DAT fails to build on fresh ubuntu 24 on azure

[tobiasnteireho]

Attempting to run npm run deploy yields following error

npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path /home/a2j/a2jdat/node_modules/muhammara
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c -- node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build ${EXTRA_NODE_PRE_GYP_FLAGS:-""}
npm ERR! make: Entering directory '/home/a2j/a2jdat/node_modules/muhammara/build'
npm ERR!   CXX(target) Release/obj.target/pdfwriter/src/deps/PDFWriter/AbstractContentContext.o
npm ERR! make: Leaving directory '/home/a2j/a2jdat/node_modules/muhammara/build'
npm ERR! Failed to execute '/home/a2j/.nvm/versions/node/v16.20.2/bin/node /home/a2j/.nvm/versions/node/v16.20.2/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/run-script/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js build --fallback-to-build --module=/home/a2j/a2jdat/node_modules/muhammara/binding/muhammara.node --module_name=muhammara --module_path=/home/a2j/a2jdat/node_modules/muhammara/binding --napi_version=8 --node_abi_napi=napi --napi_build_version=0 --node_napi_label=node-v93' (1)
npm ERR! node-pre-gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
npm ERR! node-pre-gyp info using node-pre-gyp@0.17.0
npm ERR! node-pre-gyp info using node@16.20.2 | linux | x64
npm ERR! node-pre-gyp WARN Using request for node-pre-gyp https download 
npm ERR! node-pre-gyp info check checked for "/home/a2j/a2jdat/node_modules/muhammara/binding/muhammara.node" (not found)

This is unresolvable with previous workarounds such as deleting package-lock.json re-cloning repo or manually installing muhammara. Same repo builds in other environments