corepack enable - command not found: nodejs 16 moved to 18.7 on apt update first time

[DaveT-T]

Fresh install Ubuntu 22.04-- following mastodon install from source instructions
Specifically requested nodejs v 16 (failed several prev wipe|clean installs trying to use v19)
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | bash -

during subsequent steps
apt update
upgraded nodejs to version 18.7
ran apt install -y on the whole set including nodejs no errors all went fine all success

next step corepack enable fails
'corepack: command not found'

without yarn, mastodon will not function
without corepack, yarn may not function correctly

did deep dive searches for help. During prev attempts with nodejs v19 I installed yarn and corepack using npm but final deployment of mastodon would not generate any user pages or content (admin pages worked tho) so tried again this time with a clean wipe fresh UBUNTU with strict nodejs version 16 requested and the apt update seems to have broken something as corepack is not included in standard install of version 18.7

Help------continue by installing npm, then using npm to install corepack and yarn?
Or stop and wait until someone figues out why corepack and yarn not included in 18.7 clean install

[DaveT-T]

node v shows 'v18.7.0'
so it seems to have installed normally just without corepack

[DaveT-T]

SOLVED: must install the LTS version and not version 16.

when using
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | bash -
apt install -y nodejs
the installer automatically runs apt-update and changes to v18.7.0 which does not include corepack

instead run for LTS
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_lts.x | bash -
apt install -y nodejs build-essential gcc g++ make
####this will install v18.12.1 which DOES include corepack

corepack enable (success)
yarn set version stable (success)

When they released v18.7.0 they must have not included corepack

[DaveT-T]

Oops..forgot. If you already installed setup_16.x or apt-update has otherwise changed your system to nodejs v18.7.0
simply remove and reinstall nodejs:
perform as root
node -v (this will show what version is currently installed in my case v18.7.0)
apt remove nodejs
apt autoremove
and then install the LTS version (currently v18.12.1)
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_lts.x | bash -
apt install -y nodejs build-essential gcc g++ make

####this will install v18.12.1 which DOES include corepack

[jaguardo]

Looks like there is now a deprecation warning, from running the first script:

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[vmstan]

Yeah that should be fixed by #1340 just need to get it merged @renchap :)