Unable to install nodejs on Debian and Ubuntu

[q0rban]

I am unable to install NodeJS 12 on Debian buster due to unmet dependencies. The specific error is nodejs : Depends: libgcc-s1 (>= 3.4) but it is not installable.

Steps to replicate:

$ docker run debian:buster-slim bash -c 'apt-get update && apt-get -y install curl && curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | bash - && apt-get -y install nodejs'

...
## Confirming "buster" is supported...
...


The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 nodejs : Depends: libgcc-s1 (>= 3.4) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[agundy]

Same underlying issue but I want to point out that this additionally breaks for both ubuntu:xenial and ubuntu:bionic which up to today both built fine.

docker run ubuntu:xenial bash -c 'apt-get update && apt-get -y install curl && curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | bash - && apt-get -y install nodejs'
docker run ubuntu:bionic bash -c 'apt-get update && apt-get -y install curl && curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | bash - && apt-get -y install nodejs'

[gcarothers]

Same issue with Node 14.x as well, went looking for changes to the debian packages recently but didn't find any

[zodman]

I confirm:

docker run debian:stable bash -c 'apt-get update && apt-get -y install curl && curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | bash - && apt-get -y install nodejs'

....
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 nodejs : Depends: libgcc-s1 (>= 3.4) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[scwall]

arf same, great update :/

Get:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages [157 kB]
Fetched 198 kB in 1s (223 kB/s)
Reading package lists...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 nodejs : Depends: libgcc-s1 (>= 3.4) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[igsu]

We are actively working on solving this issue, as soon as it has been fixed it will be reported here.

[EnnioWolsink]

If you can afford to use Node v16, this problem doesn't seem to occur when installing this version. Can anyone else confirm?

See https://github.com/nodesource/distributions#installation-instructions

[doc-balto]

Based on this other topic: #33

We found a temp workaround by pinning to the previous version. We're using docker w/ Ubuntu & Node 14, so added with this:

RUN set -ex \
    apt-get update \
    curl -o nodejs.deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_14.x/pool/main/n/nodejs/nodejs_14.17.2-1nodesource1_amd64.deb \
    apt-get install -y ./nodejs.deb \
    rm nodejs.deb \
    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

[igsu]

We have detected the source of the problem and this issue has been fixed.

[excid3]

Fix worked for me @igsu 🙏

[needcaffeine]

Get:5 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_12.x stretch/main amd64 nodejs amd64 12.22.4-1nodesource1 [18.2 MB]
Err:5 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_12.x stretch/main amd64 nodejs amd64 12.22.4-1nodesource1
  Writing more data than expected (18201958 > 18198878)
  Hashes of expected file:
   - SHA256:e06f310695beca44b83eea02ea0ca3d518e3b04dfc28697a356383a2a8f462a1
   - SHA1:f8dbe1c58e0b37f8122dc70173215bc006323095 [weak]
   - MD5Sum:a20874d3437df32c259fa27d11d26d9d [weak]
   - Filesize:18198878 [weak]

Fetched 2338 kB in 0s (8342 kB/s)
E: Failed to fetch https://deb.nodesource.com/node_12.x/pool/main/n/nodejs/nodejs_12.22.4-1nodesource1_amd64.deb  Writing more data than expected (18201958 > 18198878)
   Hashes of expected file:
    - SHA256:e06f310695beca44b83eea02ea0ca3d518e3b04dfc28697a356383a2a8f462a1
    - SHA1:f8dbe1c58e0b37f8122dc70173215bc006323095 [weak]
    - MD5Sum:a20874d3437df32c259fa27d11d26d9d [weak]
    - Filesize:18198878 [weak]

Unfortunately still failing for me.

[LupineDev]

Get:5 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_12.x stretch/main amd64 nodejs amd64 12.22.4-1nodesource1 [18.2 MB]
Err:5 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_12.x stretch/main amd64 nodejs amd64 12.22.4-1nodesource1
  Writing more data than expected (18201958 > 18198878)
  Hashes of expected file:
   - SHA256:e06f310695beca44b83eea02ea0ca3d518e3b04dfc28697a356383a2a8f462a1
   - SHA1:f8dbe1c58e0b37f8122dc70173215bc006323095 [weak]
   - MD5Sum:a20874d3437df32c259fa27d11d26d9d [weak]
   - Filesize:18198878 [weak]

Fetched 2338 kB in 0s (8342 kB/s)
E: Failed to fetch https://deb.nodesource.com/node_12.x/pool/main/n/nodejs/nodejs_12.22.4-1nodesource1_amd64.deb  Writing more data than expected (18201958 > 18198878)
   Hashes of expected file:
    - SHA256:e06f310695beca44b83eea02ea0ca3d518e3b04dfc28697a356383a2a8f462a1
    - SHA1:f8dbe1c58e0b37f8122dc70173215bc006323095 [weak]
    - MD5Sum:a20874d3437df32c259fa27d11d26d9d [weak]
    - Filesize:18198878 [weak]

Unfortunately still failing for me.

I get a similar error but it says Mirror sync in progress in the Failed to fetch... line. Hopefully it will resolve itself in a bit.

[nickatnight]

Confirmed working thanks @igsu

[needcaffeine]

I can confirm that it resolved itself! Thanks @igsu.

[sushanth-krishnaswamy]

Confirming that it resolved itself! Thanks @igsu :)

[arunchandrancTR]

Verified on my side, it is working for me. Thank you, team.

[q0rban]

Thanks for the prompt fix, it was breaking Tugboat builds for our customers… Closing the issue. Oh, and here's a goat for your troubles. 🐐

[scwall]

thank you for your promptness @igsu

[adrienfr]

Still have an issue on CircleCI with :

curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | bash -
apt-get install -y nodejs

Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 libpython2.7-minimal amd64 2.7.16-2+deb10u1 [395 kB]
Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 python2.7-minimal amd64 2.7.16-2+deb10u1 [1369 kB]
Get:3 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_14.x buster/main amd64 nodejs amd64 14.17.4-1nodesource1 [25.0 MB]
Err:3 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_14.x buster/main amd64 nodejs amd64 14.17.4-1nodesource1
File has unexpected size (25211968 != 25045506). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: 23.62.230.111 443]
Hashes of expected file:

• SHA256:796a1b5f6fa3caddd4b1f6e31bb8e98a1f289dae638a17d41ec73be0d080eceb
• SHA1:d7e7966ad5ba47486a307d33b61b637e11c87335 [weak]
• MD5Sum:2c4e16dcadfed0711d1a3192da4c6d1e [weak]
• Filesize:25045506 [weak]

[eric-eye]

Hello! Thank you all for fixing yesterday. I am also still experiencing the checksum failure:

Get:1 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_12.x buster/main amd64 nodejs amd64 12.22.4-1nodesource1 [18.2 MB]
Err:1 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_12.x buster/main amd64 nodejs amd64 12.22.4-1nodesource1
  File has unexpected size (18316392 != 18198878). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: 23.62.230.111 443]
  Hashes of expected file:
   - SHA256:e06f310695beca44b83eea02ea0ca3d518e3b04dfc28697a356383a2a8f462a1
   - SHA1:f8dbe1c58e0b37f8122dc70173215bc006323095 [weak]
   - MD5Sum:a20874d3437df32c259fa27d11d26d9d [weak]
   - Filesize:18198878 [weak]
E: Failed to fetch https://deb.nodesource.com/node_12.x/pool/main/n/nodejs/nodejs_12.22.4-1nodesource1_amd64.deb  File has unexpected size (18316392 != 18198878). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: 23.62.230.111 443]
   Hashes of expected file:
    - SHA256:e06f310695beca44b83eea02ea0ca3d518e3b04dfc28697a356383a2a8f462a1
    - SHA1:f8dbe1c58e0b37f8122dc70173215bc006323095 [weak]
    - MD5Sum:a20874d3437df32c259fa27d11d26d9d [weak]
    - Filesize:18198878 [weak]