Edex-ui: npm errors after running`makepkg` for edex-ui from AUR

[jakewilliami]

Technical information

Using version:

• [ ] master (running from GitHub-published source code, currently v3.0.0-pre)
• [x] latest (latest release, currently v2.2.2)
• [ ] vX.X.X (specify other version)

Running on:

• [x] Linux
• [ ] Windows
• [ ] macOS

How comfortable you are with your system and/or IT in general:

• [ ] I'm kind of lost, honestly
• [x] I know what's up, I could help you run some commands or checks
• [ ] My machine is fully under my control, tell me what you need
• [ ] I attended Defcon last year

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Problem

I am downloading edex-ui from the AUR. I download the .tar.gz and extract it, cd edex-ui, and run makepkg -si. The latter command gets most of the way through but then throws a bunch of errors regarding npm. Here is the log file, but I don't know what to make of it sorry!

Close this issue if you think this is a shell or client issue, not a bug with edex-ui.

[GitSquared]

Is that the full log? Do you have rsync installed?

[jakewilliami]

I do beleive it is the full log. When I run makepkg and it fails, it tells me that the log can be found at /home/jakeireland/.npm/_logs/2020-01-05T10_41_48_458Z-debug.log, so that log I put on pastebin is just a copy of that file. There is also a file named edex-ui-2.2.2-1-x86_64-build.log in the edex-ui directory, whose contents I have put here. Are these the correct logs to be looking at?

I do have rsync installed.

EDIT: Here is the full output from running makepkg -si.

[GitSquared]

Thanks, the full output contains more info.
eDEX v2 can't be built on node 10+, you should try with node 8.

You might be blocked by #664 later on in the make process, though. You'll have to either wait until this is sorted out or try a prebuilt AppImage.

[jakewilliami]

Thanks for this.

I managed this by installing Node Version Manager (nvm):

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.34.0/install.sh | bash; \
source ${HOME}/.bashrc; \
nvm install 8; \
nvm use 8