Somehow the build process stupidly tries to use linux-x64 flavour of esbuild on a Raspberry Pi 3B+, so it fails.

[rwperrott]

I tried to build this, as per the readme.md instructions, in my case on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ with a fresh install of 2024-07-04-raspios-bookworm-arm64 on it, but somehow it keeps picking the wrong kind of esbuild, linux-x64 rather than linux-amd64, so the build fails. I tried all the suggestions in the long fail message, but none worked.

I don't need this node.js glitch hassle, so am using the latest deb for https://github.com/45Drives/cockpit-navigator on both my Raspberry Pi (arm64) and my Debian bookworm PCs, because it just works, including user/group changes and cut & paste of files.

[martinpitt]

I suppose you meant linux-arm64, not -amd64? we actually do ship the -wasm variant for building on non-x86 architectures, but esbuild somehow doesn't like that. You need to rm -r node_modules; npm install before building to work around that.

Alternatively: You can totally build this deb on x86 and then use it on ARM -- it's Archtitecture: all.

I uploaded cockpit-files to Debian one month ago, and I hope that at some point it will be reviewed/accepted -- then it can be installed as a normal deb.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

[allisonkarlitskaya]

This is a known issue (which you might have searched for → #609) and GitHub isn't a forum for obnoxious ranting.