[devmor]

I tried to run your NPX commands from the examples on a fresh WSL install of Ubuntu 20.04, but if you don't have build tools installed, they both just silently fail.

I only realized what was happening after trying to go the other route and use it in a package, where I then noticed the NPM install will give a node-gyp error about make missing.

[pmarreck]

I'm on NixOS, where you have to explicitly state dependencies (which is a good thing, except when... this happens)

Besides make (which I can quickly set up a project environment to make available for), what other deps do you think it uses but doesn't declare or state? ;)

[devmor]

The other one I noticed is pip! A lot of the script fails without pip, and it takes until after the fairly long downloads finish to let you know it was needed.

[pmarreck]

so it needs make/gcc, python AND node available... what versions, I wonder?

[devmor]

I successfully used the latest version of node LTS (via NVM) and the latest versions of python-pip3 and build essentials from the Canonical apt repo, if that helps.