Solved Work-around: Installing NodeBB on non LTS Ubuntu (17.04)

[countach]

Has anyone successfully installed NodeBB onto a non LTS version of Ubuntu? This is a Hail-Mary before I revert my 17.04 to the 16.04 LTS. Any insight will be appreciated.

[PitaJ]

It should be fine. As long as the Node.js version is correct everything should work.

[countach]

@pitaj my concern is with mongo. Some mongo packages are not supported on 17.04.
As its documented here.

[PitaJ]

The best way to find out is to try it. NodeBB should work with all newer Mongo versions but if not let us know.

[countach]

@pitaj I can confirm that mongo only supports 64-bit LTS versions of ubuntu. Some (crucial) packages like mongod are not supported on non LTS versions.

[PitaJ]

@countach just because it's not supported doesn't mean it won't work

[countach]

@pitaj Yes true, I tried installing mongo onto my 17.04. The installation was successful but some packages did not work (were not supported).