# CLI install on Linux Mint 19.3

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/cli-install-on-linux-mint-19-3/12575>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [19 November 2020 09:41 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/cli-install-on-linux-mint-19-3/12575 "2020-11-19T09:41:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lew](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/lew/32/21149_2.png) [@Lew](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/Lew)\
**Post date:** [19 November 2020 09:41 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/cli-install-on-linux-mint-19-3/12575/1 "2020-11-19T09:41:28Z")

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I tried installing the CLI, but failed.  
On my desktop I already have Joplin 1.3.18 working.  
I was not sure if it is the right one, but installed this:

```
`curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -`

```

Why I did this is because the FAQ says:  
**Important:** First, [install Node 10+](https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/).

Did I interpret wrongly that Node 10 is the same as setup\_10.x perhaps?  
Because when I pasted this in the terminal:

```
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

```

Reading package lists... Done  
Building dependency tree  
Reading state information... Done  
nodejs is already the newest version (8.16.1-1nodesource1).  
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

and then the next command, it went haywire:

```
 NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=~/.joplin-bin npm install -g joplin

```

npm WARN deprecated request@2.88.2: request has been deprecated, see [https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142](https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142)  
npm WARN deprecated har-validator@5.1.5: this library is no longer supported  
npm WARN deprecated urix@0.1.0: Please see [GitHub - lydell/urix: [DEPRECATED] Makes Windows-style paths more unix and URI friendly.](https://github.com/lydell/urix#deprecated)  
npm WARN deprecated resolve-url@0.2.1: [GitHub - lydell/resolve-url: [DEPRECATED] Like Node.js’ `path.resolve`/`url.resolve` for the browser.](https://github.com/lydell/resolve-url#deprecated)  
npm WARN deprecated request-promise-native@1.0.9: request-promise-native has been deprecated because it extends the now deprecated request package, see [https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142](https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142)  
/home/ludo/.joplin-bin/bin/joplin -\> /home/ludo/.joplin-bin/lib/node\_modules/joplin/main.js

> sqlite3@4.2.0 install /home/ludo/.joplin-bin/lib/node\_modules/joplin/node\_modules/sqlite3  
> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build

node-pre-gyp WARN Using request for node-pre-gyp https download  
[sqlite3] Success: "/home/ludo/.joplin-bin/lib/node\_modules/joplin/node\_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v57-linux-x64/node\_sqlite3.node" is installed via remote

> keytar@7.1.0 install /home/ludo/.joplin-bin/lib/node\_modules/joplin/node\_modules/keytar  
> prebuild-install || node-gyp rebuild

> sharp@0.26.3 install /home/ludo/.joplin-bin/lib/node\_modules/joplin/node\_modules/sharp  
> (node install/libvips && node install/dll-copy && prebuild-install) || (node-gyp rebuild && node install/dll-copy)

ERR! sharp Expected Node.js version \>=10 but found 8.16.1  
info sharp Attempting to build from source via node-gyp but this may fail due to the above error  
info sharp Please see [sharp - High performance Node.js image processing](https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/install) for required dependencies  
make: Entering directory '/home/ludo/.joplin-bin/lib/node\_modules/joplin/node\_modules/sharp/build'  
CC(target) Release/obj.target/nothing/../node-addon-api/nothing.o  
AR(target) Release/obj.target/../node-addon-api/nothing.a  
COPY Release/nothing.a  
TOUCH Release/obj.target/libvips-cpp.stamp  
CXX(target) Release/obj.target/sharp/src/common.o  
../src/common.cc:24:10: fatal error: vips/vips8: No such file or directory  
#include \<vips/vips8\>  
^ ~~~~~~~~~~~  
compilation terminated.  
sharp.target.mk:129: recipe for target 'Release/obj.target/sharp/src/common.o' failed  
make: \*\*\* [Release/obj.target/sharp/src/common.o] Error 1  
make: Leaving directory '/home/ludo/.joplin-bin/lib/node\_modules/joplin/node\_modules/sharp/build'  
gyp ERR! build error  
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2  
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/lib/node\_modules/npm/node\_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:262:23)  
gyp ERR! stack at emitTwo (events.js:126:13)  
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:214:7)  
gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess.\_handle.onexit (internal/child\_process.js:198:12)  
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.15.0-124-lowlatency  
gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/lib/node\_modules/npm/node\_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"  
gyp ERR! cwd /home/ludo/.joplin-bin/lib/node\_modules/joplin/node\_modules/sharp  
gyp ERR! node -v v8.16.1  
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0  
gyp ERR! not ok  
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@~2.1.2 (node\_modules/joplin/node\_modules/chokidar/node\_modules/fsevents):  
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@2.1.3: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})  
npm WARN babel-eslint@10.1.0 requires a peer of eslint@\>= 4.12.1 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.  
npm WARN jsdom@15.2.1 requires a peer of canvas@^2.5.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.  
npm WARN ws@7.4.0 requires a peer of bufferutil@^4.0.1 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.  
npm WARN ws@7.4.0 requires a peer of utf-8-validate@^5.0.2 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE  
npm ERR! errno 1  
npm ERR! sharp@0.26.3 install: `(node install/libvips && node install/dll-copy && prebuild-install) || (node-gyp rebuild && node install/dll-copy)`  
npm ERR! Exit status 1  
npm ERR!  
npm ERR! Failed at the sharp@0.26.3 install script.  
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:  
npm ERR! /home/ludo/.npm/\_logs/2020-11-19T09\_18\_45\_323Z-debug.log

Sorry BTW if I didn't get the conventions for pasting terminal output 100% right.

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**Post date:** [19 November 2020 10:14 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/cli-install-on-linux-mint-19-3/12575/2 "2020-11-19T10:14:04Z")

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nodejs install for package manager: [https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/](https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/)

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**Post date:** [19 November 2020 10:55 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/cli-install-on-linux-mint-19-3/12575/3 "2020-11-19T10:55:00Z")

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Yes, that's the way I went and picked  
_Debian and Ubuntu based Linux distributions_  
and then followed the link all the way up to the  
_Installation instructions_  
which resulted in the above problem.

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**Post date:** [19 November 2020 11:23 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/cli-install-on-linux-mint-19-3/12575/4 "2020-11-19T11:23:03Z")

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Obviously, you have nodejs 8 installed, and at least nodejs 10 is required  
Try

```
# Using Ubuntu
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
```

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**Post date:** [19 November 2020 12:46 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/cli-install-on-linux-mint-19-3/12575/5 "2020-11-19T12:46:00Z")

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ok, so I tried:

```
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_15.x | sudo -E bash -

```

and then again had this:

```
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
nodejs is already the newest version (8.16.1-1nodesource1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

```

and  
`NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=~/.joplin-bin npm install -g joplin`  
gave me all the warnings / errors again

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**Post date:** [19 November 2020 12:50 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/cli-install-on-linux-mint-19-3/12575/6 "2020-11-19T12:50:42Z")

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First uninstall nodejs v8 on the system

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**Post date:** [19 November 2020 12:51 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/cli-install-on-linux-mint-19-3/12575/7 "2020-11-19T12:51:33Z")

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Then install nodejs v10 instead of v15

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**Post date:** [19 November 2020 13:13 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/cli-install-on-linux-mint-19-3/12575/8 "2020-11-19T13:13:15Z")

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it seemed to go well, but  
`NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=~/.joplin-bin npm install -g joplin`

gave me  
`bash: /usr/bin/npm: No such file or directory`

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**Author:** ![rxliuli](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/rxliuli/32/4083_2.png) [@rxliuli](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/rxliuli)\
**Post date:** [19 November 2020 13:18 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/cli-install-on-linux-mint-19-3/12575/9 "2020-11-19T13:18:14Z")

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Make sure you have successfully installed nodejs

`node --version`

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**Post date:** [19 November 2020 13:54 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/cli-install-on-linux-mint-19-3/12575/10 "2020-11-19T13:54:32Z")

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I purged and autoremoved and again went with  
`curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -`

and installed again but still see  
`node --version`  
`v8.10.0`

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**Author:** ![Lew](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/lew/32/21149_2.png) [@Lew](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/Lew)\
**Post date:** [20 November 2020 11:36 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/cli-install-on-linux-mint-19-3/12575/11 "2020-11-20T11:36:59Z")

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I went through the procedures once more and somehow must've done something different, because now I have the right version v10.23.0, but I still get a lot of warnings:

NPM\_CONFIG\_PREFIX=~/.joplin-bin npm install -g joplin  
npm WARN deprecated request@2.88.2: request has been deprecated, see [https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142](https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142)  
npm WARN deprecated har-validator@5.1.5: this library is no longer supported  
npm WARN deprecated urix@0.1.0: Please see [GitHub - lydell/urix: [DEPRECATED] Makes Windows-style paths more unix and URI friendly.](https://github.com/lydell/urix#deprecated)  
npm WARN deprecated resolve-url@0.2.1: [GitHub - lydell/resolve-url: [DEPRECATED] Like Node.js’ `path.resolve`/`url.resolve` for the browser.](https://github.com/lydell/resolve-url#deprecated)  
npm WARN deprecated request-promise-native@1.0.9: request-promise-native has been deprecated because it extends the now deprecated request package, see [https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142](https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142)  
/home/ludo/.joplin-bin/bin/joplin -\> /home/ludo/.joplin-bin/lib/node\_modules/joplin/main.js

> sqlite3@4.2.0 install /home/ludo/.joplin-bin/lib/node\_modules/joplin/node\_modules/sqlite3  
> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build

node-pre-gyp WARN Using request for node-pre-gyp https download  
[sqlite3] Success: "/home/ludo/.joplin-bin/lib/node\_modules/joplin/node\_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v64-linux-x64/node\_sqlite3.node" is installed via remote

> keytar@7.2.0 install /home/ludo/.joplin-bin/lib/node\_modules/joplin/node\_modules/keytar  
> prebuild-install || npm run build

> sharp@0.26.3 install /home/ludo/.joplin-bin/lib/node\_modules/joplin/node\_modules/sharp  
> (node install/libvips && node install/dll-copy && prebuild-install) || (node-gyp rebuild && node install/dll-copy)

info sharp Downloading [https://github.com/lovell/sharp-libvips/releases/download/v8.10.0/libvips-8.10.0-linux-x64.tar.br](https://github.com/lovell/sharp-libvips/releases/download/v8.10.0/libvips-8.10.0-linux-x64.tar.br)  
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@~2.1.2 (node\_modules/joplin/node\_modules/chokidar/node\_modules/fsevents):  
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@2.1.3: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})  
npm WARN babel-eslint@10.1.0 requires a peer of eslint@\>= 4.12.1 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.  
npm WARN jsdom@15.2.1 requires a peer of canvas@^2.5.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.  
npm WARN ws@7.4.0 requires a peer of bufferutil@^4.0.1 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.  
npm WARN ws@7.4.0 requires a peer of utf-8-validate@^5.0.2 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.

- joplin@1.4.3  
added 580 packages from 818 contributors in 34.865s

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐  
│ npm update check failed │  
│ Try running with sudo or get access │  
│ to the local update config store via │  
│ sudo chown -R $USER:$(id -gn $USER) /home/ludo/.config

Trying that same command with sudo, as the output suggested, still gives 11 warnings.  
However, I can start Joplin in terminal - is this right?

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**Post date:** [20 November 2020 12:01 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/cli-install-on-linux-mint-19-3/12575/12 "2020-11-20T12:01:41Z")

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In the past I also had problems building Joplin on Linux Mint 19.3. I could solve them by

```auto
sudo apt install g++ libsecret-1-dev libgconf-2-4 
npm install -g node-gyp

```

Not sure if all packages were needed but at least it worked. However haven't tested this with the newest Joplin version.

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**Author:** ![Lew](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/lew/32/21149_2.png) [@Lew](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/Lew)\
**Post date:** [20 November 2020 12:14 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/cli-install-on-linux-mint-19-3/12575/13 "2020-11-20T12:14:12Z")

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```
sudo apt install g++ libsecret-1-dev libgconf-2-4

```

went smooth, but the 2nd command gave many errors and it was suggested to try again as root.  
This narrowed down the amount of warnings to 2:

```
sudo npm install -g node-gyp

```

npm WARN deprecated request@2.88.2: request has been deprecated, see [https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142](https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142)  
npm WARN deprecated har-validator@5.1.5: this library is no longer supported  
/usr/bin/node-gyp -\> /usr/lib/node\_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js

- node-gyp@7.1.2  
added 96 packages from 66 contributors in 2.992s

EDIT: still, starting joplin in terminal works.  
Sync was also successful; I found the how-to info on the joplin home page 🙂