Failed to start ceramic node with ceramic daemon

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I want to try out the CLI and I was using the following 2 guides:

Based on these I did the following steps on Ubuntu 22.04.1:

  1. Install node, npm, nvm
  2. Install node v14 (npm v6 ← this is automatic ofc)
  3. npm install -g @ceramicnetwork/cli
  4. ceramic daemon

I got the following error:
Error message:
/home/ubuntu/.nvm/versions/node/v14.21.2/lib/node_modules/@ceramicnetwork/cli/node_modules/it-parallel/index.js:15
const CustomEvent = globalThis.CustomEvent || Event
^

ReferenceError: Event is not defined
at Object. (/home/ubuntu/.nvm/versions/node/v14.21.2/lib/node_modules/@ceramicnetwork/cli/node_modules/it-parallel/index.js:15:47)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1085:14)
at Object.Module._extensions…js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1114:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:950:32)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:790:12)
at ModuleWrap. (internal/modules/esm/translators.js:203:29)
at ModuleJob.run (internal/modules/esm/module_job.js:183:25)
at async Loader.import (internal/modules/esm/loader.js:178:24)
at async file:///home/ubuntu/.nvm/versions/node/v14.21.2/lib/node_modules/@ceramicnetwork/cli/bin/ceramic.js:3:1

What is the solution for this?

2

Hey @mdot, thanks for the post.

Those docs are slightly outdated. Can you please upgrade to Node v16?

3

thanks, that worked. Which docs should I use moving forward to avoid problems like this?

4

OK, good to know that it worked.

Let me double check with the team and get back to you about the latest docs.

5

Hey @mdot, you were looking at the latest docs, they just needed to be updated. Fixed now!

Please don’t hesitate to report any other issues you find, we’d really appreciate it!

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