I'm trying to grade a RPi-3B, running Buster, to Node-RED 2.0.5 After the upgrade Node-RED gives loads of error message, I suspect because nodejs is still v8.17.0 I used this bash script. This is a screen-shot of the update report. [Screen Shot 08-25-21 at 10.06 AM] [Screen Shot 08-25-21 at 10.…

What does the install log show? What does this show? apt policy nodejs

see this thread: [image] [Announce] updated Linux install script General To go along with the v2 beta I have updated the Linux install script to have some more command line switches to hopefully give you more control of what you may want to install as usual you can run it…

I don't think that is the issue, it says it is installing 12 but ends up with 8 so something odd is going on.

pi@RPi_138:~ $ apt policy nodejs E: Invalid operation policy I've just cleared the logs as they are lengthy and will do another install and will then post the log.

[image] dynamicdave: apt policy nodejs E: Invalid operation policy Are you sure you are running Buster?

Hi Colin, I suspect that could be the problem, this is the result of doing lsb_release -a [Screen Shot 08-25-21 at 11.31 AM] I was sure I upgraded Stretch to Buster. I'll go through the steps again.

I always use cat /etc/os-release pi@testpi : ~ $ cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)" NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="10" VERSION="10 (buster)" VERSION_CODENAME=buster ID=raspbian ID_LIKE=debian HOME_URL=" http://www.raspbian.org/ " SUPPORT_URL=" RaspbianForu…

Thanks to everyone who tried to help me yesterday. I spent 3-hrs yesterday whilst the RPi-3B was updating from Stretch to Buster only to be hit with some error messages about pkgs!! If I'd known it was going to take that long I wouldn't have bothered and would have gone immediately to plan-B. Plan…

[image] dynamicdave: would have gone immediately to plan-B. Plan B - Always the better plan in my opinion

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Upgrading RPi-3B to latest version of Node-RED

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see this thread:

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Unable to Install Node_RED Missing node.js, and NPM stops installation Buster 10 General	24	8015	23 February 2022
Install on RPi replaced nodejs with older version General	5	738	2 November 2019
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