Cannot update n8n LXC

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I've installed n8n via your script a long while ago and haven't had issues updating previously. However, now I'm trying to update n8n from v1.50.2 to v1.55.3 and when I run update (as root), I get [ERROR] in line 67: exit code 0: while executing command npm update -g n8n &> /dev/null.

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Which Linux distribution are you employing?

Debian 12

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When I run update (as root), I get [ERROR] in line 67: exit code 0: while executing command npm update -g n8n &> /dev/null.

When I try to manually run npm install --global patch-package and then npm install --global n8n@1.55.3 from the root home directory, I don't get any errors (there are warnings which is typical). I then run systemctl restart n8n but n8n doesn't show as updated in the UI. When I try and run npm update -g n8n manually, that does return an error:

npm warn EBADENGINE Unsupported engine {
npm warn EBADENGINE   package: '@n8n/tournament@1.0.5',
npm warn EBADENGINE   required: { node: '>=20.15', pnpm: '>=9.5' },
npm warn EBADENGINE   current: { node: 'v18.20.4', npm: '10.7.0' }
npm warn EBADENGINE }
npm warn EBADENGINE Unsupported engine {
npm warn EBADENGINE   package: '@n8n_io/ai-assistant-sdk@1.9.4',
npm warn EBADENGINE   required: { node: '>=20.15', pnpm: '>=8.14' },
npm warn EBADENGINE   current: { node: 'v18.20.4', npm: '10.7.0' }
npm warn EBADENGINE }
npm error code ETARGET
npm error notarget No matching version found for xlsx@0.20.2.
npm error notarget In most cases you or one of your dependencies are requesting
npm error notarget a package version that doesn't exist.

npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /root/.npm/_logs/2024-08-25T13_52_50_135Z-debug-0.log

It's weird the npm update returns an error but installing the specific latest version doesn't return an error. Perhaps update is grabbing the next version? I don't know. It also looks like n8n may be targeting a new version of NodeJS with the EBADENGINE warnings.

Your help/advice would be sincerely appreciated!

[ajtatum]

I noticed in an commit to install/n8n-install.sh that you're now installing NodeJS v20. So I updated /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list to point to v20 by updating it's contents to deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg] https://deb.nodesource.com/node_20.x nodistro main. I then ran apt update and apt upgrade to update node. I then tried running the update script again and received the same error. When I try to manually run npm update -g n8n I get the following error:

npm warn EBADENGINE Unsupported engine {
npm warn EBADENGINE   package: '@azure/msal-node@1.18.4',
npm warn EBADENGINE   required: { node: '10 || 12 || 14 || 16 || 18' },
npm warn EBADENGINE   current: { node: 'v20.17.0', npm: '10.8.2' }
npm warn EBADENGINE }
npm error code ETARGET
npm error notarget No matching version found for xlsx@0.20.2.
npm error notarget In most cases you or one of your dependencies are requesting
npm error notarget a package version that doesn't exist.
npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /root/.npm/_logs/2024-08-25T14_03_35_507Z-debug-0.log

Basically the same error.

[ajtatum]

In the file /usr/lib/node_modules/n8n/package.json it shows version as 1.55.3.

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root@n8n:~#

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Maybe ask over at https://community.n8n.io/

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🧐 As this issue is unrelated to the script, it is considered closed.