Hi, I have installed n8n and sqlite3 via npm: npm install -g n8n sqlite3 But I keep getting this error. I also did npm install sqlite3 --save and it didnt work either. Any help appreciated! Thanks!

Hi, thanks but I get the same error with that. I noticed that npm install -g n8n installed n8n to: ~/.npm-global/n8n and sudo install -g n8n installed it to /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n

@timtestpat i think you might have not ran that command where n8n is installed, and this problem occurs only when the sqlite3 build was done in a different folder, so i think if you can than give it another try and make sure you run the command where n8n is installed: cd ~/.npm-global/lib/node_modu…

Thanks Anshul. I think I have some issues with npm (the one being from my distro) and paths. I will investigate and report back

@timtestpat i think you should remove everything, and once that is done, install n8n with simple npm install -g n8n and that is it remove that sqlite3 thing and everything should be fine. [image] timtestpat: npm install -g n8n sqlite3

Hi again. I solved it by removing nodejs and npm as installed by my package manager, and used the following I installed nvm: curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.7/install.sh | bash nvm install node nvm alias default node npm install -g n8n and it worked! Thank you for …

SQLite package has not been found installed. Try to install it: npm install sqlite3 --save

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Anshul_Namdev April 12, 2026, 4:14pm 2

Hi @timtestpat Welcome!
For now lets try the basic fix, which will be for now is to rebuild the sqlite3 bindings, so for that run this command inside your n8n directory:
cd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n && npm rebuild sqlite3

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SQLite package has not been found installed. Try to install it: npm install sqlite3 --save

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