Linux Mint 20 [Ulyana]: Installation utterly broken under NPM, all attempts to solve issues have failed, Percollate rendered unusable

[captainmalarky]

Environment

• Operating System: Linux Mint (MATE) 20 Ulyana // Ubuntu Linux 20 derivative distro
• node --version: multiple, including recommended 10.0.0
• npm --version: corresponding
• yarn --version, if using Yarn:
• percollate --version: 0.8.0

Description

The installation of Percollate via NPM on Linux Mint (MATE DE) 20 Ulyana (recommended version installed via NVM, as well as generic latest) does not work. It states that multiple dependencies have deprecated and that the installation has failed. I have reinstalled the OS, reinstalled only the recommended v10.0.0 of node.js via NVM and the issues have not been resolved.

[danburzo]

Hi @captainmalarky, thank you for the bug report. I have reproduced the installation failure using 10.0.0.

I specified 10.0.0 because it's the earliest Node.js version that supports all the JavaScript syntax used in percollate. However, in the process of upgrading the puppeteer package, I missed the fact that their installer now required Node.js 10.18.1, so in percollate@0.8.1 I have bumped the Node.js requirement accordingly.

Please note that this is not the recommended version, but the minimum version in which percollate is expected to work.

With Node.js 10.18.1 installed with nvm on Linux Mint 20, I am able to install and use percollate.

Please let me know if that fixes the issue for you!

Edit: I've also tried with Node v12.18.3 (installed with nvm install --lts, and it works. In regards to the deprecated dependencies, the warnings are inconsequential to the installation process.

[captainmalarky]

Thank you very much for your response. I will attempt to reinstall node and try the installation. I am, however, unsure of how to best manage node versions. Would you advise using NVM?

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On Sun, 23 Aug 2020, 20:51 Dan Burzo, ***@***.***> wrote: Hi @captainmalarky <https://github.com/captainmalarky>, thank you for the bug report. I have reproduced the installation failure using 10.0.0. I specified 10.0.0 because it's the earliest Node.js version that supports all the JavaScript syntax used in percollate. However, in the process of upgrading the puppeteer package, I missed the fact that their installer now required Node.js 10.18.1, so in ***@***.*** <https://github.com/danburzo/percollate/releases/tag/v0.8.1> I have bumped the Node.js requirement accordingly. Please note that this is not *the recommended* version, but the minimum version in which percollate is expected to work. With Node.js 10.18.1 installed with nvm on Linux Mint 20, I am able to install and use percollate. Please let me know if that fixes the issue for you! — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#101 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AQWZPCGCRKXS4XTVOK4J35TSCFQKRANCNFSM4QIT42YA> .

[danburzo]

Unfortunately I haven't used Node.js on Linux extensively enough to suggest the best approach, but in my tests (installing, and running, Linux Mint 20 in a VirtualBox environment) it seems that nvm works well for managing node versions, installing percollate, and using it.

One small disadvantage to nvm is, however, that you'll need to install percollate for each node version you use since it stores globally-installed packages in separate folders for each version. (Use npm bin -g to find out where the global binaries are kept).

[captainmalarky]

Node 10.18.1 didn't work, but when I removed npm and node.js with sudo apt-get and installed v10.22.0 with NVM percollate installed and worked without issue. I would recommend a clean NVM installation with Node 10.22.0 for everyone running Linux Mint Mate Ulyana. I would also recommend Percollate to everyone who wants to download web pages as PDFs. It's simply the easiest and most well-formatted way to get the job done that I have found. Thanks so much for the help.

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On Sun, 23 Aug 2020, 21:04 Dan Burzo, ***@***.***> wrote: Unfortunately I haven't used Node.js on Linux extensively enough to suggest the *best* approach, but in my tests (installing, and running, Linux Mint 20 in a VirtualBox environment) it seems that nvm works well for managing node versions, installing percollate, and using it. One small disadvantage to nvm is, however, that you'll need to install percollate for each node version you use since it stores globally-installed packages in separate folders for each version. (Use npm bin -g to find out where the global binaries are kept). — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#101 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AQWZPCDVAQL4AW4JTD4EQHDSCFR3TANCNFSM4QIT42YA> .

[danburzo]

I'm glad you got percollate working, and thank you for the kind words!

I've now bumped the minimum Node version to 10.22.0 for good measure, but I'll only publish a new version on npm with the next batch of updates.