update npm installation docs with node requirements

[mistrysiddh]

• Web Browser: Chrome
• Local OS: Android 8.1
• Remote OS: Android 8.1
• code-server --version: 3.9.0 fc6d123

I tried to install on termux using falling commands

pkg install nano yarn
yarn global add code-server

after then when I execute the command code-server or code-server --auth none and then I open url in chrome browser I get this error

this is the log of termux while running code-server

[jsjoeio]

Hmm...I wish I had an Android device to try and reproduce this.

Usually when you see this error, it means VSCode isn't done building. I see the "error VS Code exited unexpectedly with code 0". But since you already installed code-server with yarn, it should be finished 🤔

I wonder if that failed in some way. Maybe you can check the logs from after running yarn global add code-server

[jsjoeio]

There might be some helpful info here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55834349/what-is-the-path-to-yarn-error-log-files

[Playit3110]

I tried to install it code-server over codeserver.dev/install.sh and noticed a lot of old or broken dependencies. I tried to run it as well and got a simular result. The only difference is my remote OS. It is a Raspberry Pi 4 4GB

[jsjoeio]

noticed a lot of old or broken dependencies

Well that's no good!

Can you try following these steps and let me know if the result is the same?

[Playit3110]

Im not quiet sure which steps i should follow. Could you link to the issue or the comment here?

[jsjoeio]

Sorry looks like the link didn't get added! Updated the comment

[Playit3110]

I already tried that too but i got the error global is not a file when i executed yarn global ...

[jsjoeio]

Hmm..strange. Can you please post the logs or a screenshot so I can see if I can reproduce your error?

[Playit3110]

Here is the process:

Last login: Tue Mar  2 01:04:12 2021 from 192.168.2.xxx
pi@server:~ $ sudo apt update && apt upgrade
Get:1 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster InRelease [15.0 kB]
Hit:2 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster InRelease
Hit:3 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_14.x buster InRelease
Fetched 15.0 kB in 1s (11.8 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?
pi@server:~ $ sudo apt install build-essential python git nodejs yarn
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'cmdtest' instead of 'yarn'
build-essential is already the newest version (12.6).
git is already the newest version (1:2.20.1-2+deb10u3).
python is already the newest version (2.7.16-1).
nodejs is already the newest version (14.16.0-1nodesource1).
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libyaml-0-2 python-cliapp python-markdown python-pygments
  python-ttystatus python-yaml
Suggested packages:
  python-markdown-doc python-pygments-doc ttf-bitstream-vera
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  cmdtest libyaml-0-2 python-cliapp python-markdown
  python-pygments python-ttystatus python-yaml
0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 892 kB of archives.
After this operation, 4,565 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Get:1 http://ftp.agdsn.de/pub/mirrors/raspbian/raspbian buster/main armhf libyaml-0-2 armhf 0.2.1-1 [38.8 kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.agdsn.de/pub/mirrors/raspbian/raspbian buster/main armhf python-yaml armhf 3.13-2 [118 kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.agdsn.de/pub/mirrors/raspbian/raspbian buster/main armhf python-cliapp all 1.20180812.1-2 [42.2 kB]
Get:4 http://ftp.agdsn.de/pub/mirrors/raspbian/raspbian buster/main armhf python-ttystatus all 0.38-2 [15.4 kB]
Get:5 http://ftp.agdsn.de/pub/mirrors/raspbian/raspbian buster/main armhf python-markdown all 3.0.1-3 [60.6 kB]
Get:6 http://ftp.agdsn.de/pub/mirrors/raspbian/raspbian buster/main armhf cmdtest all 0.32-3 [21.9 kB]
Get:7 http://ftp.agdsn.de/pub/mirrors/raspbian/raspbian buster/main armhf python-pygments all 2.3.1+dfsg-1 [596 kB]
Fetched 892 kB in 2s (405 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package libyaml-0-2:armhf.
(Reading database ... 111866 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../0-libyaml-0-2_0.2.1-1_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking libyaml-0-2:armhf (0.2.1-1) ...
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Setting up libyaml-0-2:armhf (0.2.1-1) ...
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Setting up cmdtest (0.32-3) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.5-2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.28-10+rpi1) ...
pi@server:~ $ yarn global add code-server
00h00m00s 0/0: : ERROR: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'global'
pi@server:~ $

If you need a log, you have to help me where it is saved, because i have no idea

[jsjoeio]

Okay these might be dumb questions but bear with me.

E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?

1. Does apt upgrade need to be run with sudo?

Note, selecting 'cmdtest' instead of 'yarn'

2. Could that be an issue? Guessing it's using cmdtest which doesn't have a global command?

I found this potential fix that might work? (source):

sudo apt remove cmdtest
sudo apt remove yarn
curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yarn

[Playit3110]

Wow thanks a lot. Till now no error

[jsjoeio]

Sure thing! If it ends up working, feel free to close this issue!