Installation of libv8-dev/libnode-dev on ubuntu 20.04

[nbbn]

Hi, I try to install V8 R package. According to docs of this package, I need: On Debian / Ubuntu install either libv8-dev or libnode-dev. Unfortunately those packages are not available at your repo and to install them I have to remove nodejs package

I tried to install manually to point to v8.h: R CMD INSTALL --no-multiarch --configure-vars="INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/node" "V8-3.1.0" and it was fine, but I stopped on next missing file: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lv8_libplatform

Any idea how I can fix it? Maybe you can add those packages to your repo or I can install this files another way? Installing node from source is not an option for me :(

[stla]

Hi, maybe this can help: https://github.com/jeroen/V8/issues/100

[FoamScience]

I need libv8 version 9.1 for a vscode extension, which is not provided by libnode-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 Any options to get it (other that building from source?)

[JesusPaz]

Unfortunately, we only generate the package for the versions with active Node.js support.