Installation issue, url is blocked by our proxy.

[WentingTan]

Issue or Feature

We are working on upgrading a new version of galata (v4.2.2) and "canvas" is one of the dependencies. We have an issue here: ‘node-canvas' install script tries to download the package from "{https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas/releases/..."}, which is a url blocked by our company’s proxy (we literally block all third party urls). Canvas is available on our artifact, don't know why the install script doesn't pull the package from artifact. We are thinking to pre-install canvas manually in our docker container. However, we tried a few ways:

• “npm install --build-from-source” (from source code)

and

• “npm install package from tar.gz” (from tar.gz file)

both failed and it shows again it tries to download the pkg from the url (which is blocked by our proxy).

Error message:

node-pre-gyp ERR! install request to https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas/releases/download/v2.9.1/canvas-v2.9.1-node-v72-linux-glibc-x64.tar.gz failed, reason: connect ECONNREFUSED 140.82.112.3:443 
node-pre-gyp WARN Pre-built binaries not installable for [email protected] and [email protected] (node-v72 ABI, glibc) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp) 
node-pre-gyp WARN Hit error request to https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas/releases/download/v2.9.1/canvas-v2.9.1-node-v72-linux-glibc-x64.tar.gz failed, reason: connect ECONNREFUSED 140.82.112.3:443 

Is there a way to pre install canvas and avoid download from that git url?

[gulatirajat]

Similar scenario and similar issue at my end. The build errors out while trying to connect to and download from:
https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas/releases/download/v2.9.1/canvas-v2.9.1-node-v83-linux-glibc-x64.tar.gz

I have tried providing proxy params to docker build using --build-args, however that does not works due to restrictions on our enterprise jenkins.

I have tried these steps as well, however that has not helped:
https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas/wiki/Installation%3A-Ubuntu-and-other-Debian-based-systems

Container details:
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="18.04.6 LTS (Bionic Beaver)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS"
VERSION_ID="18.04"
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
VERSION_CODENAME=bionic
UBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic

node -v
v14.19.1
npm -v
6.14.16

Is there something I am missing in trying to follow the steps here:
https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas/wiki/Installation%3A-Ubuntu-and-other-Debian-based-systems

[exige81]

If there is a mirror that you can access, you can tell node-pre-gyp to use --canvas_binary_host_mirror See #1771