code-server/doc/npm.md
Anmol Sethi 11d7932968
Stop bundling libraries in release
- Instead we now use CentOS 7 for the static build to guarantee
  that we only depend on libc v2.17

- For macOS we now pull in a static node binary and bundle that instead.
2020-06-03 15:45:16 -04:00

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npm Install Requirements

If you're installing the npm module you'll need certain dependencies to build the native modules used by VS Code.

You also need at least node v12 installed. See #1633.

Ubuntu, Debian

sudo apt-get install -y \
  build-essential \
  pkg-config \
  libx11-dev \
  libxkbfile-dev \
  libsecret-1-dev

Fedora, CentOS, RHEL

sudo yum groupinstall -y 'Development Tools'
sudo yum config-manager --set-enabled PowerTools # unnecessary on CentOS 7
sudo yum install -y python2 libsecret-devel libX11-devel libxkbfile-devel
npm config set python python2

macOS

Install Xcode and run:

xcode-select --install