Unable to install on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

[mjbright]

This is my first attempt at using serverless, and I chose to try it with Azure but I'm unable to install this plugin.

Steps performed are:

First to install recent node (v6.11.3) /npm (v3.10.10) from nodesource repo:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x -o nodesource_setup.sh
sudo bash nodesource_setup.sh 
sudo apt-get install nodejs
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
node --version

Then to install serverless and serverless-azure-functions:

sudo npm install -g serverless
sudo npm install -g serverless-azure-functions

serverless installation goes fine.
serverless-azure-functions installation fails with following errors:

npm WARN deprecated node-uuid@1.4.7: Use uuid module instead
npm WARN deprecated minimatch@0.3.0: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue

keytar@4.0.4 install /usr/lib/node_modules/serverless-azure-functions/node_modules/keytar
node-gyp rebuild

gyp WARN EACCES user "root" does not have permission to access the dev dir "/home/mbr/.node-gyp/6.11.3"
gyp WARN EACCES attempting to reinstall using temporary dev dir "/usr/lib/node_modules/serverless-azure-functions/node_modules/keytar/.node-gyp"
/bin/sh: 1: pkg-config: not found
gyp: Call to 'pkg-config --libs-only-l libsecret-1' returned exit status 127 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 (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:305:16)
gyp ERR! stack at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:219:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.4.0-79-generic
gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /usr/lib/node_modules/serverless-azure-functions/node_modules/keytar
gyp ERR! node -v v6.11.3
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.4.0
gyp ERR! not ok
/usr/lib
└── (empty)

npm ERR! Linux 4.4.0-79-generic
npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "serverless-azure-functions"
npm ERR! node v6.11.3
npm ERR! npm v3.10.10
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

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 'node-gyp rebuild'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the keytar package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR! npm bugs keytar
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls keytar
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! /home/mbr/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! code 1

[theoriginalgangster]

I saw errors with node-gyp when I was installing node packages which needing some native building, like xml2json which needed node-expat. I took for granted that my new AWS box didn't have g++ and make. If it's a new box like I think you're saying, that might be the issue.

sudo apt-get install make
sudo apt-get install g++

I think node-gyp is the visible side-effect of the native build going wrong.

[mhaggerty042]

I ran into the same problem. I think the root problem in your logs is gyp: Call to 'pkg-config --libs-only-l libsecret-1' returned exit status 127 while in binding.gyp. while trying to load binding.gyp

Dean @deanobalino posted a solution on gitter

I managed to fix this, needed to install libsecret-1 with sudo apt-get install libsecret-1-dev

I couldn't figure out how to link directly to the gitter convo.

[kahwooi]

This issue is not solve yet?

[JohnMilazzo]

Thank you, @mhaggerty042 and @deanobalino. That fixed it for me as well.