Package cairo was not found in the pkg-config search path. Node j.s install canvas issue

Question

I am having a problem installing installing the canvas module in node..It seems to be something with cairo I am getting this error...

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Answer 1

I was also facing same issue on mac so I have tried these steps & I got solution

Mac OSX Version >=10.7.5 node -v = v0.8.12

$ brew install cairo
$ pkg-config --atleast-version=1.12.2 cairo
$ echo $?

If it returns a 1 you will need to set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable so cairo.pc and fontconfig.pc can be found

$ locate cairo.pc
$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/X11/lib/pkgconfig/

Running pkg-config again ...

$ pkg-config --atleast-version=1.12.2 cairo

$ echo $?

If it returns a 0 then all is well in the hood.

$ npm install canvas