I am unable to install this package

[drogars]

I originally discovered this issue when attempting to set up Hubot with an IRC adapter on Windows 10. Hubot isn't really officially supported on Windows 10, so I chalked up the problem to the platform. So I switched to Ubuntu 16. When I get to this stage in the Hubot instructions: yo hubot, it starts the process of getting everything needed for Hubot, apparently that includes this package. When it attempts to install this package you get the following error:

iconv.target.mk:109: recipe for target 'Release/obj.target/iconv/src/binding.o' failed
make: *** [Release/obj.target/iconv/src/binding.o] Error 1
make: Leaving directory '/home/jadzia/jadzia/node_modules/iconv/build'
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: make failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:276:23)
gyp ERR! stack at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:204:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.4.0-21-generic
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /home/jadzia/jadzia/node_modules/iconv
gyp ERR! node -v v6.4.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.4.0
gyp ERR! not ok
npm WARN install:[email protected] [email protected] install: node-gyp rebuild
npm WARN install:[email protected] Exit status 1

[email protected] install /home/jadzia/jadzia/node_modules/node-icu-charset-detector
node-gyp rebuild

make: Entering directory '/home/jadzia/jadzia/node_modules/node-icu-charset-detector/build'
CXX(target) Release/obj.target/node-icu-charset-detector/node-icu-charset-detector.o
../node-icu-charset-detector.cpp:5:28: fatal error: unicode/ucsdet.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
node-icu-charset-detector.target.mk:90: recipe for target 'Release/obj.target/node-icu-charset-detector/node-icu-charset-detector.o' failed
make: *** [Release/obj.target/node-icu-charset-detector/node-icu-charset-detector.o] Error 1
make: Leaving directory '/home/jadzia/jadzia/node_modules/node-icu-charset-detector/build'
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: make failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:276:23)
gyp ERR! stack at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:204:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.4.0-21-generic
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /home/jadzia/jadzia/node_modules/node-icu-charset-detector
gyp ERR! node -v v6.4.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.4.0
gyp ERR! not ok
npm WARN install:[email protected] [email protected] install: node-gyp rebuild
npm WARN install:[email protected] Exit status 1
[email protected] /home/jadzia/jadzia

[drogars]

Then I assumed that the problem was with the IRC adapter. Since it isn't officially support, I switched to the shell adapter and get the same error. Then, I simply tried to install this package directly:

sudo npm install node-icu-charset-detector
and I get this series of errors:
iconv.target.mk:109: recipe for target 'Release/obj.target/iconv/src/binding.o' failed
make: *** [Release/obj.target/iconv/src/binding.o] Error 1
make: Leaving directory '/home/jadzia/jadzia/node_modules/iconv/build'
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: make failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:276:23)
gyp ERR! stack at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:204:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.4.0-21-generic
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /home/jadzia/jadzia/node_modules/iconv
gyp ERR! node -v v6.4.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.4.0
gyp ERR! not ok
npm WARN install:[email protected] [email protected] install: node-gyp rebuild
npm WARN install:[email protected] Exit status 1

[email protected] install /home/jadzia/jadzia/node_modules/irc/node_modules/node-icu-charset-detector
node-gyp rebuild

make: Entering directory '/home/jadzia/jadzia/node_modules/irc/node_modules/node-icu-charset-detector/build'
CXX(target) Release/obj.target/node-icu-charset-detector/node-icu-charset-detector.o
../node-icu-charset-detector.cpp:5:28: fatal error: unicode/ucsdet.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
node-icu-charset-detector.target.mk:90: recipe for target 'Release/obj.target/node-icu-charset-detector/node-icu-charset-detector.o' failed
make: *** [Release/obj.target/node-icu-charset-detector/node-icu-charset-detector.o] Error 1
make: Leaving directory '/home/jadzia/jadzia/node_modules/irc/node_modules/node-icu-charset-detector/build'
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: make failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:276:23)
gyp ERR! stack at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:204:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.4.0-21-generic
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /home/jadzia/jadzia/node_modules/irc/node_modules/node-icu-charset-detector
gyp ERR! node -v v6.4.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.4.0
gyp ERR! not ok
npm WARN install:[email protected] [email protected] install: node-gyp rebuild
npm WARN install:[email protected] Exit status 1

[email protected] install /home/jadzia/jadzia/node_modules/node-icu-charset-detector
node-gyp rebuild

make: Entering directory '/home/jadzia/jadzia/node_modules/node-icu-charset-detector/build'
CXX(target) Release/obj.target/node-icu-charset-detector/node-icu-charset-detector.o
../node-icu-charset-detector.cpp:7:28: fatal error: unicode/ucsdet.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
node-icu-charset-detector.target.mk:92: recipe for target 'Release/obj.target/node-icu-charset-detector/node-icu-charset-detector.o' failed
make: *** [Release/obj.target/node-icu-charset-detector/node-icu-charset-detector.o] Error 1
make: Leaving directory '/home/jadzia/jadzia/node_modules/node-icu-charset-detector/build'
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: make failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:276:23)
gyp ERR! stack at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:204:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.4.0-21-generic
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /home/jadzia/jadzia/node_modules/node-icu-charset-detector
gyp ERR! node -v v6.4.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.4.0
gyp ERR! not ok
npm ERR! Linux 4.4.0-21-generic
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "node-icu-charset-detector"
npm ERR! node v6.4.0
npm ERR! npm v3.10.6
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! [email protected] install: node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script 'node-gyp rebuild'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the node-icu-charset-detector package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR! npm bugs node-icu-charset-detector
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls node-icu-charset-detector
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! /home/jadzia/jadzia/npm-debug.log

I have attached the npm-debug.log in case it's helpful. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
npm-debug.txt

[demiters]

Having the same problem!

[aolite]

I partially solve it using the following steps:

1. removing the folder of node-gyp: rm -R /home/userName/.node-gyp
   2.- Installing manually the library: node install -g node-gyp

Hopes help...

[wbaleson]

From the instructions on the first page, install this first and it should install.

apt-get install libicu-dev

[nicholatian]

For those running CentOS, installing libicu-devel via yum and removing the ~/.node-gyp directory did the trick.