Ubuntu manual installation guide wrong

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precisely Following the manual installation of Rocket.Chat for Ubuntu 18.04LTS just throws me errors in journalctl about node things… fuse… fuse/future and whatnot.

I just would like to know why nobody has yet complained about the manual installation guide being outdated/wrong.
Why can’t Rocket.Chat just work out of the box, why is it so insanely complicated and has so many dependencies for specific versions of specific packages?

Server Setup Information

  • Version of Rocket.Chat Server: latest
  • Operating System: Ubuntu 18.04LTS
  • Deployment Method: manual install
  • Number of Running Instances: 1
  • DB Replicaset Oplog: 01
  • NodeJS Version: latest
  • MongoDB Version: latest
  • Proxy: nginx
  • Firewalls involved: -
2

I have a manual installation of Rocket.Chat running on another server (ubuntu 2004, rocketchat 3.7.1, node 12.14.0, mongo 4.0.21, npm 6.13.4) and I dare not updating this one.
I bet every even slightest smallest update will break everything and Rocket.Chat will refuse to work again.

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Just use docker, this is a 3 node cluster. Can simply be changed to 1 node if you want to. Running node applications directly on the OS is asking for trouble.

version: '2'

services:
  rocketchat:
    image: rocketchat/rocket.chat:latest
    command: >
      bash -c
        "for i in `seq 1 30`; do
          node main.js &&
          s=$$? && break || s=$$?;
          echo \"Tried $$i times. Waiting 5 secs...\";
          sleep 5;
        done; (exit $$s)"
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - ./uploads:/app/uploads
    environment:
      - PORT=3000
      - ROOT_URL=http://chat.example.com
      - MONGO_URL=mongodb://rocket:supersecretpassword@rocket-1:27017,rocket-2:27017,rocket-3:27017/rocketchat?authSource=admin&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=primaryPreferred&w=majority
      - MONGO_OPLOG_URL=mongodb://oploguser:supersecretpassword@rocket-1:27017,rocket-2:27017,rocket-3:27017/local?authSource=admin&replicaSet=rs0
      - INSTANCE_IP=172.16.0.2
#      - MAIL_URL=smtp://smtp.email
#       - HTTP_PROXY=http://proxy.domain.com
#       - HTTPS_PROXY=http://proxy.domain.com
    depends_on:
      - mongo
    ports:
      - 172.16.0.2:3000:3000
    extra_hosts:
        - "rocket-1:172.16.0.2"
        - "rocket-2:172.16.0.3"
        - "rocket-3:172.16.0.4"
        - "rocket-proxy:172.16.0.5"

  mongo:
    image: mongo:3.6.9
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
     - /root/mongo/arb:/data/db
     - /root/mongo:/opt/keyfile
    command: mongod --smallfiles --keyFile /opt/keyfile/mongodb-keyfile --replSet rs0 --storageEngine=wiredTiger
    ports:
      - 172.16.0.2:27017:27017
    extra_hosts:
        - "rocket-1:172.16.0.2"
        - "rocket-2:172.16.0.3"
        - "rocket-3:172.16.0.4"
        - "rocket-proxy:172.16.0.5"