I'm on NixOS, where you have to explicitly state dependencies (which is a good thing, except when... this happens)
Besides make (which I can quickly set up a project environment to make available for), what other deps do you think it uses but doesn't declare or state? ;)
The other one I noticed is pip! A lot of the script fails without pip, and it takes until after the fairly long downloads finish to let you know it was needed.
I successfully used the latest version of node LTS (via NVM) and the latest versions of python-pip3 and build essentials from the Canonical apt repo, if that helps.
Besides make (which I can quickly set up a project environment to make available for), what other deps do you think it uses but doesn't declare or state? ;)