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1 year ago Just tried going to 18.17.0, but had to back down to 16.21.0 — citing my commit from ansible-configs:
chore: downgrade NodeJS from v18.17.0 to v16.20.1
Same error as others reported here:
Amazon Linux 2 only has glibc 2.26:
$ ldd --version
ldd (GNU libc) 2.26
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Written by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.So trying to run NodeJS v18 will die:
$ /opt/node/bin/node --version
/opt/node/bin/node: /lib64/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by /opt/node/bin/node)
/opt/node/bin/node: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by /opt/node/bin/node)Updating glibc isn't viable, so will have to wait until moving to Amazon Linux 2023:
Amazon Linux 2023 comes with NodeJS v18 anyway (18.12.1 at the time of writing):
So, retitled this to "Update to NodeJS v16" and will close it, then create another issue for v18, marking it as blocked by the Amazon Linux 2023 ticket.
Currently using v14.17.1 on the server, but current LTS version is v16.13.1.
Wouldn't be too hard to update because I am installing and building from source already anyway (via Ansible).
Nothing really pressing motivating this; just wanting to stay relatively up-to-date to avoid later headaches.