Installation of autocover plugin fails with latest Gitbook 3

[pkuczynski]

$ gitbook install
info: installing 1 plugin using [email protected] 
info:  
info: installing plugin "autocover" 
info: install plugin "autocover" (*) from NPM with version 2.0.1 
internal/child_process.js:313
    throw errnoException(err, 'spawn');
    ^

Error: spawn E2BIG
    at exports._errnoException (util.js:1036:11)
    at ChildProcess.spawn (internal/child_process.js:313:11)
    at exports.spawn (child_process.js:380:9)
    at spawn (/Users/pkuczynski/.gitbook/versions/3.2.2/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/spawn.js:7:13)
    at runCmd_ (/Users/pkuczynski/.gitbook/versions/3.2.2/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/lifecycle.js:237:14)
    at runCmd (/Users/pkuczynski/.gitbook/versions/3.2.2/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/lifecycle.js:196:5)
    at runPackageLifecycle (/Users/pkuczynski/.gitbook/versions/3.2.2/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/lifecycle.js:160:3)
    at Array.<anonymous> (/Users/pkuczynski/.gitbook/versions/3.2.2/node_modules/npm/node_modules/slide/lib/bind-actor.js:15:8)
    at LOOP (/Users/pkuczynski/.gitbook/versions/3.2.2/node_modules/npm/node_modules/slide/lib/chain.js:15:14)
    at chain (/Users/pkuczynski/.gitbook/versions/3.2.2/node_modules/npm/node_modules/slide/lib/chain.js:20:5)

And then when running gitbook serve

info: loading plugin "autocover"... ERROR

PluginError: Error with plugin "autocover": Cannot find module '../build/Release/canvas'

[php-cpm]

anyone has idea how to go on with this issue?

[hiyangguo]

+1

[moshanATucsd]

I tried npm install canvas, then had another error error: uncaughtException: Image or Canvas expected date

[linrongbin16]

+1, same issue PluginError: Error with plugin "autocover": Cannot find module '../build/Release/canvas'

[darth-veitcher]

Just got this on MacOS

• CLI version: 2.3.2
• GitBook version: 3.2.3
• [email protected]

After wiping the local node_modules and reinstalling again it seems as though the plugin just doesn't fire anymore (no cover gets created so assume it fails silently during build).

[greysoftcrazy]

PluginError: Error with plugin "autocover": libpng16.so.16: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[vanabel]

I fix it by modify the package.json of YOURBOOKDIR/node_modules/gitbook-plugin-autocover the line:

"canvas": "1.3.15"

to

"canvas-prebuilt": "latest"

and then run npm install in the gitbook-plugin-autocover.

Also I have note that on my macOS, the node-gyp rebuild will use python 3.6.5 which is not supported. You can set node-gyp rebuild --python=python2.7 or npm config set python python2.7. In case you want to rebuild the original canvas.

[NeoTim]

"dependencies": { "canvas-prebuilt": "latest", "canvg": "^0.0.8", "geopattern": "1.2.3", "lodash": "^4.5.0", "q": "^1.4.1" },

[NeoTim]

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