Cannot install usb-detection (v4.1.0): Command Failed

[AshishCMSingh]

Cannot install usb-detection (v4.1.0): Command Failed

Getting the following log,

yarn add v1.15.2
[1/4] Resolving packages...
[2/4] Fetching packages...
info fsevents@1.2.7: The platform "win32" is incompatible with this module.
info "fsevents@1.2.7" is an optional dependency and failed compatibility check. Excluding it from installation.
[3/4] Linking dependencies...
[4/4] Building fresh packages...
[5/5] ⠐ edge-js
[-/5] ⠐ waiting...
[-/5] ⠐ waiting...
[4/5] ⠐ usb-detection
error <some path>\node_modules\usb-detection: Command failed.
Exit code: 1
Command: prebuild-install || node-gyp rebuild
Arguments:
Directory: <some path>\node_modules\usb-detection
Output:
prebuild-install WARN install No prebuilt binaries found (target=10.15.0 runtime=node arch=x64 libc= platform=win32)

<some path>\node_modules\usb-detection>if not defined npm_config_node_gyp (node "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin\\..\..\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild )  else (node "" rebuild )
gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
gyp info using node-gyp@3.8.0
gyp info using node@10.15.0 | win32 | x64
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: Command failed: C:\Program Files\Python37\python.EXE -c import sys; print "%s.%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:3];
gyp ERR! stack   File "<string>", line 1
gyp ERR! stack     import sys; print "%s.%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:3];
gyp ERR! stack                                ^
gyp ERR! stack SyntaxError: invalid syntax
gyp ERR! stack
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:294:12)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:182:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:962:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:251:5)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.16299
gyp ERR! command "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd <some path>\node_modules\usb-detection

[MadLittleMods]

It looks like you are using Python 3.7. Probably best to use Python 2.7 since node-gyp doesn't support Python 3 yet

• Support for Python 3 nodejs/node-gyp#1337
• Support for Python 3 nodejs/node-gyp#193

See https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp#configuring-python-dependency if you have multiple Python versions installed

[AshishCMSingh]

Thank you @MadLittleMods for the quick support, by using the following command on the elevated command prompt I was able to install the usb-detection

npm config set python C:\Python27