Installation problems on RedHatEnt6

[leemm]

Hi,

Got a bit of a weird problem which I can't pin down. I'm trying to set up sharp on Red Hat Enterprise 6 but can't get node to start the app. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

> node app.js 

module.js:356
  Module._extensions[extension](this, filename);
                               ^
Error: libvips.so.38: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
    at require (module.js:380:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/var/www/testapp/node_modules/sharp/index.js:5:13)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)

The strange thing is libvips.so.38 is exactly where I would expect it to be, /usr/local/lib.

libvips was compiled from source.
A few things I've checked.

ls -la
total 52380
drwxr-xr-x.  5 root root     4096 Aug 15 17:24 .
drwxr-xr-x. 12 root root     4096 Aug 13 12:07 ..
drwxr-xr-x.  3 root root     4096 Aug 15 17:24 gio
drwxr-xr-x.  3 root root     4096 Aug 15 17:24 glib-2.0
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root     1080 Aug 15 17:24 libgio-2.0.la
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       22 Aug 15 17:24 libgio-2.0.so -> libgio-2.0.so.0.4102.0
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       22 Aug 15 17:24 libgio-2.0.so.0 -> libgio-2.0.so.0.4102.0
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root  6132519 Aug 15 17:24 libgio-2.0.so.0.4102.0
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root      956 Aug 15 17:24 libglib-2.0.la
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       23 Aug 15 17:24 libglib-2.0.so -> libglib-2.0.so.0.4102.0
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       23 Aug 15 17:24 libglib-2.0.so.0 -> libglib-2.0.so.0.4102.0
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root  3740140 Aug 15 17:24 libglib-2.0.so.0.4102.0
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root     1009 Aug 15 17:24 libgmodule-2.0.la
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       26 Aug 15 17:24 libgmodule-2.0.so -> libgmodule-2.0.so.0.4102.0
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       26 Aug 15 17:24 libgmodule-2.0.so.0 -> libgmodule-2.0.so.0.4102.0
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root    39211 Aug 15 17:24 libgmodule-2.0.so.0.4102.0
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root     1010 Aug 15 17:24 libgobject-2.0.la
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       26 Aug 15 17:24 libgobject-2.0.so -> libgobject-2.0.so.0.4102.0
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       26 Aug 15 17:24 libgobject-2.0.so.0 -> libgobject-2.0.so.0.4102.0
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root  1205231 Aug 15 17:24 libgobject-2.0.so.0.4102.0
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root     1004 Aug 15 17:24 libgthread-2.0.la
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       26 Aug 15 17:24 libgthread-2.0.so -> libgthread-2.0.so.0.4102.0
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       26 Aug 15 17:24 libgthread-2.0.so.0 -> libgthread-2.0.so.0.4102.0
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root     8977 Aug 15 17:24 libgthread-2.0.so.0.4102.0
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 27535512 Aug 15 17:01 libvips.a
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root  2522104 Aug 15 17:01 libvipsCC.a
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root     1071 Aug 15 17:01 libvipsCC.la
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       19 Aug 15 17:01 libvipsCC.so -> libvipsCC.so.38.0.3
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       19 Aug 15 17:01 libvipsCC.so.38 -> libvipsCC.so.38.0.3
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root  1034249 Aug 15 17:01 libvipsCC.so.38.0.3
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root     1031 Aug 15 17:01 libvips.la
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       17 Aug 15 17:01 libvips.so -> libvips.so.38.0.3
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       17 Aug 15 17:01 libvips.so.38 -> libvips.so.38.0.3
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root 11349279 Aug 15 17:01 libvips.so.38.0.3
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root     4096 Aug 15 17:24 pkgconfig

echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin:/root/bin:/usr/local/lib/

echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig

pkg-config --cflags vips
-pthread -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/libpng12

pkg-config --libs vips
-pthread -Wl,--export-dynamic -L/usr/local/lib -lvips -lz -lm -lstdc++ -lxml2 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lpng12 -lglib-2.0  

[lovell]

Hi @leemmccormick, this looks like the Redhat problem where /usr/local/lib is not included in the default list of paths for ldconfig.

A comment in the bug report suggests running the following to fix this.

echo /usr/local/lib > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/local.conf
/sbin/ldconfig

I should update the README to include information for installing libvips on RHEL-based distros.

[leemm]

Perfect, that's probably the only area I didn't investigate. Thanks for your help.

I agree, updating the README might be an idea. I think if I didn't have some sysadmin experience it may be difficult for others to install on anything other than Debian based distros - just a comment, not a criticism ;)

Thanks again for your help, and for the incredibly useful module.

[lovell]

Adding --prefix=/usr when running configure should also prevent this problem.

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-debug=no ...

[xShirase]

Adding --prefix=/usr when running configure should also prevent this problem.

It doesn't here : Amazon Linux AMI

[lovell]

Hi @xShirase, which version of Amazon Linux are you using?

The preinstall.sh script to install libvips uses --prefix=/usr but this is only tested with the latest 2014.09 release of the Amazon Linux AMI. Does this script work for you?

[xShirase]

Actually, I used the old-school ./configure --prefix = /usr,
then make && make install
I had no idea there was a preinstall script, which might have saved me some time :) I'm on the latest AMI.

In any case, the ldconfig trick worked.

Also, I must mention that installing other stuff, like Node.js with the prefix option works :)

[lovell]

@xShirase glad to hear you got it working. If you have any problems with the preinstall.sh script in the future feel free to create a new issue with details - Pull Requests with fixes also accepted!

[XBDRX]

Hi

I'm having what looks like a similar issue to the above and not sure what I'm doing wrong. Here are the steps I've taken (all from my ec2-user path).

1> $ sudo yum update
2> reboot instance from EC2 dashboard
3> $ sudo curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lovell/sharp/master/preinstall.sh | sudo bash -
4> $ npm install sharp
5> $ node server.js

[server.js located in ec2-user]
console.log ( "<<< START >>>" );

var http = require('http');
console.log ( "http = " + http );

var https = require('https');
console.log ( "https = " + https );

var sharp = require('sharp');
console.log ( "sharp = " + sharp );

I can see from the output that it found 'http' and 'https' ok, but I get the following error trying to require 'sharp'

module.js:356
Module._extensions[extension](this, filename);
^
Error: libvips.so.37: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at Object. (/home/ec2-user/node_modules/sharp/index.js:11:13)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at Object. (/home/ec2-user/server.js:8:13)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)

I'm new to EC2 and Node so no doubt I'm just missing something fairly simple. Any suggestions?

[lovell]

Hi @bedrocktv please can you open a new issue with the output from running steps 3 and 4.