Issue installing on CentOS about terminalizer HOT 11 CLOSED

What is the version of node.js that you use?

node -v

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You probably have a very outdated version of Node far past the official current LTS release, which is 8.x.x.

Most (somewhat outdated) distributions won't come with the current version of Node in their repositories, to give an idea, Ubuntu 16.04 currently comes with Nodejs 4.2.6 and support for the ES let and const bindings were added around the start of version 6 of Node.

Same concept probably applies to CentOS.

If you want to get a more up to date version of Node, I suggest you check out https://github.com/nodesource/distributions#rpminstall for an easy installation process.
To give an idea, you might want to do this :

# Remove currently installed node (package can also be called nodejs in case)
sudo rpm -e node
# Get current LTS
curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | bash -

And what you were trying to do should work.

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Hi Kevin,
Thanks for the response. I installed node 10 last week, as node 8 was not available. I then got this error:
Error:
/usr/lib/node_modules/terminalizer/node_modules/electron/dist/electron: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-3.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Do you have a workaround for this? The only package on CentOS 6.9 with libgtk-3.so in it is Firefox.

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The closest pointer I could give you is this http://itvision.altervista.org/compiling-and-installing-gtk3-in-centos6.html
edit: also i'd personally be a bit wary of this source to be honest at the sight of it

Another option would be to upgrade to Centos7 if viable, it comes with gtk3 support (and systemd).

Also may I ask you what desktop environment you are currently running currently ?

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I heard about terminalizer through a newsletter email that Twilio sent out, and thought it was pretty awesome. I'm realizing that it requires or assumes that I have a desktop environment. This is a dev server i'm installing terminalizer on. I wanted to use the gifs as short tutorials for my dev team. I have image libraries on our web servers, so I assumed this would render a gif, and I could sent it off to my team via link or even the slack API. Maybe not though. :)

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Best alternative I can give without a DE is asciinema, Centos probably has it available in its repositories.
What you can do is record your cast, upload it to the website, then take the link it gives you and append .gif to it.
For instance :
https://asciinema.org/a/170671
becomes
https://asciinema.org/a/170671.gif
And you will be show a page with a docker (so it implies you also have docker installed) command to create a gif of this cast.
The command looks like this (taken from the page above):
docker run --rm -v $PWD:/data asciinema/asciicast2gif https://asciinema.org/a/170671.json demo.gif
It's a nice little trick that works without a DE.

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Thanks Kevin, I'll check that out. Appreciate the help!

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Yes it doesn't support os without GUI for now. Terminalizer is still under development so there are a lot of enhancements we are doing.

Should I close the issue?

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Yes, you can close. Thanks Mohammad. I'll keep an eye out for updates.

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@faressoft you might want to add a requirements section to the README to keep people aware.

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We are waiting Electron to release the feature that allows us to use it without GUI
electron/electron#228

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