Docs need updating - Node 18 vs Ubuntu 18

How to install & setup Ghost on Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04 or 22.04 says that Ubuntu 16+ is supported. But Node 18 (new requirement in 5.71) doesn’t look like it installs on Ubuntu < 20.0 due to a glibc6 problem.

I’m going to try some other options, but it might be worth updating the docs @RyanF

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Aaaand, I won’t be trying out recommendations today, if it means I have to run a dist-upgrade on my production server. Yeah, no.

Updated. The compat between Node and Ubuntu is a bit of a mess right now…

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Yup. And while I’d have recommended Hostinger, where I paid up front for four years of VPS, up until today, today when I asked them if they could spin up a Ubuntu 20 VPS for me to migrate into (paying extra while both old and new VPS were up), I’m not feeling super happy with them right now, because they don’t seem to be able to understand that I don’t want to take the current one offline while running a dist-upgrade and hoping it all works. ARGH.

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