Installing Ghost on Ubuntu VM (Apple M1)

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Hi

New user here… I am trying to set up a Ghost on a Virtual machine.

The VM is Ubuntu 22.04 but the ARM version of the Ubuntu server running on a MacBook Air (M1) using UTM (QEMU).

I am following this guide > How to install & setup Ghost on Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04

Everything runs as expected until I do the actual ghost install
I get a very detailed error which I can’t fathom and wondered if this was the right place to ask for assistance?

I can post/attach the log file if anyone can take a look.

If anyone can assist please give me a shout.

Kind regards

Karl

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Yes, please attach the log.

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Many thanks Ryan. I am happy to help in any way I can if you need me to run tests/reinstall a VM or two to uncover what’s happening.

The forum won’t allow me to paste the whole log in here as it is complaining about “number of links”

Is there any other way I can get the logfile to you?

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What’s your end goal of installing Ghost on the VM?

Can you share the beginning of the error, that’s usually the most helpful?

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OK will go dig out the “juicy” bits and paste them in.
I want to make sure I can create a Ghost production system myself before embarking on a journey where I will spend a little money with a UK based cloud hosting service to create a Ghost site.

There are many lines which indicates errors but these are the first few lines I see in the terminal windows:-

:heavy_multiplication_x: Downloading and installing Ghost v5.85.0

A ProcessError occurred.

Message: Command failed: yarn install --no-emoji --no-progress

warning ghost@5.85.0: The engine “cli” appears to be invalid.

warning Resolution field “moment@2.24.0” is incompatible with requested version “moment@^2.29.1”

warning Resolution field “moment@2.24.0” is incompatible with requested version “moment@2.29.1”

And in the log file …

Debug Information:
OS: Ubuntu, v22.04.4 LTS
Node Version: v18.20.3
Ghost-CLI Version: 1.26.0
Environment: production
Command: ‘ghost install’

…

gyp info spawn args ]
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: not found: make
gyp ERR! stack at getNotFoundError (/var/www/ghost1/versions/5.85.0/node_modules/re2/node_modules/which/lib/index.js:16:17)
gyp ERR! stack at which (/var/www/ghost1/versions/5.85.0/node_modules/re2/node_modules/which/lib/index.js:77:9)
gyp ERR! stack at async doWhich (/var/www/ghost1/versions/5.85.0/node_modules/re2/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:112:22)
gyp ERR! stack at async loadConfigGypi (/var/www/ghost1/versions/5.85.0/node_modules/re2/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:77:7)
gyp ERR! stack at async build (/var/www/ghost1/versions/5.85.0/node_modules/re2/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:35:3)
gyp ERR! stack at async run (/var/www/ghost1/versions/5.85.0/node_modules/re2/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js:81:18)
gyp ERR! System Linux 5.15.0-112-generic
gyp ERR! command “/usr/bin/node” “/var/www/ghost1/versions/5.85.0/node_modules/re2/node_modules/.bin/node-gyp” “rebuild”
gyp ERR! cwd /var/www/ghost1/versions/5.85.0/node_modules/re2
gyp ERR! node -v v18.20.3
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v10.0.1
gyp ERR! not ok
node:internal/process/promises:288
triggerUncaughtException(err, true /* fromPromise */);
^

[UnhandledPromiseRejection: This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). The promise rejected with the reason “1”.] {
code: ‘ERR_UNHANDLED_REJECTION’
}

Node.js v18.20.3

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Looks like the same error from this post:

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Thank you vikaspotluri123
That has indeed solved it. Sorry I did not spot that other post.

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No problem! gyp errors are always frustrating to parse and root-cause :slight_smile: