`node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build` failed during MeanJS installation on OSX

Question

I just bought myself a mac book after using Windows for a long time.

I was trying to work on a MeanJS project that I had been working on. Doing npm install

Answer 1

I recently had this error on a fresh OSX install of Node using homebrew. Brew installed the latest at the time 13.8.0.

I downgraded the last "stable" release of node.

sudo npm install -g n  ## Installs Node Version Switcher
sudo n stable          ## To switch to latest stable version

Then the rest of my npm installs finished and passed the dreaded gprc errors!