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error on npm install after cloning repo

See original GitHub issue

i cloned this repo & did npm install (was hoping to try out some of the examples). got this error:

marina@pumpkin:~/dev/regl-gpu-lines$ npm install
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path /home/marina/dev/regl-gpu-lines/node_modules/gl
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c prebuild-install || node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! (node:13786) [DEP0150] DeprecationWarning: Setting process.config is deprecated. In the future the property will be read-only.
npm ERR! (Use `node --trace-deprecation ...` to show where the warning was created)
npm ERR! Package xi was not found in the pkg-config search path.
npm ERR! Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xi.pc'
npm ERR! to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
npm ERR! No package 'xi' found
npm ERR! gyp: Call to 'pkg-config --libs-only-L --libs-only-other x11 xi xext' returned exit status 1 while in angle/src/angle.gyp. while loading dependencies of binding.gyp while trying to load binding.gyp
npm ERR! gyp ERR! configure error 
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/home/marina/dev/regl-gpu-lines/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:351:16)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:365:28)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:290:12)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! System Linux 5.4.0-90-generic
npm ERR! gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/home/marina/dev/regl-gpu-lines/node_modules/.bin/node-gyp" "rebuild"
npm ERR! gyp ERR! cwd /home/marina/dev/regl-gpu-lines/node_modules/gl
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node -v v16.1.0
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v7.1.2
npm ERR! gyp ERR! not ok

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/marina/.npm/_logs/2021-11-16T22_39_07_600Z-debug.log

my node version is 16.1.0 and my npm version is 7.12.1

any idea what might be going on?

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Created 2 years ago
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mk30commented, Nov 17, 2021

turns out i can’t install gl in a blank project either. very strange.

i removed gl from the package.json and was able to install properly after that.

and running npm start multiple successfully launched the example.

thanks and good luck with the part you’re working on now!

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rreussercommented, Nov 17, 2021

If it’s alright, I’ll close this issue since it’s not an issue with this project itself, but please feel free to follow up with headless-gl details if you figure it out or with other issues—whether for bugs, features, or just clarification. 🙇