Local setup problems [Jun 23]

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:raising_hand_man: moi asked

Hello, I’d like to contribute et to do so, install and run nocodb locally. Should I install the project bare metal on my computer or using the docker-compose provider is easier ?

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:raising_hand_man: wkw replied

lets discuss here

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:raising_hand_man: wkw replied

> weird, with node 16 I could not install and it seems I had to be on node v8 to have npm install working almost properly

can you show how you installed n what kind of errors you had

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:raising_hand_man: wkw replied

> It seems I also need python2. I think the documentation you gave me is used for something else

why? are you looking at development setup?

https://docs.nocodb.com/getting-started/installation/#development-setup

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:raising_hand_man: moi replied

I succeed to install the backend with node 16

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:raising_hand_man: moi replied

I discovered the issue passing with node8 and having some python errors

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:raising_hand_man: moi replied

So I had to install pyenv et python2.7 so I could install with node 16

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:raising_hand_man: moi replied

I had some node-gyp errors

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:raising_hand_man: wkw replied

why node 8 …

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:raising_hand_man: moi replied

an error I get suggest to use node 8 so I tried

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:raising_hand_man: moi replied

maybe I missread the errors but it helped me fix it :slightly_smiling_face:

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:raising_hand_man: wkw replied

do u mean npm version 8

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:raising_hand_man: wkw replied

my local setup

node v16.14.0

npm v8.3.1

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:raising_hand_man: wkw replied

u may try follow this

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:raising_hand_man: moi replied

No, I change my node version, maybe the errors handler using the python is not compatible with node16

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:raising_hand_man: moi replied

I did n 8 (n is an alternative to nvm)

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:raising_hand_man: wkw replied

node 8 failed for sure

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