When I followed the instructions in the starting-talkyard.md document to run talkyard. I got stuck at the nix-shell step.
Here is the output when I start the nix-shell:
error: nodejs_14 has been removed as it is EOL.
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
Who can help me? Thank you.
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KajMagnus @KajMagnus2024-10-16 15:41:04.485ZHi 刘志力, I'm using
nixos-22.11with Talkyard — I think Nodejs 14 is still available in NixOS 22.11 (but apparently not in the more recent 24.x Nix packages).If you want, you could try with
nixos-22.11instead?It'd be nice to upgrade to a more recent NixOS version soon. (B.t.w., Talkyard uses Nodejs for transpiling typescript and bundling scripts and running end-to-end tests, but not in production.)
- L刘志力 @liuzhili
Thank you for your reply.
I downgraded my Nix from version 2.9.2 to 2.5.1 on my Windows 10 WSL Ubuntu subsystem. But when I run nix-shell the console output the same content.error: nodejs_14 has been removed as it is EOL. (use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)I'm completely out of options due to my limited knowledge of niv.
KajMagnus @KajMagnus2024-10-21 08:37:36.496Zdowngraded my Nix version
Now I'm not an expert on Nix, but I suspect that this won't change what packages with 3rd party software (like Nodejs) one uses — only the version of the Nix binaries.
my limited knowledge of niv
Me too — I look into the Nix config so infrequently, so I tend to forget everything in between, and need to relearn.
- LIn reply toliuzhili⬆:刘志力 @liuzhili
Now it's resolved.I was stuck there due to my limited knowledge of niv.
I resolved the issue through the following steps.1, To temporarily allow all insecure packages (use an environment variable for a single invocation of the nix tools)
$ export NIXPKGS_ALLOW_INSECURE=12, Running nix-shell by using a fixed version of Nixpkgs configuration.
nix-shell -I nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/a71323f68d4377d12c04a5410e214495ec598d4c.tar.gz"a71323f68d4377d12c04a5410e214495ec598d4c" is a speical nixpkgs reference, you can find the right nixpkgs reference at https://www.nixhub.io/.
- KajMagnus @KajMagnus2024-10-21 08:38:33.445Z
Ok nice that there was a solution :- ) One idea: You could add a calendar event, 1 or 2 years from now, about removing the
NIXPKGS_ALLOW_INSECUREsetting, so you won't forget (because by then, likely Talkyard uses a newer version of the Nix packages, and the problem is gone).
- Progress