installation failure (Cannot find module 'psl')

[bbarker]

Full log at https://gist.github.com/bbarker/dc27562e3919883b09982d31fe11dbad

$ npm install purescript --save-dev
npm WARN deprecated request@2.88.2: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142

> purescript@0.13.6 postinstall /wd/node_modules/purescript
> install-purescript --purs-ver=0.13.6

internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:797
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'psl'
Require stack:
- /wd/node_modules/tough-cookie/lib/pubsuffix-psl.js
- /wd/node_modules/tough-cookie/lib/cookie.js
- /wd/node_modules/request/lib/cookies.js
- /wd/node_modules/request/index.js
- /wd/node_modules/purescript-installer/dl-tar/index.js
- /wd/node_modules/purescript-installer/download-purescript-source/index.js
- /wd/node_modules/purescript-installer/build-purescript/index.js
- /wd/node_modules/purescript-installer/download-or-build-purescript/index.js
- /wd/node_modules/purescript-installer/install-purescript/index.js
- /wd/node_modules/purescript-installer/index.js
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:794:15)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:687:27)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:849:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:74:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/wd/node_modules/tough-cookie/lib/pubsuffix-psl.js:32:11)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:956:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:973:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:812:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:724:14)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:849:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:74:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/wd/node_modules/tough-cookie/lib/cookie.js:35:17)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:956:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:973:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:812:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:724:14) {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  requireStack: [
    '/wd/node_modules/tough-cookie/lib/pubsuffix-psl.js',
    '/wd/node_modules/tough-cookie/lib/cookie.js',
    '/wd/node_modules/request/lib/cookies.js',
    '/wd/node_modules/request/index.js',
    '/wd/node_modules/purescript-installer/dl-tar/index.js',
    '/wd/node_modules/purescript-installer/download-purescript-source/index.js',
    '/wd/node_modules/purescript-installer/build-purescript/index.js',
    '/wd/node_modules/purescript-installer/download-or-build-purescript/index.js',
    '/wd/node_modules/purescript-installer/install-purescript/index.js',
    '/wd/node_modules/purescript-installer/index.js'
  ]
}
npm WARN purescript-metajelo@ No repository field.

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! purescript@0.13.6 postinstall: `install-purescript --purs-ver=0.13.6`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the purescript@0.13.6 post
[2020-03-02T16_53_17_120Z-debug.log](https://github.com/purescript/npm-installer/files/4276715/2020-03-02T16_53_17_120Z-debug.log)
[2020-03-02T16_53_17_120Z-debug.log](https://github.com/purescript/npm-installer/files/4276719/2020-03-02T16_53_17_120Z-debug.log)

install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/brandon/.npm/_logs/2020-03-02T16_53_17_120Z-debug.log

$ node --version
v12.13.0

Full container specification at https://github.com/bbarker/purescript-hodgepodge

[hdgarrood]

Thanks for the report. It looks like tough-cookie, a dependency of request, is expecting psl to be installed, but for some reason it isn't. I think, since request is deprecated, the best approach is to just drop the request dependency in favour of something else, like perhaps node-fetch.

[hdgarrood]

I just tried to reproduce this on your Docker container and I wasn't able to. Were you running this in a directory with a package.json file? I think that might be affecting this.

[bbarker]

Yes, there was very likely a package.json involved, though at this point I'm not sure I can recall which one (if it matters).