puter/doc/self-hosters/first-run-issues.md

First Run Issues

"Cannot find package '@heyputer/backend'"

Scenario: You see the following output:

┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃  Cannot find package '@heyputer/backend'              ┃
┃  📝 this usually happens if you forget `npm install`  ┃
┃  Suggestions:                                         ┃
┃  - try running `npm install`                          ┃
┃  Technical Notes:                                     ┃
┃  - @heyputer/backend is in an npm workspace           ┃
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛

1. Ensure you have run npm install.
2. Install build essentials for your distro, then run npm install again.

Installing Build Essentials

Debian-based distros

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential

RHEL-family distros (Fedora, Rocky, etc)

sudo dnf groupinstall "Development Tools"

"I use Arch btw"

sudo pacman -S base-devel

Alpine

If you're running in Puter's Alpine image then this is already installed.

sudo apk add build-base

Gentoo

You know what you're doing; you just wanted to see if we mentioned Gentoo.

"Could not load the "sharp" module using the freebsd-x64 runtime"

In order to get it to work on FreeBSD, you will need to build sharp from source and link it to the project.

pkg install vips
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/lovell/sharp.git
cd sharp
yarn install
sudo npm link

After npm install you can link the prebuilt module

# cd puter
# npm install
npm link sharp
npm start