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As of today I can't install ngrok via npm, I get the following output on Debian with node 5.0.4:
sudo npm install ngrok -g
/usr/local/bin/ngrok -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ngrok/bin/ngrok
> [email protected] postinstall /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ngrok
> node ./postinstall.js
ngrok - downloading binary https://bin.equinox.io/c/4VmDzA7iaHb/ngrok-stable-linux-amd64.zip ...
ngrok - error downloading binary. { Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ngrok/bin/ngrok.zip'
errno: -13,
code: 'EACCES',
syscall: 'open',
path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ngrok/bin/ngrok.zip' }
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] postinstall: `node ./postinstall.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] postinstall 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! /root/.npm/_logs/2017-06-28T11_13_44_043Z-debug.log
Installation was working fine 10 days ago.
This also breaks the installation of https://github.com/expo/exp
@bserem Same here, I used this installation method on my last machine a few months ago, but after reinstalling it yesterday it doesn't work anymore. I get the same error message.
Managed to install it by using yarn instead of npm In my case I was installing ngrok with exp, so I used yarn global add exp
I was having the same issue with npm install -g exp. I also tried with yarn global add exp and it didnt work. What worked was installing ngrok through yarn "yarn global add ngrok" and then "yarn global add exp" and it worked
for node installs on linux mint and ubuntu where it gets installed in /usr/bin/node and /usr/lib/node_modules, this did the trick for me:
$sudo yarn global add ngork --modules-folder /usr/lib/node_modules $sudo yarn global add exp --modules-folder /usr/lib/node_modules
This is didn't work for me on a generic EC2 Linux AMI but I have it working on another EC2 Linux AMI where it works perfectly. Both instances are setup the same way but for some reason this one will not let me setup ngrok. I get the same exact error that started this thread. I've tired as root several times and rebooted, no idea whats up. Same versions between each instance.
The same for my on Windows 10, I test with npm and yarn, download fine the package and never end of unpack . Any Idea of what happen??
Yeah I'm experiencing this on a brand new Ubuntu build within an ESXI environment.
Yeah, so I downloaded ngrok directly from the source on my Ubuntu machine using wget and unzipped and placed within the usr/local/ folder and it works like a charm now.
Forrest whatever reason downloading via package manager ngrok fails.
I removed sudo from the beginning of the command and it installed with npm (was failing with sudo)! BTW, I was installing "sudo npm install exp --global" when I saw the above error mentioned above.
This one did the trick for me:
sudo npm i -g ngrok --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root
@brezzhnev This is the answer. But why is this now necessary and can it be fixed?
@brownbl1 just grabbed from here: https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/10293#issuecomment-370334351
Actually, have no idea, would like to ask this question to devs as well :)
For me, npm is like a black box, you never know what could happen whenever you try to install or update dependencies.
I just saw one line with sudo, unsafe and allow-root... This is what nightmares are made of
Same problem on Windows 10. Will this be fixed?
npm install ngrok --unsafe-perm=true --save
It only works with unsafe-perm param.
This one did the trick for me:
sudo npm i -g ngrok --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root
It worked for me... great, thanks
Chiming in here in 2020 - still the same issue of not being able to find module postinstall.js
I'm on a Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS machine, Node 12.17.0 via NVM
Surely passing sudo, --unsafe-perm=true, and --allow-root cannot be the answer?
EDIT: Just found https://github.com/bubenshchykov/ngrok/issues/115#issuecomment-380927124
It looks like until postinstall.js is removed, Linux and macOS users have to do it this way.
if you're on a macbook with an M1 processor and faced this problem again, make sure that u're using at least the 4.2.2 package version of ngrock
good luck
After Using npm i -g ngrok --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root (windows) also I get below error ngrok - downloading progress: npm ERR! ngrok - error downloading from URL RequestError: unable to get local issuer certificate
Virtualbox Ubuntu 18.04 node version 8.16 I can't install the package by npm
[email protected] postinstall /home/ir-admin/projects/work/inreality/dms/dms-client-node/node_modules/ngrok node ./postinstall.js
ngrok - downloading binary https://bin.equinox.io/c/4VmDzA7iaHb/ngrok-stable-linux-amd64.zip
ngrok - error downloading binary { Error: certificate has expired
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