Hello,
trying to install n8n through pamac I get a conflict with nodejs version :
Erreur: La préparation de la transaction a échoué:
la satisfaction des dépendances a échoué:
- impossible de satisfaire la dépendance « nodejs>=18.17.0 » requise par n8n
- la suppression de nodejs casse la dépendance « nodejs » requise par node-gyp
- la suppression de nodejs casse la dépendance « nodejs>=20.17.0 » requise par npm
Output is in french but basically n8n requires nodejs>=18.17.0 and nodejs v23.9.0 is currently installed so what am I missing ? Everything should be fine isn’t it ? Every package has been installed using pamac.
Some forum recommend using nvm, but it’s depecrated in arch documentation. Any idea ?
To be able to ask the community for assistance it is required that you remove all alien packages (created using a custom PKGBUILD e.g. AUR)
Open a terminal
Create a list of alien packages
pacman -Qqem > ~/alien-package-list.txt
Unconditionally remove all aliens
sudo pacman -Rdd $(pacman -Qqem)
Optionally rebuild the mirrorlist
sudo pacman-mirrors --continent
Then run a full system sync
sudo pacman -Syu
Finally evaluate the content of the alien-package-list.txt and rebuild only those required for your day-to-day operation.
Thx,
I did all of that, helped me clean some minors old packages. Now the installation is clean and I only have 5 AUR packages freshly built :
dsnote
libreoffice-extension-grammalecte-fr
openlp
spectre-meltdown-checker
ttf-ms-fonts
Nothing changed when I try to install n8n though.
That is because n8n from the AUR conflicts with nodejs>=23:
pamac info n8n
Name : n8n
Version : 1.78.0-5
Description : Free and source-available fair-code licensed workflow automation tool. Easily automate tasks across different
services.
URL : https://n8n.io
Licenses : custom:Sustainable Use License
Repository : AUR
Groups : --
Depends On : nodejs>=18.17.0
Optional Dependencies : --
Make Dependencies : npm
Check Dependencies : --
Provides : --
Replaces : --
Conflicts With : nodejs>=23
Maintainer : lapsus
First Submitted : Thu 20 Jun 2024 01:02:04
Last Modified : Sat 15 Feb 2025 09:27:59
Votes : 2
Out of Date : --
The current version of nodejs in the repos is 23.9, which means it conflicts with n8n:
mbn info nodejs -q | grep -Ev 'Name|Repository|Packager'
Branch : archlinux
Version : 23.9.0-1
Build Date : Thu 27 Feb 2025 06:04:37
Branch : unstable
Version : 23.9.0-1
Build Date : Thu 27 Feb 2025 06:04:37
Branch : testing
Version : 23.9.0-1
Build Date : Thu 27 Feb 2025 06:04:37
Branch : stable
Version : 23.9.0-1
Build Date : Thu 27 Feb 2025 06:04:37
mbn can be found in the manjaro-check-repos package
So you cannot currently have n8n from the AUR & nodejs from the repos installed at the same time.
Nobody seems to have logged any issues on the AUR (en) - n8n though. However, a quick look at the PKGBUILD changes shows the conflict was added only a month ago:
2025-02-14 docs: add previous maintainer as contributor Yakov Till
2025-02-14 n8n: update to 1.78.0-5 (cleaned up) Yakov Till
2025-02-14 fix: add conflicts with nodejs>=23, clean up dependencies and update maintainer Yakov Till
2025-02-14 fix: add conflicts with nodejs>=23 to prevent installation with incompatible ... Yakov Till
2025-02-14 fix: adjust nodejs version constraints to match upstream requirements (pkgrel 3) Yakov Till
2025-02-14 fix: specify compatible nodejs versions in dependencies (pkgrel 2) Yakov Till