Help with command using Ubuntu

[GangstaPichu]

I'm trying to run "npm i --production && npm start
" but I don't have npm to work with. I'm not sure if there's anyway around this. I saw that there's things like yarn and what not, but I'm not sure how to even use those properly to make it do what that command is doing. I know it's installing dependencies and such, but I lack enough knowledge to find a good alternative it seems. I've had this issue with npm before. It's like the one command I always have an issue with when guides use it. So, I'm lost on what to do and I'd really love to set the bot up, but I can't progress past this stage. I've tried to find something on my own, but like I said. I just lack the experience and know how I need to pull this off. So, any help is much appreciated!

[eartharoid]

NPM is installed alongside Node.js by default, and the easiest way to correctly install Node.js on Ubuntu is to first install NVM, then (after restarting your terminal) run nvm install node.
You should then be able to do node -v and npm -v successfully.

[GangstaPichu]

I just did that. Am I supposed to get this when doing those commands at the end?

"node: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by node)"

[eartharoid]

No, that's not supposed to happen 😄. If for whatever reason you can't get your environment working correctly, you could try running the bot in a Docker container instead.
I can't help you do that with v3, but the v4 beta should work easily with Docker.

[GangstaPichu]

Ok, nevermind that. I found something that fixed that? This is what I did just incase I did something wrong here.

sudo apt-get remove nodejs
nvm install 16.15.1

Now when I run the command stuff it's all fine. So, I tried to do the command to setup the bot and I get this:

npm WARN config production Use --omit=dev instead.
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall open
npm ERR! path /home/ubuntu/package.json
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/ubuntu/package.json'
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/ubuntu/.npm/_logs/2023-05-14T21_44_40_989Z-debug-0.log

[eartharoid]

It looks like you're running the command in your home directory. You need to cd into the directory you downloaded the code into, bot by default if you cloned the repository with git.

[GangstaPichu]

Oh! Thanks. Lol

I guess I overlooked that. My bad. Thanks! Seems it all works now. Just had those 2 little hiccups. I put what I did down in my notepad for whenever I need it. Thanks a lot for the help! :)