NPM PYTHON ERR (Installation)

Sorry if I have put this in the wrong forum section but I am trying to install brain.js for some testing that I want to do. Every time I try to install something related to this I get an error that almost exactly replicates this one. I have tried a lot and have not changed the error one bit.

Primary Error:

npm install brain.js
npm WARN deprecated @npmcli/move-file@2.0.1: This functionality has been moved to @npmcli/fs
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path /home/runner/RockPaperScissors-AI-Test/node_modules/gl
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c -- prebuild-install || node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! prebuild-install warn install No prebuilt binaries found (target=18.12.1 runtime=node arch=x64 libc= platform=linux)
npm ERR! gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
npm ERR! gyp info using node-gyp@9.3.1
npm ERR! gyp info using node@18.12.1 | linux | x64
npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python 
npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python Python is not set from command line or npm configuration
npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python Python is not set from environment variable PYTHON
npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python checking if "python3" can be used
npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python - "python3" is not in PATH or produced an error
npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python checking if "python" can be used
npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python - "python" is not in PATH or produced an error
npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python 
npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python **********************************************************
npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python You need to install the latest version of Python.
npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python Node-gyp should be able to find and use Python. If not,
npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python you can try one of the following options:
npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python - Use the switch --python="/path/to/pythonexecutable"
npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python   (accepted by both node-gyp and npm)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python - Set the environment variable PYTHON
npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python - Set the npm configuration variable python:
npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python   npm config set python "/path/to/pythonexecutable"
npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python For more information consult the documentation at:
npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp#installation
npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python **********************************************************
npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python 
npm ERR! gyp ERR! configure error 
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack Error: Could not find any Python installation to use
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at PythonFinder.fail (/home/runner/RockPaperScissors-AI-Test/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/find-python.js:330:47)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at PythonFinder.runChecks (/home/runner/RockPaperScissors-AI-Test/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/find-python.js:159:21)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at PythonFinder.<anonymous> (/home/runner/RockPaperScissors-AI-Test/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/find-python.js:202:16)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at PythonFinder.execFileCallback (/home/runner/RockPaperScissors-AI-Test/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/find-python.js:294:16)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at exithandler (node:child_process:420:5)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.errorhandler (node:child_process:432:5)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:513:28)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:289:12)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:476:16)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! System Linux 5.15.0-1029-gcp
npm ERR! gyp ERR! command "/nix/store/dj805sw07vvpbxx39c8g67x8qddg0ikw-nodejs-18.12.1/bin/node" "/home/runner/RockPaperScissors-AI-Test/node_modules/.bin/node-gyp" "rebuild"
npm ERR! gyp ERR! cwd /home/runner/RockPaperScissors-AI-Test/node_modules/gl
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node -v v18.12.1
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v9.3.1
npm ERR! gyp ERR! not ok

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/runner/.npm/_logs/2023-03-01T00_50_03_148Z-debug-0.log

It looks as if you don’t have python set up to run on the repl, could you share the replit.nix and .replit files? And, just out of curiosity… Why are you trying to run python through npm? There is already a python template on replit.

They aren’t using Python directly. A dependency is using python to build a package


Add Python via Nix: in shell:

sed -i 's/];/  pkgs.python311\n  &/' replit.nix