pa11y fails to install

[jahn-junior]

make pa11y-install fails with the following error:

user@host:~/sphinx-docs-starter-pack/docs$ make pa11y
Installing "pa11y" from npm...

npm error code 1
npm error path /home/ecoldi/Projects/DOCPR/sphinx-docs-starter-pack/docs/.sphinx/node_modules/puppeteer
npm error command failed
npm error command sh -c node install.mjs
npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/ecoldi/.npm/_logs/2026-02-20T00_12_17_433Z-debug-0.log
make: *** [Makefile:68: pa11y-install] Error 1

[medubelko]

Can't reproduce.

$ npm --version
9.2.0
$ make clean && make pa11y-install
git clean -fx "_build"
rm -rf .sphinx/.doctrees
rm -rf .sphinx/venv
rm -rf .sphinx/node_modules/
rm -rf .sphinx/styles
rm -rf .sphinx/vale.ini
Installing "pa11y" from npm...

npm WARN EBADENGINE Unsupported engine {
npm WARN EBADENGINE   package: 'commander@14.0.3',
npm WARN EBADENGINE   required: { node: '>=20' },
npm WARN EBADENGINE   current: { node: 'v18.19.1', npm: '9.2.0' }
npm WARN EBADENGINE }
npm WARN EBADENGINE Unsupported engine {
npm WARN EBADENGINE   package: 'pa11y@9.1.0',
npm WARN EBADENGINE   required: { node: '>=20' },
npm WARN EBADENGINE   current: { node: 'v18.19.1', npm: '9.2.0' }
npm WARN EBADENGINE }

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