Unable to install openmct on linux (Pop_OS! 21.04)

[Manu-pardo]

Summary

When attempting to install the last stable version of openmct, it fails and shows several warnings and errors such as EBADENGINE, deprecated or no longer maintained packages, error code 1, python2 not found, and much more.

I tried to update dependencies with npm update or npm update --force and also npx npm-check-updates -u.

Expected vs Current Behavior

It should install the dependencies and allow the user to continue running openmct with npm start once installed

Impact Check List

• Data loss or misrepresented data?
• Regression? Did this used to work or has it always been broken?
• Is there a workaround available?
• Does this impact a critical component?
• Is this just a visual bug?

Steps to Reproduce

1. clone to a folder with git clone https://github.com/nasa/openmct.git
2. go to the folder (cd openmct)
3. run command npm start
4. Ends with error code 1 without a successful installation.

Environment

• Open MCT Version: openmct@1.7.8-SNAPSHOT
• Deployment Type:
• OS: Ubuntu 21.04 (Pop_OS! 21.04) x86_64
• Browser: Mozilla Firefox 92.0
• NodeJs version: v12.21.0
• NPM version: 7.20.5
• Webpack: v5.55.1

Additional Information

2021-09-30T02_59_51_075Z-debug.log

[akhenry]

@Manu-pardo Thanks for reporting this. Based on your provided log file it actually looks as though you are building in Node 16, rather than 12 as reported? eg.

0 verbose cli [
0 verbose cli   '/home/manu/.nvm/versions/node/v16.2.0/bin/node',
0 verbose cli   '/home/manu/.nvm/versions/node/v16.2.0/bin/npm',
0 verbose cli   'install'
0 verbose cli ]

Unfortunately we do have some issues building with Node 16 right now.

Could you try building with node 12?

[Manu-pardo]

@Manu-pardo Thanks for reporting this. Based on your provided log file it actually looks as though you are building in Node 16, rather than 12 as reported? eg.

0 verbose cli [
0 verbose cli   '/home/manu/.nvm/versions/node/v16.2.0/bin/node',
0 verbose cli   '/home/manu/.nvm/versions/node/v16.2.0/bin/npm',
0 verbose cli   'install'
0 verbose cli ]

Unfortunately we do have some issues building with Node 16 right now.

Could you try building with node 12?

I changed the node version to the last LTS (14.18.0) using nvm and now I am able to install it and start it (with the typical warnings).

[akhenry]

Glad it's working.