v3.x installation failure

sbooth

I'm attempting to install 3.x by generally following the instructions here. I'm not very familiar with node and so far my attempts have not been successful.

$ uname -srvm
Linux 5.10.0-11-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.92-1 (2022-01-18) x86_64
$ node -v
v18.16.0
$ npm -v
9.5.1
$ git clone -b v3.x https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB.git nodebb
Cloning into 'nodebb'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 262323, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1722/1722), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (673/673), done.
remote: Total 262323 (delta 1139), reused 1607 (delta 1047), pack-reused 260601
Receiving objects: 100% (262323/262323), 80.10 MiB | 9.66 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (204884/204884), done.
$ cd nodebb/
$ ./nodebb setup
Dependencies outdated or not yet installed.
Installing them now...

npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: this library is no longer supported
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Multer 1.x is affected by CVE-2022-24434. This is fixed in v1.4.4-lts.1 which drops support for versions of Node.js before 6. Please upgrade to at least Node.js 6 and version 1.4.4-lts.1 of Multer. If you need support for older versions of Node.js, we are open to accepting patches that would fix the CVE on the main 1.x release line, whilst maintaining compatibility with Node.js 0.10.
Killed########⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂) ⠧ reify:path-key: http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmj
Error installing dependencies!
message: Command failed: npm install --omit=dev
stdout: null
stderr: null
/home/nodebb/nodebb/src/cli/package-install.js:138
		throw e;
		^

Error: Command failed: npm install --omit=dev
    at checkExecSyncError (node:child_process:885:11)
    at Object.execSync (node:child_process:957:15)
    at pkgInstall.installAll (/home/nodebb/nodebb/src/cli/package-install.js:129:9)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/nodebb/nodebb/src/cli/index.js:52:18)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1254:14)
    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1308:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1117:32)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:958:12)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1141:19) {
  status: 137,
  signal: null,
  output: [ null, null, null ],
  pid: 286593,
  stdout: null,
  stderr: null
}

Node.js v18.16.0

Trying again fares no better:

$ ./nodebb setup
Dependencies outdated or not yet installed.
Installing them now...

node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1078
  throw err;
  ^

Error: Cannot find module 'lodash'
Require stack:
- /home/nodebb/nodebb/src/cli/package-install.js
- /home/nodebb/nodebb/src/cli/index.js
- /home/nodebb/nodebb/nodebb
    at Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1075:15)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:920:27)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1141:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:110:18)
    at pkgInstall.updatePackageFile (/home/nodebb/nodebb/src/cli/package-install.js:36:12)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/nodebb/nodebb/src/cli/index.js:50:18)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1254:14)
    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1308:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1117:32)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:958:12) {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  requireStack: [
    '/home/nodebb/nodebb/src/cli/package-install.js',
    '/home/nodebb/nodebb/src/cli/index.js',
    '/home/nodebb/nodebb/nodebb'
  ]
}

Node.js v18.16.0

Manually using npm i didn't work either.

Any ideas on what the problem could be?

<baris>

How much memory does your server have?

sbooth

@baris said in v3.x installation failure:

How much memory does your server have?

It's a droplet with 512 MB RAM and 10 GB storage.

<baris>

Try setting up some swap or upgrade to 1gb, I think your ./nodebb setup is running out of memory. Killed usually means the process was killed by the oom killer.

sbooth

That did the trick, thanks. Will NodeBB run comfortably in 512 MB memory once installed?

<baris>

512mb is probably fine if you setup swap and don't have a lot of traffic. If you get busy you will start running into issues. Rebuilding uses quite a bit of memory as well. Just run it and monitor your memory if you run into issues you can upgrade.