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Error: spawn sh ENOENT.md

Leaving this gist in the hopes that this helps someone some day.

I was using a docker image with Alpine linux. In this docker container I installed a specific version of node via several methods (nodenv, asdf, etc.) and each time I had to add the gcompat package so I could run glibc applications.

When I tried to install many npm packages such as yarn and corejs and others I would get the error:

Error: spawn sh ENOENT

I belive I finally realized that Error: spawn sh ENOENT is happening since npm is trying to launch sh and there is some incompatibility with a glibc app running with gcompat trying to launch a non-glibc app like sh

All my workarounds could not get past this and I abandoned alpine linux for this reason.

I do hope this "Wisdom of the Ancients" helps someone someday. I hope to be better than denvercoder9. https://xkcd.com/979/

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