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jeffshurtliff
Boss
6 years ago
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Community Plugin SDK Compatibility

Can anyone confirm which operating systems the Khoros Community Plugin SDK (i.e. lithium-sdk) is compatible with?  The documentation only mentions Mac OS X and CentOS, and I just confirmed that Windows isn't compatible.  (See attached screenshot)

But what I really want to know is whether CentOS truly is the only Linux distribution that is supported or if others are supported as well.  I was hoping to install the SDK on a system running Ubuntu Server (latest LTS release) but now I'm not sure if it'll be successful and if I need to spin up a docker container or VM instead.

Anyone have any experience around this?  Thanks!!

  • charan's avatar
    charan
    6 years ago

    Thanks for the input. After installed PhantomJS and setting the path,this time the issue is different (EAccess: Permission denied, Mkdir(PATH)).

    I was executed all the command in su mode. 

    Later when i exited from su(SuperUSer) mode to my user mode. Lithium-sdk installed successfully. 

    Thanks Parshantjeffshurtliff   Finally the lithium-sdk installed in ubuntu. 

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  • cjdinger's avatar
    cjdinger
    Leader
    2 months ago

    That's how I use it. It allows me to run the SDK process on Windows. I'm currently using Rancher Desktop as the app to control it, but it should work with any docker.

    I have a colleague who runs the SDK process natively on her Mac, so docker not needed there (but should work if you choose to use it).

  • charan's avatar
    charan
    Guide
    6 years ago

    Thanks for the input. After installed PhantomJS and setting the path,this time the issue is different (EAccess: Permission denied, Mkdir(PATH)).

    I was executed all the command in su mode. 

    Later when i exited from su(SuperUSer) mode to my user mode. Lithium-sdk installed successfully. 

    Thanks Parshantjeffshurtliff   Finally the lithium-sdk installed in ubuntu. 

  • Parshant's avatar
    Parshant
    Boss
    6 years ago

    charan

    This issue is not related to SDK or Gulp, this is something in your connection side or your connection proxy which doesn't allow to download and install phantomJs module lib locally using node.

    You can also do troubleshoot manually follwoing below steps:

    • 1.download phantomjs zip file manually from here
    • 2.unzip the zip file to your disk path as you want
    • 3.set EnvironmentVariable,add 'PhantomJS' to your PATH
  • charan's avatar
    charan
    Guide
    6 years ago

    Parshant 

    After i installed node version 6.4.0 on ubuntu, i hit the same issue PhantomJS path not found and it terminates.  Below are the screenshots, any other way to resolve the issue

  • jeffshurtliff's avatar
    jeffshurtliff
    Boss
    6 years ago

    Thanks Parshant for the confirmation!

    Unfortunately in my case the installation of the lithium-sdk package struggled quite a bit and ended up stalling during the phantomjs installation until it ultimately caused the operating system to become unresponsive and require a reboot.  (See attached)  But there very likely could have been several other factors in place.

    Do you happen to have any tips/tricks for installing it successfully?  e.g. a particular Node.js and/or NPM version, etc.?

    Thanks!!

    lithium-sdk-crash.png