`npm install` fails on setting up starter project from official nextjs course

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Japanese common catfishOP

2024-04-04T04:42:42.000Z

So yea, I'm following the nextjs official course from [here](https://nextjs.org/learn). When I try to set up the starter code using this command (

npx create-next-app@latest nextjs-dashboard --use-npm --example "https://github.com/vercel/next-learn/tree/main/dashboard/starter-example"

) provided in the tutorial, I get this error in my terminal;

Downloading files from repo https://github.com/vercel/next-learn/tree/main/dashboard/starter-example. This might take a moment.

Installing packages. This might take a couple of minutes.

npm ERR! code 7
npm ERR! path /mnt/bulk_disk/development/personal_projects/learning-nextjs/nextjs-dashboard/node_modules/bcrypt
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/victor/.npm/_logs/2024-04-04T04_33_28_467Z-debug-0.log

Aborting installation.
  npm install has failed.

Any help is highly appreciated.

Answered by Ray

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential python
make sure you have these packages installed on your system
https://github.com/kelektiv/node.bcrypt.js/wiki/Installation-Instructions#ubuntu-and-derivatives---elementary-linux-mint-etc

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