cannot install noble on RPI3

[lachlan-peter]

Have RPI3 running latest OS (Linux 4.9) [Stretch-lite) and latest nodejs (8.9 LTS) and loaded:
$ sudo apt-get install bluetooth bluez libbluetooth-dev libudev-dev bluez build-essential

and trying to install noble using:
$ sudo npm install -g noble

Fails with:
WARN checkPermissions Missing write acccess to /home/pi/noble/node_modules/xpc-connection
WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /home/pi/noble/node_modules
ERR path /home/pi/noble/node_modules/xpc-connection

Dont know why it is installing in local directory and not in /usr/lib/node_modules
Also dont know how to overcome the permissions problem.

Tried with the --build-from-source option and getting lots of permission denied errors. This at least put the module in /usr/lib/node_modules.

Also tried downloading from git
$ git clone https://github.com/sandeepmistry/noble.git
$ cd noble
create bindings file with source -> index.js
$ node-gyp configure
$ node-gyp build
But also get errors

Others seem to be running noble on rpi ok. Maybe its because I am running a minimal version of 'stretch' and something is missing. Maybe noble is not compatible with node 8.9 LTS. Other node modules load ok such as socket.io, node-red, and others. Serialport i have to compile for armhf machine but works ok.

Any suggestions on where to look?
Lachlan

[seppestas]

Why are you installing noble globally?

[lachlan-peter]

I was proposing to use noble for node-red applications and also my own node applications.

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However, I have tried to install noble locally in the ~/.node-red directory but get the error:
~/.node-red $ npm install noble
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /home/pi/.node-red/node_modules/noble
npm WARN node-red-project@0.0.1 No repository field.
npm WARN node-red-project@0.0.1 No license field.

npm ERR! path /home/pi/.node-red/node_modules/noble
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! syscall access
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/home/pi/.node-red/node_modules/noble'

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When I try to install just in the home directory I get the error:
~ $ npm install noble

usb@1.2.0 install /home/pi/node_modules/usb
node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build
node-pre-gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
node-pre-gyp verb cli [ '/usr/bin/node',
node-pre-gyp verb cli '/home/pi/node_modules/usb/node_modules/.bin/node-pre-gyp',
node-pre-gyp verb cli 'install',
node-pre-gyp verb cli '--fallback-to-build' ]
node-pre-gyp info using node-pre-gyp@0.6.30
node-pre-gyp info using node@8.9.0 | linux | arm
node-pre-gyp verb command install []
node-pre-gyp info check checked for "/home/pi/node_modules/usb/src/binding/usb_bindings.node" (not found)
node-pre-gyp http GET https://github.com/tessel/node-usb/releases/download/1.2.0/usb_bindings-v1.2.0-node-v57-linux-arm.tar.gz
node-pre-gyp http 404 https://github.com/tessel/node-usb/releases/download/1.2.0/usb_bindings-v1.2.0-node-v57-linux-arm.tar.gz
node-pre-gyp ERR! Tried to download: https://github.com/tessel/node-usb/releases/download/1.2.0/usb_bindings-v1.2.0-node-v57-linux-arm.tar.gz
node-pre-gyp ERR! Pre-built binaries not found for usb@1.2.0 and node@8.9.0 (node-v57 ABI) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp)
node-pre-gyp http Pre-built binary not available for your system, looked for https://github.com/tessel/node-usb/releases/download/1.2.0/usb_bindings-v1.2.0-node-v57-linux-arm.tar.gz

Followed by lots of errors:

An ideas of the problem?
Lachlan

[seppestas]

I think you might have SD card corruption problems, sometimes this causes the SD card to become unwritable which might be reported as a permission error.

Could you try just creating a file in your home directory?

[lachlan-peter]

I have no problems installing other npm modules locally and globally, so there appears to be no problem with the SD card. Also, because I have spent a lot of time trying to compile the code from source and installing many different ways, I re-imaged my SD card with a new image and I am still having problems with only this module whereas all other functions such as apt-get update and apt-get install work fine.

[forrestal]

@lachlan-peter have you found solution tho this problem? Experiencing similar behavior on my rpi3.

> usb@1.3.1 install /home/pi/node_modules/usb
> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build

node-pre-gyp ERR! Tried to download(404): https://github.com/tessel/node-usb/releases/download/1.3.1/usb_bindings-v1.3.1-node-v51-linux-arm.tar.gz
node-pre-gyp ERR! Pre-built binaries not found for usb@1.3.1 and node@7.10.1 (node-v51 ABI, glibc) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp)

[grover]

Please try installing using npm install -g noble --unsafe-perm - that solved the gyp issues in my case.

[forrestal]

Ok, got some better results

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo npm install -g noble --unsafe-perm

> usb@1.3.1 install /usr/lib/node_modules/noble/node_modules/usb
> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build

node-pre-gyp ERR! Tried to download(404): https://github.com/tessel/node-usb/releases/download/1.3.1/usb_bindings-v1.3.1-node-v51-linux-arm.tar.gz
node-pre-gyp ERR! Pre-built binaries not found for usb@1.3.1 and node@7.10.1 (node-v51 ABI, glibc) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp)
make: Entering directory '/usr/lib/node_modules/noble/node_modules/usb/build'
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/libusb/libusb/libusb/core.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/libusb/libusb/libusb/descriptor.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/libusb/libusb/libusb/hotplug.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/libusb/libusb/libusb/io.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/libusb/libusb/libusb/strerror.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/libusb/libusb/libusb/sync.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/libusb/libusb/libusb/os/poll_posix.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/libusb/libusb/libusb/os/threads_posix.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/libusb/libusb/libusb/os/linux_usbfs.o
  CC(target) Release/obj.target/libusb/libusb/libusb/os/linux_udev.o
  AR(target) Release/obj.target/usb.a
  COPY Release/usb.a
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/usb_bindings/src/node_usb.o
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/usb_bindings/src/device.o
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/usb_bindings/src/transfer.o
  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/obj.target/usb_bindings.node
  COPY Release/usb_bindings.node
  COPY /usr/lib/node_modules/noble/node_modules/usb/src/binding/usb_bindings.node
  TOUCH Release/obj.target/action_after_build.stamp
make: Leaving directory '/usr/lib/node_modules/noble/node_modules/usb/build'
/usr/lib
└─┬ noble@1.8.1
  └─┬ bluetooth-hci-socket@0.5.1
    └─┬ usb@1.3.1
      └─┬ node-pre-gyp@0.6.39
        ├── detect-libc@1.0.3
        ├─┬ hawk@3.1.3
        │ ├── boom@2.10.1
        │ ├── cryptiles@2.0.5
        │ ├── hoek@2.16.3
        │ └── sntp@1.0.9
        ├─┬ mkdirp@0.5.1
        │ └── minimist@0.0.8
        ├─┬ nopt@4.0.1
        │ ├── abbrev@1.1.1
        │ └─┬ osenv@0.1.4
        │   ├── os-homedir@1.0.2
        │   └── os-tmpdir@1.0.2
        ├─┬ npmlog@4.1.2
        │ ├─┬ are-we-there-yet@1.1.4
        │ │ └── delegates@1.0.0
        │ ├── console-control-strings@1.1.0
        │ ├─┬ gauge@2.7.4
        │ │ ├── aproba@1.2.0
        │ │ ├── has-unicode@2.0.1
        │ │ ├── object-assign@4.1.1
        │ │ ├── signal-exit@3.0.2
        │ │ ├─┬ string-width@1.0.2
        │ │ │ ├── code-point-at@1.1.0
        │ │ │ └─┬ is-fullwidth-code-point@1.0.0
        │ │ │   └── number-is-nan@1.0.1
        │ │ ├─┬ strip-ansi@3.0.1
        │ │ │ └── ansi-regex@2.1.1
        │ │ └── wide-align@1.1.2
        │ └── set-blocking@2.0.0
        ├─┬ rc@1.2.2
        │ ├── deep-extend@0.4.2
        │ ├── ini@1.3.5
        │ ├── minimist@1.2.0
        │ └── strip-json-comments@2.0.1
        ├─┬ request@2.81.0
        │ ├── aws-sign2@0.6.0
        │ ├── aws4@1.6.0
        │ ├── caseless@0.12.0
        │ ├─┬ combined-stream@1.0.5
        │ │ └── delayed-stream@1.0.0
        │ ├── extend@3.0.1
        │ ├── forever-agent@0.6.1
        │ ├─┬ form-data@2.1.4
        │ │ └── asynckit@0.4.0
        │ ├─┬ har-validator@4.2.1
        │ │ ├─┬ ajv@4.11.8
        │ │ │ ├── co@4.6.0
        │ │ │ └─┬ json-stable-stringify@1.0.1
        │ │ │   └── jsonify@0.0.0
        │ │ └── har-schema@1.0.5
        │ ├─┬ http-signature@1.1.1
        │ │ ├── assert-plus@0.2.0
        │ │ ├─┬ jsprim@1.4.1
        │ │ │ ├── assert-plus@1.0.0
        │ │ │ ├── extsprintf@1.3.0
        │ │ │ ├── json-schema@0.2.3
        │ │ │ └─┬ verror@1.10.0
        │ │ │   └── assert-plus@1.0.0
        │ │ └─┬ sshpk@1.13.1
        │ │   ├── asn1@0.2.3
        │ │   ├── assert-plus@1.0.0
        │ │   ├── bcrypt-pbkdf@1.0.1
        │ │   ├─┬ dashdash@1.14.1
        │ │   │ └── assert-plus@1.0.0
        │ │   ├── ecc-jsbn@0.1.1
        │ │   ├─┬ getpass@0.1.7
        │ │   │ └── assert-plus@1.0.0
        │ │   ├── jsbn@0.1.1
        │ │   └── tweetnacl@0.14.5
        │ ├── is-typedarray@1.0.0
        │ ├── isstream@0.1.2
        │ ├── json-stringify-safe@5.0.1
        │ ├─┬ mime-types@2.1.17
        │ │ └── mime-db@1.30.0
        │ ├── oauth-sign@0.8.2
        │ ├── performance-now@0.2.0
        │ ├── qs@6.4.0
        │ ├── safe-buffer@5.1.1
        │ ├── stringstream@0.0.5
        │ ├─┬ tough-cookie@2.3.3
        │ │ └── punycode@1.4.1
        │ ├── tunnel-agent@0.6.0
        │ └── uuid@3.1.0
        ├─┬ rimraf@2.6.2
        │ └─┬ glob@7.1.2
        │   ├── fs.realpath@1.0.0
        │   ├── inflight@1.0.6
        │   ├─┬ minimatch@3.0.4
        │   │ └─┬ brace-expansion@1.1.8
        │   │   ├── balanced-match@1.0.0
        │   │   └── concat-map@0.0.1
        │   └── path-is-absolute@1.0.1
        ├── semver@5.4.1
        ├─┬ tar@2.2.1
        │ ├── block-stream@0.0.9
        │ ├─┬ fstream@1.0.11
        │ │ └── graceful-fs@4.1.11
        │ └── inherits@2.0.3
        └─┬ tar-pack@3.4.1
          ├── fstream-ignore@1.0.5
          ├─┬ once@1.4.0
          │ └── wrappy@1.0.2
          ├─┬ readable-stream@2.3.3
          │ ├── core-util-is@1.0.2
          │ ├── isarray@1.0.0
          │ ├── process-nextick-args@1.0.7
          │ ├── string_decoder@1.0.3
          │ └── util-deprecate@1.0.2
          └── uid-number@0.0.6

npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: xpc-connection@~0.1.4 (node_modules/noble/node_modules/xpc-connection):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for xpc-connection@0.1.4: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"arm"})

But I'm not sure if this means everything compiled and is ok. How to check if noble installed properly?

[Kepete]

I have same problem like you, have been trying to find a solution for days.
I run into exact same problems until I tried sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm noble

But it seems that it is still not correctly installed. The program that needs it says problem in noble. Any ideas what else can be wrong?

Before installing noble I used the command sudo apt-get install libbluetooth-dev libudev-dev

[yagizyalcintas]

May I ask why this issue is closed while everyone (including me) having the same problem while no solution is given?

[MMrj9]

having the same problem on MAC OS

[dsteinman]

This ticket should be reopened. On a fresh Raspbian install noble is still not compiling on RPi3.

/home/pi/.node-gyp/10.15.3/include/node/v8config.h:324:3: note: in definition of macro ‘V8_DEPRECATED’
   declarator __attribute__((deprecated(message)))
   ^~~~~~~~~~
binding.target.mk:99: recipe for target 'Release/obj.target/binding/src/BluetoothHciSocket.o' failed
make: *** [Release/obj.target/binding/src/BluetoothHciSocket.o] Error 1
make: Leaving directory '/home/pi/node_modules/bluetooth-hci-socket/build'
gyp ERR! build error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:262:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:189:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:248:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.14.98-v7+
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /home/pi/node_modules/bluetooth-hci-socket
gyp ERR! node -v v10.15.3
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok 
npm WARN saveError ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/pi/package.json'
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/pi/package.json'
npm WARN pi No description
npm WARN pi No repository field.
npm WARN pi No README data
npm WARN pi No license field.
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: xpc-connection@0.1.4 (node_modules/xpc-connection):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for xpc-connection@0.1.4: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"arm"})
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: bluetooth-hci-socket@0.5.1 (node_modules/bluetooth-hci-socket):
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: bluetooth-hci-socket@0.5.1 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Exit status 1

+ noble@1.9.1
added 4 packages from 4 contributors and audited 121 packages in 75.95s
found 2 low severity vulnerabilities
  run `npm audit fix` to fix them, or `npm audit` for details

The exact commands I ran were:

wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v10.15.3/node-v10.15.3-linux-armv7l.tar.gz
tar xfz node-v10.15.3-linux-armv7l.tar.gz
cd node-v10.15.3-linux-armv7l
sudo cp -R * /usr/local/
sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt-get install gcc g++ make
sudo apt-get install libbluetooth-dev libudev-dev
npm install noble

using npm install --unsafe-perm noble has no effect

using node v12 has no effect