Fixing canvas package install
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Mick F

Mick F @dirtyhenry

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Fixing canvas package install

Publish Date: May 14 '25
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After a clean macOS reinstall, running a web project using the canvas package (via react-pdf) failed with the following error:

Cannot find module '../build/Release/canvas.node'
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Many occurrences online suggested that fixing this only required to reinstall the package but it turns out that in my case, a Python library was missing:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'
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It turns out what fixed the error was:

pip install setuptools
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