nodejs mismatch between the two install methods

[heggland]

different nodejs versions when I install with curl/npm methods.
I'm just testing on raspberry, which has nodejs version v.12.22.5.
The curl installer just straight up wouldnt work, maybe since its a raspberry I dunno.. It says one need atleast node v12 or newer.
The npm install way says node v14 is required.

curl -fsSL https://code-server.dev/install.sh | sh

curl -fsSL https://code-server.dev/install.sh | sh
Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
No standalone releases for armv7l.
Falling back to installation from npm.
Installing latest from npm.

Please install npm or yarn to install code-server!
You will need at least node v12 and a few C dependencies.
See the docs https://coder.com/docs/code-server/latest/install#yarn-npm

npm i code-server

npm WARN EBADENGINE Unsupported engine {
npm WARN EBADENGINE   package: '[email protected]',
npm WARN EBADENGINE   required: { node: '= 14' },
npm WARN EBADENGINE   current: { node: 'v12.22.5', npm: '7.5.2' }
npm WARN EBADENGINE }
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please upgrade  to version 7 or higher.  Older versions may use Math.random() in certain circumstances, which is known to be problematic.  See https://v8.dev/blog/math-random for details.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: This library will not receive further updates other than security fixes. We recommend using @grpc/grpc-js instead.
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path /home/pi/vscode/node_modules/code-server
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c bash ./postinstall.sh
npm ERR! ERROR: code-server currently requires node v14.
npm ERR! ./postinstall.sh: line 38: FORCE_NODE_VERSION: unbound variable

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2021-11-15T19_59_25_083Z-debug.log

[jsjoeio]

This is very strange indeed 🤔

The first error message is hard-coded here.

I think to get past this, you can run with the flag --ignore-engines for the npm/yarn way. And also, this should be installed globally so we recommend yarn global add code-server or npm i -g code-server.

[jsjoeio]

The v14 comes from our package.json engines field here. They should definitely be consistent though.

[im-coder-lg]

@heggland do you have Node 14? If you do, try this: sudo npm i -g [email protected]. The reason I recommend you to use the old version is this: #4422

[martadinata666]

This also happend with newer nodejs, currently testing with node16

Step 4/10 : RUN     node --version &&         npm install -g code-server@"$CODE_RELEASE"
 ---> Running in 62f111952767
v16.13.0
npm WARN EBADENGINE Unsupported engine {
npm WARN EBADENGINE   package: '[email protected]',
npm WARN EBADENGINE   required: { node: '= 14' },
npm WARN EBADENGINE   current: { node: 'v16.13.0', npm: '8.1.0' }
npm WARN EBADENGINE }
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please upgrade  to version 7 or higher.  Older versions may use Math.random() in certain circumstances, which is known to be problematic.  See https://v8.dev/blog/math-random for details.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: This library will not receive further updates other than security fixes. We recommend using @grpc/grpc-js instead.
npm notice 
npm notice New patch version of npm available! 8.1.0 -> 8.1.4
npm notice Changelog: <https://github.com/npm/cli/releases/tag/v8.1.4>
npm notice Run `npm install -g [email protected]` to update!
npm notice 
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path /usr/lib/node_modules/code-server
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c bash ./postinstall.sh
npm ERR! ERROR: code-server currently requires node v14.
npm ERR! ./postinstall.sh: line 38: FORCE_NODE_VERSION: unbound variable

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/debian/.npm/_logs/2021-11-28T11_05_50_258Z-debug.log

[im-coder-lg]

Node 14 only works as of now. Until the upstream VSCode supports it, we can't.

[javix64]

Regarding this issue... i have installed in my raspberry 4, the node v14.18.2. but is not working anyway

Should i use the version [email protected]??
upsi... i have discovered that i have node in version 14, but nodejs in version 16... i need to fix it

[jsjoeio]

upsi... i have discovered that i have node in version 14, but nodejs in version 16... i need to fix it

Ah got it. Let us know if this resolves the issue!

[javix64]

Ok. i couldn't installed via npm, no latest version and no 3.12.0 version.
So i have tried via sh script, but when i'm trying to run it it's retrieving this error:

There are many issues opened with this weird 'argon', because maybe my system is:
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Release: 11
Codename: bullseye
aarch64

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whatever finally i could installed via sh script with the flag --version 3.12.0:
curl -fsSL https://code-server.dev/install.sh | sh -s -- --version 3.12.0
so that was my weird solution... almost i can use it :)

[im-coder-lg]

Anyone thought of NVM or maybe purging the entire Node.js package from the system and reinstalling it from a tarball? I tried NVM and it seems to work on my Ubuntu Impish instance.

[martadinata666]

I just use the nodesource repo, https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/blob/master/README.md
As it like all in one so no version mismatch, as NVM is ok but sometimes forgot using it. Well just use what suit you.

[code-asher]

Closing as this does not appear to be a bug in the code-server repo.