Orbit-db: Can't add orbit-db to yarn project

[waotzi]

when trying to add orbit-db with yarn i get these errors:

info [email protected]: The platform "linux" is incompatible with this module.
info "[email protected]" is an optional dependency and failed compatibility check. Excluding it from installation.
error [email protected]: The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version "^6.x.x".
error Found incompatible module
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/add for documentation about this command.

[haadcode]

Which version of Node.js are you on?

[waotzi]

i'm using v8.5.0

[waotzi]

Is anyone able to replicate the error?

mkdir test
cd test
npm init -y
yarn add orbit-db

[haadcode]

Got it. I don't use Yarn myself and have never come across this problem, but I believe this is the line causing it.

There's a new version of ipfs-log coming out soon (v4.0.0) which should fix this.

[millette]

Meanwhile, this should work:

yarn --ignore-engines add orbit-db

EDIT: Oh, but ipfs-log v3.0.0 was indeed released a month ago.

[haadcode]

@millette thanks for sharing the workaround!

Indeed 3.0 was released, meant 4.0 :) Fixed it in my comment.

[haadcode]

This should be fixed now in v0.18.0. I'm able to run yarn add orbit-db without errors.

Closing as fixed, but if anyone still has the problem, please re-open the issue and let us know!

Thank you everyone for helping out on this one! ❤️