Debian buster compatibility?

PeerTube
1

Hello,

Is peertube compatible with debian buster ?
Anything to know before upgrading from stretch to buster ?

Best regards.

2

Hello,

We just upgraded the server of https://peertube.cpy.re. It seems to run well on Buster. You just need to follow four extra steps:

First, before the upgrade, to tell Debian to always use NodeJs from nodejs repository, put this in /etc/apt/preferences.d/00Pinning:

Package: nodejs*
Pin: origin deb.nodesource.com
Pin-Priority: 900

Then, change /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list from

deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_8.x stretch main

to

deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_10.x buster main

(don’t worry, PeerTube is compatible with NodeJs10)

After the upgrade (and a reboot), upgrade your PostgreSQL cluster to version 11. If you can read french, you can look at https://wiki.fiat-tux.fr/admin:bdd:pgsql:migration-version-majeure. If you can’t read french, sorry, I didn’t found instructions in english.
It’s basically (use this at your own risks, since there is no explanation here):

pg_dropcluster --stop 11 main
pg_upgradecluster -m dump 9.6 main

Then test and if it works, you can remove PostgreSQL 9.6:

pg_dropcluster 9.6 main --stop
apt-get autoremove --purge postgresql-9.6

If you use pg_upgradecluster -m upgrade 9.6 main instead of -m dump, you have to do sudo -u postgres reindexdb --all right after it (you may need to start PostgreSQL before the reindexation).

Finally, reinstall the js modules:

sudo systemctl stop peertube && cd /var/www/peertube/peertube-latest/ && sudo -u peertube rm -r node_modules/ && sudo -u peertube yarn install --pure-lockfile && sudo systemctl start peertube

My advice: stop and disable peertube before the upgrade, then enable it after all the extra steps (the fourth one will start it):

# before the upgrade
systemctl stop peertube
systemctl disable peertube
# after the upgrade and all extra steps
systemctl enable peertube
3

Thanks for your answer !
(and yes, I can read french)

4

Hi,

i recently tried to install peertube 3.0.1 on debian 10, but it could when starting peertube, with these lines in journaled:

  > peertube@3.0.1 start /var/www/peertube/versions/peertube-v3.0.1
  > node dist/server
  internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:638
      throw err;
      ^
  Error: Cannot find module 'tslib'
      at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:636:15)
      at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:562:25)
      at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:692:17)
      at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:25:18)
      at Object.<anonymous> (/var/www/peertube/versions/peertube-v3.0.1/dist/server.js:3:17)
      at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:30)
      at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:789:10)
      at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:653:32)
      at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:593:12)
      at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:585:3)
  npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
  npm ERR! errno 1
  npm ERR! peertube@3.0.1 start: `node dist/server`

So at first a was running on NodeJS 12, switched back to 10, according to this posting, but that didn’t help either.

So i’m a little sceptical, if debian is the right plattform or maybe i switch back to ubuntu-server 20.04.

But in case there’s is someone here from dev, please have a look at it, maybe there’s an easy fix for porting peertube to debian.

Best regards

Steini

5

I’m running Peertube without problem on debian buster since 2019.

6

Hello,

Please reinstall PeerTube using https://docs.joinpeertube.org/install-any-os. It seems you missed a step