Install fails: "Package libsecret-1 was not found in the pkg-config search path"

[luixxiul]

Installing keytar@4.0.4 fails due to the error:

https://travis-ci.org/brave/browser-laptop/jobs/259720746#L957

> keytar@4.0.4 install /home/travis/build/brave/browser-laptop/node_modules/keytar
> node-gyp rebuild
Package libsecret-1 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libsecret-1.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libsecret-1' found
gyp: Call to 'pkg-config --libs-only-l libsecret-1' returned exit status 1 while in binding.gyp. while trying to load binding.gyp
gyp ERR! configure error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/home/travis/.nvm/versions/node/v8.2.1/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:336:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at emitTwo (events.js:125:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:213:7)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:200:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.4.0-83-generic
gyp ERR! command "/home/travis/.nvm/versions/node/v8.2.1/bin/node" "/home/travis/.nvm/versions/node/v8.2.1/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /home/travis/build/brave/browser-laptop/node_modules/keytar
gyp ERR! node -v v8.2.1
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.6.2
gyp ERR!m not ok 
npm WARN ajv-keywords@2.1.0 requires a peer of ajv@>=5.0.0 but none was installed.
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: 7zip-bin-win@2.1.0 (node_modules/7zip-bin-win):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for 7zip-bin-win@2.1.0: wanted {"os":"win32","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: 7zip-bin-mac@1.0.1 (node_modules/7zip-bin-mac):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for 7zip-bin-mac@1.0.1: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@1.1.2 (node_modules/fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.1.2: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! keytar@4.0.4 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the keytar@4.0.4 install script.
npm ERR!m 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/travis/.npm/_logs/2017-08-01T11_01_00_160Z-debug.log

Any hint on the error? Thanks!

[winstliu]

Do you have libsecret-1 installed? See the installation instructions.

[luixxiul]

Oh, I didn't notice that. Sorry!

[LinuxDevice]

On Fedora 27, with these installed, the error still shows up:

libsecret-0.18.5-5.fc27.x86_64
libsecret-devel-0.18.5-5.fc27.x86_64

The error shows as:

prebuild-install info unpack required /home/dan/src/atom/script/node_modules/leveldown/build/Release/leveldown.node successfully
prebuild-install info install Successfully installed prebuilt binary!
Installing apm
Package libsecret-1 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libsecret-1.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'libsecret-1', required by 'virtual:world', not found

pkg-config is at "/usr/bin/pkg-config". Running "pkg-config --path libsecret-1" I get:
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libsecret-1.pc

Is there somewhere this must be custom configured outside of the standard system search paths?

[eric-jahn]

'sudo apt-get install libsecret-1-dev'
fixed this error message for me