Failed npm install due to postinstall.js

[jotradovec]

Bug report

• [x ] I confirm this is a bug with Supabase, not with my own application.
• [x ] I confirm I have searched the Docs, GitHub Discussions, and Discord.

Describe the bug

I cannot do npm install nor npm ci

To Reproduce

1. Go to project folder
2. Run npm install @supabase/supabase-js
3. See error

Expected behavior

Install runs smoothly

Screenshots

npm error code 1
npm error path /home//PycharmProjects/.../backend/node_modules/supabase
npm error command failed
npm error command sh -c node scripts/postinstall.js

npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /home//.npm/_logs/2024-07-02T07_06_25_702Z-debug-0.log

System information

• OS: Ubuntu
• Version of Node.js: v18.20.3

Additional context

Content of the log:
65 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/@supabase/supabase-js/-/supabase-js-2.44.2.tgz 1969ms (cache miss)
66 info run @nestjs/[email protected] postinstall node_modules/@nestjs/core opencollective || exit 0
67 info run [email protected] postinstall node_modules/nestjs-pino node postinstall.js
68 info run [email protected] postinstall node_modules/supabase node scripts/postinstall.js
69 info run @nestjs/[email protected] postinstall { code: 0, signal: null }
70 info run [email protected] postinstall { code: 1, signal: null }
71 verbose stack Error: command failed
71 verbose stack at ChildProcess. (/snap/node/8691/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/promise-spawn/lib/index.js:53:27)
71 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:517:28)
71 verbose stack at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1098:16)
71 verbose stack at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:303:5)
72 verbose pkgid [email protected]
73 verbose cwd /home/.../PycharmProjects/.../backend
74 verbose Linux 6.5.0-35-generic
75 verbose node v18.20.3
76 verbose npm v10.7.0
77 error code 1
78 error path /home/.../PycharmProjects/.../backend/node_modules/supabase
79 error command failed
80 error command sh -c node scripts/postinstall.js
81 verbose exit 1
82 verbose code 1

[soedirgo]

Hi, are you still experiencing this issue?

Also, the issue seems to come from installing supabase rather than @supabase/supabase-js (the latter has no postinstall script), so moving the issue there.

[xmliszt]

I'm experiencing the same issue with supabase cli package in dev dependencies. Search online didn't manage to find any useful solutions. But one finding I have is if I do sudo nom install --save-dev supabase@latest it will install successfully. But don't want to use sudo because it is not safe. But this does suggest it might be something related to postinstall.js script is trying to accessing some files that need a higher privilege?