cannot install node 14.10.0 in macbook

[tomlou1]

% nodeenv --node=14.10.0 --prebuilt env-14.10.0-prebuilt

• Install prebuilt node (14.10.0) .
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/nodeenv", line 11, in
  load_entry_point('nodeenv==1.6.0', 'console_scripts', 'nodeenv')()
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/nodeenv-1.6.0-py2.7.egg/nodeenv.py", line 1079, in main
  create_environment(env_dir, opt)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/nodeenv-1.6.0-py2.7.egg/nodeenv.py", line 956, in create_environment
  install_node(env_dir, src_dir, opt)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/nodeenv-1.6.0-py2.7.egg/nodeenv.py", line 721, in install_node
  install_node_wrapped(env_dir, src_dir, opt)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/nodeenv-1.6.0-py2.7.egg/nodeenv.py", line 743, in install_node_wrapped
  download_node_src(node_url, src_dir, opt)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/nodeenv-1.6.0-py2.7.egg/nodeenv.py", line 570, in download_node_src
  dl_contents = io.BytesIO(urlopen(node_url).read())
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/nodeenv-1.6.0-py2.7.egg/nodeenv.py", line 606, in urlopen
  return urllib2.urlopen(req)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 154, in urlopen
  return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 435, in open
  response = meth(req, response)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 548, in http_response
  'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 473, in error
  return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
  result = func(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 556, in http_error_default
  raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
  urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

[hosier]

I am having similar issues. In my case, I found that there was no prebuilt binary for my system. Nodeenv is trying to download this file, but it does not exist: https://nodejs.org/download/release/v17.5.0/node-v17.5.0-linux-x86.tar.gz

[tutuca]

Do you have an m1 chip? it seems there's no prebuilt binary for this architecture.

[x3l51]

I have a similar issue and want to share what I tried.

The urlib 404 occurs because there's no binaries for darwin arm64 for versions lower than 16.latest I think. You can check all versions here.

You can try building node from source instead of using a prebuilt with --source -j 4, similar to the make syntax. For me this still fails on multiple ends when I try to run it.

The only thing that has helped me was running older node versions with rosetta compatibility mode. This doesn't work with nodeenv though so that's not a lot of help either.

So this is still a bit of a workaround but you can start terminal with rosetta support so everything run within it, will use the intel binaries and does not rely on arm64 binaries.

For this

• go into you applications/utilities folder
• create a duplicate of terminal
• rename it to terminalRosetta or whatever else you'd like to call it
• right click terminalRosetta
• get Info
• activate the tickbox for "Open using Rosetta"
• run terminalRosetta (double click it)

And then run your script or nodeenv directly from within terminalRosetta. I just tested this and for me it worked with nodeenv using node 12.22.12.

So as long as there are no binaries for darwin arm64 for node versions <16.* this seems to be your best bet.

[ekalinin]

This is against nodeenv 1.6.0 on Python 2.7, and both plausible causes have been addressed since:

• no prebuilt binary for darwin-arm64 on older node lines - nodeenv now retries the x64 build when the arm64 URL returns 404 (install_node_wrapped, nodeenv.py:789-793)
• macOS certificate verification failures - see nodeenv is failing under conda #269 and PR Optionally use certifi certificates #388, plus the --ignore_ssl_certs escape hatch

Closing as stale. Please open a fresh issue if node still fails to install on a current version.