Facing error on installation of Strapi . " Something went wrong installing the "sharp" module"

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Suddenly I’d started to have same issue as well. Just scaled down the replica set to 0 and later scaled up to 1 and that’s it.

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I’d set NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED to bypass that. I might expect that something gets borked when I do strapi start

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Mac Mini M1

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If it broks someting it is image upload that is the only thing sharp is used for.

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Ye is an issue with sharp and spesific Macs where under M1’s

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Give it a shot starting from node:16-alpine3.17

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That didn’t fix it unfortunately :frowning:

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Can you try installing sharp with this for me?

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Strange. I used your steps and it worked for me on alpine 3.17.

Once you have done apk update && apk add --no-cache build-base gcc autoconf automake zlib-dev libpng-dev nasm bash vips-dev can you type in python3 --version and give the output?

Then when you have done yarn config set network-timeout 600000 -g && yarn install can you go into /opt/app/node_modules/sharp, run yarn install and provide the output?

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@ Eventyret I am still getting a dependency timeout error when I attempt to install Strapi. I followed the instructions to install vips and downgrade node and I am still not having any luck.
Environment: Mac OSX Venture, VS Code, Brew/Node
Error:
npx create-strapi-app@latest strapi_cmlcol
? Choose your installation type Quickstart (recommended)
Creating a quickstart project.
Creating a new Strapi application at /Users/Desktop/cml_col/strapi_cmlcol.
Creating files.
Error while installing dependencies:
npm WARN config production Use --omit=dev instead.
npm WARN config optional Use --omit=optional to exclude optional dependencies, or
npm WARN config --include=optional to include them.
npm WARN config
npm WARN config Default value does install optional deps unless otherwise omitted.
npm ERR! code FETCH_ERROR
npm ERR! errno FETCH_ERROR
npm ERR! request to https://codeload.github.com/strapi/ts-zen/tar.gz/66e02232f5997674cc7032ea3ee59d9864863732 failed, reason: undefined

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: /Users/.npm/_logs/2023-10-02T20_55_42_161Z-debug-0.log
TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘addBreadcrumb’)
at /Users/.npm/_npx/2d56dd13733e9da7/node_modules/@strapi/generate-new/dist/utils/usage.js:67:28
at Array.forEach ()
at captureStderr (/Users/.npm/_npx/2d56dd13733e9da7/node_modules/@strapi/generate-new/dist/utils/usage.js:66:14)
at createProject (/Users/.npm/_npx/2d56dd13733e9da7/node_modules/@strapi/generate-new/dist/create-project.js:136:41)
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
at async createQuickStartProject (/Users/.npm/_npx/2d56dd13733e9da7/node_modules/@strapi/generate-new/dist/create-quickstart-project.js:21:5)

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I just thought I’d mention what worked for me in case it helps anyone else.

In my case I didn’t have a .dockerignore configured correctly to exclude node_modules. This caused the container to try to use binaries that were built for the host platform. This isn’t the way.

I did have a .dockerignore file, but it was one level up in my docker-compose folder. It needed to be in the docker build context… i.e the folder with your Dockerfile in it.

I share my shame so others may learn :joy:

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Just in case it’s useful to anyone. Using alpine 3.17 fixed the issue for me.

I’m still curious because I would like to upgrade alpine later so probably I’ll have to play around with sharp version instead as mentioned in this post: Facing error on installation of Strapi . " Something went wrong installing the "sharp" module" - #17 by Tom

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And for me, i didn’t pin my dev versions. won’t be making that mistake again!

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@jac1013 and @heavyengineer for the updates.

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I have the same problem, I want to make an image with docker and I get the same problem, I want to use Pupperter and I install dependencies, but when I run I get the error
debug: :no_entry: Server wasn’t able to start properly.
2024-01-08 09:40:03 [2024-01-08 15:40:03.167] error: Could not load js config file /opt/app/node_modules/@strapi/plugin-upload/strapi-server.js:
2024-01-08 09:40:03 Something went wrong installing the “sharp” module

FROM node:16

Installing libvips-dev for sharp Compatibility

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install libvips-dev -y
RUN apt install -y gconf-service libgbm-dev libasound2 libatk1.0-0 libc6 libcairo2 libcups2 libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libgcc1 libgconf-2-4 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libglib2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libnspr4 libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libstdc++6 libx11-6 libx11-xcb1 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxi6 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxss1 libxtst6 ca-certifica tes fonts-liberation libappindicator1 libnss3 lsb-release xdg-utils wget
ARG NODE_ENV=development
ENV NODE_ENV=${NODE_ENV}

Install Google Chrome Stable and fonts

Note: this installs the necessary libs to make the browser work with Puppeteer.

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install gnupg wget -y &&
wget --quiet --output-document=- https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | gpg --dearmor > /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/google-archive.gpg &&
sh -c ‘echo “deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main” >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list’ &&
apt-get update &&
apt-get install google-chrome-stable -y --no-install-recommends &&
rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

WORKDIR /opt/
COPY package.json package-lock.json ./
RUN npm install -g node-gyp
RUN npm config set fetch-retry-maxtimeout 600000 -g && npm install
RUN npm install --ignore-scripts=false --foreground-scripts --verbose sharp
RUN npm install --platform=linux --arch=x64 sharp
RUN npm cache clean -f
RUN npm i --verbose sharp@latest
ENV PATH /opt/node_modules/.bin:$PATH

WORKDIR /opt/app
COPY ./ .

RUN npm run build
EXPOSE 3001
CMD [“npm”, “run”, “develop”]

can you give me a correction

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If you are using docker etc you might want to consider use something like puppeteer core etc instead of puppeteer.

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It’s Jan 16, 2024 and I ran into all the same issues. npm run develop and npm run start both fail silently without error. This is a really bad developer user experience and should definitely be documented. I also posted another issue related to communications on Strapi 3 install and node versions, verse Strapi 4 installation. IMHO…this is a mess, especially for such an awesome project/product.

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I just ran in the same issue while trying to add sharp 0.33.2 to a custom plugin. This SO question hinted that downgrading sharp to 0.32.6 solves the issue, which it did in my case.

Still, not a long term solution.

I did try everything that was suggested (forcing os at install, deleting package-lock, etc) without any success.

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I had an issue with Macbook M1 and sharp, here was my workaround so I can use node 18 and a recent strapi (in case pple still searching)

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Even two years later the issue persists.
What I already tried:

[2024-04-19 22:42:41.193] debug: ⛔️ Server wasn't able to start properly.
[2024-04-19 22:42:41.195] error: Could not load js config file C:\Users\username\Repositories\strapi-project\node_modules\@strapi\plugin-upload\strapi-server.js:
Something went wrong installing the "sharp" module

Cannot find module '../build/Release/sharp-win32-x64.node'

OS version: Win 10
Node version: 20.12.2
NPM version: 10.5.2

Any help appreciated!