Strapi installation fails due to blocked npm/github repo, is there any other offline way to setup strapi

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Hi Team,

im installing strapi on centos 7 server, in our org access to npm & github repo is blocked, is there another way to install starapi ?

info sharp Downloading https://github.com/lovell/sharp-libvips/releases/download/v8.10.0/libvips-8.10.0-linux-x64.tar.br
ERR! sharp tunneling socket could not be established, statusCode=403
info sharp Attempting to build from source via node-gyp but this may fail due to the above error
info sharp Please see https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/install for required dependencies
make: Entering directory /home/centos/test1/node_modules/sharp/build' TOUCH Release/obj.target/libvips-cpp.stamp CC(target) Release/obj.target/nothing/node_modules/node-addon-api/nothing.o AR(target) Release/obj.target/node_modules/node-addon-api/nothing.a COPY Release/nothing.a CXX(target) Release/obj.target/sharp/src/common.o ../src/common.cc:24:22: fatal error: vips/vips8: No such file or directory #include <vips/vips8> ^ compilation terminated. make: *** [Release/obj.target/sharp/src/common.o] Error 1 make: Leaving directory /home/centos/test1/node_modules/sharp/build’
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: make failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (/home/centos/node-v12.18.4-linux-x64/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:194:23)
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:315:20)
gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:275:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 3.10.0-1127.18.2.el7.x86_64
gyp ERR! command “/home/centos/node-v12.18.4-linux-x64/bin/node” “/home/centos/node-v12.18.4-linux-x64/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js” “rebuild”
gyp ERR! cwd /home/centos/test1/node_modules/sharp
gyp ERR! node -v v12.18.4
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v5.1.0
gyp ERR! not ok
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@~2.1.2 (node_modules/chokidar/node_modules/fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@2.1.3: wanted {“os”:“darwin”,“arch”:“any”} (current: {“os”:“linux”,“arch”:“x64”})
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@^1.2.7 (node_modules/watchpack-chokidar2/node_modules/chokidar/node_modules/fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.2.13: wanted {“os”:“darwin”,“arch”:“any”} (current: {“os”:“linux”,“arch”:“x64”})
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@^1.2.7 (node_modules/webpack-dev-server/node_modules/chokidar/node_modules/fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.2.13: wanted {“os”:“darwin”,“arch”:“any”} (current: {“os”:“linux”,“arch”:“x64”})
npm WARN @buffetjs/utils@3.3.1 requires a peer of yup@^0.27.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN bootstrap@4.5.3 requires a peer of jquery@1.9.1 - 3 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN strapi-connector-bookshelf@3.2.3 requires a peer of knex@^0.20.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! sharp@0.26.0 install: (node install/libvips && node install/dll-copy && prebuild-install) || (node-gyp rebuild && node install/dll-copy)
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the sharp@0.26.0 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! /home/centos/.npm/_logs/2020-10-14T12_07_46_464Z-debug.log

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@Parag_Borle I believe I redirected here to the forums from another issue or discussion elsewhere (and can’t seem to find it)

If I remember correctly I believe I mentioned the issue is coming from sharp and for some reason it’s not pulling the pre-compiled binaries and it attempting to construct the libvips binary from the source code.

In your case access to a GitHub repo will be required and as NPM is now owned by GitHub/Microsoft I believe you will need to contact your Security Operations team and apply an exception here. Going forward in the ecosystem I believe GitHub intends to push more and more packages over to their packages system and slowly phase out NPM.

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Hi Derrick,

i went through your reply, was thinking there might be some other way, of installing strapi as our organisation security team will not allow access to github & Npm repo. it would be helpful if you suggest us some other way, offline install or something similar to that.

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To my knowledge there is no other way, that issue doesn’t come from Strapi but one of our dependencies, Sharp: GitHub - lovell/sharp: High performance Node.js image processing, the fastest module to resize JPEG, PNG,

That will need to be something you explore with them in this case.