"deprecated" warnings installing Ghost on fresh system

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1

Greetings!

The setup:

  • Fresh Ubuntu 24
  • Using Node v20
  • Following the Ghost docs here: https://ghost.org/docs/install/ubuntu/
  • I followed every step in the doc no problem or error
  • no errors or issues until command:

sudo npm install ghost-cli@latest -g

The “deprecated” message:

Preparing to unpack …/nodejs_20.19.0-1nodesource1_amd64.deb …
Unpacking nodejs (20.19.0-1nodesource1) …
Setting up nodejs (20.19.0-1nodesource1) …
Processing triggers for man-db (2.12.0-4build2) …
####@#####:~$ sudo npm install ghost-cli@latest -g
npm warn deprecated inflight@1.0.6: This module is not supported, and leaks memory. Do not use it. Check out lru-cache if you want a good and tested way to coalesce async requests by a key value, which is much more comprehensive and powerful.
npm warn deprecated glob@7.2.3: Glob versions prior to v9 are no longer supported

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npm notice
npm notice New major version of npm available! 10.8.2 → 11.2.0
npm notice Changelog: Release v11.2.0 · npm/cli · GitHub
npm notice To update run: npm install -g npm@11.2.0
npm notice

4

These warnings are fine :slight_smile:

5

I see that (in that I have everthing running)… but suggest taking steps to clean them up.

They are a bit alarming to new members of the ecosystem. And a tight sysadmin might push back on production deployments in the face of such messages. (I am just in scratch / dev environments so far)

fwiw!

6

You are using Ubuntu version 24.04, which is not compatible with ghost-cli. Install version 22.04 or 20.04, as stated in the documentation:

Ubuntu 20.04 or Ubuntu 22.04
NGINX (minimum of 1.9.5 for SSL)
A supported version of Node.js
MySQL 8
Systemd
A server with at least 1 GB of memory
A registered domain name