Sakai 23.2 and later (and master) does not work on Ubuntu 18 or earlier (not really a bug per se)

[Charles Severance]

Hi all,

I was upgrading one of my Ubuntu servers to the latest 23.x / 23.2 and it would not compile with the following message:

[INFO] Running 'npm install' in /root/sakai-scripts/trunk/webcomponents/tool/src/main/frontend

[INFO] /root/sakai-scripts/trunk/webcomponents/tool/target/node/node: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by /root/sakai-scripts/trunk/webcomponents/tool/target/node/node)

The problem is not in our code in any way - it is in the node dependency that is installed to do all the ESBuild magic. The version of node/npm requires Ubuntu 20 or later.

Don’t make too much of fun of me running a 6-year-old Ubuntu (out of support for over a year) in light production :) It seems like yesterday that I was upgrading from 14 to 18.

I upgraded to Ubuntu 20 and all was well.

So check your Ubuntu version before you upgrade. Hopefully you won’t be fat back like :)

/Chuck

[Sam Ottenhoff]

Yes, definitely upgrade your Ubuntu if you can. If you cannot, and you want to build right now, I believe you can still build while downgrading the dependencies:

  find . -name pom.xml -exec sed -i 's:<nodeVersion>v18.16.1</nodeVersion>:<nodeVersion>v16.15.0</nodeVersion>:g' {} \;
  find . -name pom.xml -exec sed -i 's:<npmVersion>9.5.1</npmVersion>:<npmVersion>8.5.5</npmVersion>:g' {} \;

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