Migrating rocket from standalone to Docker. Meteor requires Node v14.0.0 or later

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Description

I’m trying to move our standalone Rocket.Chat 4.3.1 running on Debian, to a Docker installation but struggle getting success.
If I try to upgrade the existing installation to 4.7.0 prior to attempting a database move, I get stuck with a “Meteor requires Node v14.0.0 or later.”.
Have tried different ways of upgrading nodejs, but I always get this error.

Server Setup Information

Rocket.Chat server Version 4.3.1
Standalone/tar installation
Debian 11
Apps Engine Version: 1.29.1
Node Version: v12.18.4
MongoDB: 5.0.6 / wiredTiger (oplog Enabled)
NodeJS Version: 12.18.4
Proxy: nginx

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Is there really no documentation on how to get a successful upgrade? Surely there’s great interest in supporting as few versions as possible? I just can’t seem to get past this issue :frowning:

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Hey dude!

Found a solution because I was looking for it too. I’m running CENTOS 7.

the system doesnt recreate a symlink between /usr/bin/node and /usr/local/bin/node.

rm -rf /usr/local/bin/node

ls -s /usr/bin/node /usr/local/bin/node

when you go to start the rocketchat service, it performs a ‘$node -v’
this solved my issue

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@Juju8901 Thanks for your assistance.
However, I chose to migrate to Docker-compose as recommended. Now my life will be much-much easier (I hope :grinning:)

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Was it hard?

Currently doing my first install but unfortunately im using RHEL and docker engine is giving a hard time with it.

How is it working for you? Are you using docker for the instance of mongoDB and rocketchat?

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Yes, and it’s working fine. Even an upgrade went smooth (Have not gone to 5.x yet though)