to tell me how to fix it on Windows? Both Python 2.7 and 3 are installed.
On mac it works fine.

[ioquatix]

Windows is unsupported at this time... too many problems with dependencies.

[ioquatix]

I feel like the latest release v2.6.0 should have fixed some of these issues because we bumped node-pty to 0.9.0 and node-gyp has also been updated to work with python3.