Errors when installing

[loucapo]

Hello, I am new to immich and trying to install using your script but it keeps failing with an error code that looks like below. any ideas if there is a way to get around it?

npm error code 1 npm error path /private/tmp/immich-BD70EFE0-A94B-4FB7-A398-CBED34229E9F/server/node_modules/sharp npm error command failed npm error command sh -c node install/check npm error sharp: Detected SHARP_FORCE_GLOBAL_LIBVIPS, skipping search for globally-installed libvips npm error sharp: Detected globally-installed libvips v npm error sharp: Attempting to build from source via node-gyp npm error sharp: Found node-addon-api 8.3.0 npm error sharp: Found node-gyp 11.0.0 npm error sharp: See https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/install#building-from-source npm error gyp info it worked if it ends with ok npm error gyp info using [email protected] npm error gyp info using [email protected] | darwin | x64 npm error gyp info chdir src npm error gyp info find Python using Python version 3.13.1 found at "/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.13"

[loucapo]

anyone have any info about this? i've tried 3x.

[jzaor]

Can you try to manually reinstall xcode-select?
I had to use this:
sudo rm -rf $(xcode-select --print-path)
and this:
xcode-select --install

My installation was successful afterward.

[loucapo]

i ended up trying a separate machine and it worked fine there. maybe the other was just too old.

i just cant figure out how to mount a network drive in macos as an external library in immich. any ideas?

[jzaor]

I do not know if it is the best practice. I am using this approach:

Firstly I created new folder in /Users/Shared
Named it like "Photos". I changed its owner to the "immich" user and group

Next I edited the "start.sh" file in "/opt/services/immich/app" and add mounting command in it.
I placed the following commands before the commands which starts the Immich process.

cd /Users/Shared
mount_smbfs //immich:[your_password_to_NAS_share]@[your_NAS_folder] ./Photos

Finally I was adding the external library to the Immich app as described here:
https://immich.app/docs/guides/external-library

External library is added with path "/Users/Shared/Photos"