npm install option asks for Depracated npm v8.x and even then does not work

[guysoft]

Hey, The README says:

Method 2: npm

If you have Node.js installed (recommended v8.x), you can easily install Orca using npm as:

When installing nodejs v8 I get:

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                              DEPRECATION WARNING                            

  Node.js 8.x LTS Carbon is no longer actively supported!

  You will not receive security or critical stability updates for this version.

  You should migrate to a supported version of Node.js as soon as possible.
  Use the installation script that corresponds to the version of Node.js you
  wish to install. e.g.

   * https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x — Node.js 10 LTS "Dubnium"
   * https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x — Node.js 12 LTS "Erbium" (recommended)
   * https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x — Node.js 14 LTS "Fermium"

What version would orca work with on NodeJS?

Also, when installing I get:

$ sudo npm install -g [email protected] orca
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: use String.prototype.padStart()
/usr/bin/electron -> /usr/lib/node_modules/electron/cli.js
/usr/bin/orca -> /usr/lib/node_modules/orca/bin/orca.js

> [email protected] postinstall /usr/lib/node_modules/electron
> node install.js

/usr/lib/node_modules/electron/install.js:53
  throw err
  ^

Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/lib/node_modules/electron/.electron'
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] postinstall: `node install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/seluser/.npm/_logs/2020-07-14T17_08_54_545Z-debug.log

I am trying to install using node because I want to use it headless in docker in an existing image I have. Appimage is causing issues because there is no fuse option, and extracting the Appimage yields scripts that break.

[antoinerg]

It should work with newer version of node as well. However, the installation process can be difficult so we'll be replacing Orca with the new Kaleido project (https://github.com/plotly/Kaleido) which is significantly easier to install in docker containers and is our new recommended way forward for this kind of thing :)