Error when building Thingsboard UI from source in Ubuntu

Hi,

I’ve been trying to build Thingsboard versions 2.2.0, 2.3.1 or 2.4.0 on Ubuntu 18.04 (also tested Debian or CentOS) but I get a failure when building Thingsboard Server UI.

I saw in several posts that this is a common issue(even in early versions). I tried to test all potential solutions but nothing worked.

Does anybody knows what is failing and what the solution is?

Please take a look at the log below, but it is similar to others posted.

Thanks in advance!

[INFO] -------------------------< org.thingsboard:ui >------------------------- [INFO] Building Thingsboard Server UI 2.2.0 [20/32] [INFO] --------------------------------[ jar ]--------------------------------- [INFO] [INFO] — maven-clean-plugin:2.5:clean (default-clean) @ ui — [INFO] [INFO] — frontend-maven-plugin:1.0:install-node-and-npm (install node and npm) @ ui — [INFO] Installing node version v6.9.1 [INFO] Unpacking /home/ubuntu/.m2/repository/com/github/eirslett/node/6.9.1/node-6.9.1-linux-x64.tar.gz into /home/ubuntu/thingsboard-2.2/ui/target/node/tmp [INFO] Copying node binary from /home/ubuntu/thingsboard-2.2/ui/target/node/tmp/node-v6.9.1-linux-x64/bin/node to /home/ubuntu/thingsboard-2.2/ui/target/node/node [INFO] Installed node locally. [INFO] Installing npm version 6.4.1 [INFO] Unpacking /home/ubuntu/.m2/repository/com/github/eirslett/npm/6.4.1/npm-6.4.1.tar.gz into /home/ubuntu/thingsboard-2.2/ui/target/node/node_modules [INFO] Installed npm locally. [INFO] [INFO] — frontend-maven-plugin:1.0:npm (npm install) @ ui — [INFO] Running ‘npm install’ in /home/ubuntu/thingsboard-2.2/ui [INFO] [INFO] > node-sass@4.10.0 install /home/ubuntu/thingsboard-2.2/ui/node_modules/node-sass [INFO] > node scripts/install.js [INFO] [INFO] Cached binary found at /home/ubuntu/.npm/node-sass/4.10.0/linux-x64-48_binding.node [INFO] [INFO] > gifsicle@3.0.4 postinstall /home/ubuntu/thingsboard-2.2/ui/node_modules/gifsicle [INFO] > node lib/install.js [INFO] [ERROR] ✔ gifsicle pre-build test passed successfully [INFO] [INFO] > jpegtran-bin@3.2.0 postinstall /home/ubuntu/thingsboard-2.2/ui/node_modules/jpegtran-bin [INFO] > node lib/install.js [INFO] [ERROR] ✔ jpegtran pre-build test passed successfully [INFO] [INFO] > optipng-bin@3.1.4 postinstall /home/ubuntu/thingsboard-2.2/ui/node_modules/optipng-bin [INFO] > node lib/install.js [INFO] [ERROR] ✔ optipng pre-build test passed successfully [INFO] [INFO] > pngquant-bin@4.0.0 postinstall /home/ubuntu/thingsboard-2.2/ui/node_modules/pngquant-bin [INFO] > node lib/install.js [INFO] [ERROR] ⚠ The /home/ubuntu/thingsboard-2.2/ui/node_modules/pngquant-bin/vendor/pngquant binary doesn’t seem to work correctly [ERROR] ⚠ pngquant pre-build test failed [ERROR] ℹ compiling from source [ERROR] ✔ pngquant pre-build test passed successfully [ERROR] ✖ Error: pngquant failed to build, make sure that libpng-dev is installed [ERROR] at Promise.all.then.arr (/home/ubuntu/thingsboard-2.2/ui/node_modules/pngquant-bin/node_modules/bin-build/node_modules/execa/index.js:231:11) [ERROR] at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:103:7) [WARNING] npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@1.2.4 (node_modules/fsevents): [WARNING] npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.2.4: wanted {“os”:“darwin”,“arch”:“any”} (current: {“os”:“linux”,“arch”:“x64”}) [ERROR] [ERROR] npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE [ERROR] npm ERR! errno 1 [ERROR] npm ERR! pngquant-bin@4.0.0 postinstall: node lib/install.js [ERROR] npm ERR! Exit status 1 [ERROR] npm ERR! [ERROR] npm ERR! Failed at the pngquant-bin@4.0.0 postinstall script. [ERROR] npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above. [ERROR] [ERROR] npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: [ERROR] npm ERR! /home/ubuntu/.npm/_logs/2019-08-12T21_33_19_792Z-debug.log [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Reactor Summary for Thingsboard 2.2.0: [INFO] [INFO] Thingsboard … SUCCESS [ 1.843 s] [INFO] Netty MQTT Client … SUCCESS [ 5.039 s] [INFO] Thingsboard Server Commons … SUCCESS [ 0.088 s] [INFO] Thingsboard Server Common Data … SUCCESS [ 5.908 s] [INFO] Thingsboard Server Common Messages … SUCCESS [ 2.948 s] [INFO] Thingsboard Server Queue components … SUCCESS [ 1.363 s] [INFO] Thingsboard Server Commons … SUCCESS [ 0.041 s] [INFO] Thingsboard Server Common Transport components … SUCCESS [ 8.649 s] [INFO] Thingsboard MQTT Transport Common … SUCCESS [ 1.570 s] [INFO] Thingsboard HTTP Transport Common … SUCCESS [ 0.555 s] [INFO] Thingsboard CoAP Transport Common … SUCCESS [ 0.735 s] [INFO] Thingsboard Server DAO Layer … SUCCESS [ 11.878 s] [INFO] Thingsboard Extensions … SUCCESS [ 0.058 s] [INFO] Thingsboard Rule Engine API … SUCCESS [ 0.847 s] [INFO] Thingsboard Rule Engine Components … SUCCESS [ 5.882 s] [INFO] Thingsboard Server Transport Modules … SUCCESS [ 0.044 s] [INFO] Thingsboard HTTP Transport Service … SUCCESS [ 8.993 s] [INFO] Thingsboard MQTT Transport Service … SUCCESS [ 7.171 s] [INFO] Thingsboard CoAP Transport Service … SUCCESS [ 6.238 s] [INFO] Thingsboard Server UI … FAILURE [01:07 min] [INFO] Thingsboard Server Tools … SKIPPED [INFO] ThingsBoard Server Application … SKIPPED [INFO] ThingsBoard Microservices … SKIPPED [INFO] ThingsBoard Docker Images … SKIPPED [INFO] ThingsBoard JavaScript Executor Microservice … SKIPPED [INFO] ThingsBoard Web UI Microservice … SKIPPED [INFO] ThingsBoard Node Microservice … SKIPPED [INFO] ThingsBoard Transport Microservices … SKIPPED [INFO] ThingsBoard MQTT Transport Microservice … SKIPPED [INFO] ThingsBoard HTTP Transport Microservice … SKIPPED [INFO] ThingsBoard COAP Transport Microservice … SKIPPED [INFO] ThingsBoard Black Box Tests … SKIPPED [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 02:19 min [INFO] Finished at: 2019-08-12T21:33:19Z [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] Failed to execute goal com.github.eirslett:frontend-maven-plugin:1.0:npm (npm install) on project ui: Failed to run task: ‘npm install’ failed. (error code 1) -> [Help 1] [ERROR] [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch. [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging. [ERROR] [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles: [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoFailureException [ERROR] [ERROR] After correcting the problems, you can resume the build with the command [ERROR] mvn <goals> -rf :ui

[techfriendly]

Hi all,

I finally checked required commands to build TB properly. I hope this helps other people with the same issue:

1. sudo apt-get update
2. sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk
3. sudo apt-get install libpng-dev
4. sudo apt-get install maven
5. sudo apt install nodejs
6. sudo apt install npm
7. git clone https://github.com/thingsboard/thingsboard.git
8. cd thingsboard
9. git checkout release-2.4
10. sudo npm install -g pkg
11. mvn clean install -DskipTests

On the other side, please be aware that I tested it in an UBUNTU 18,04 LTS AMI image of AWS on a t3a.medium machine (a t3a.small collapses… maybe due to having only 2Gb of RAM).

Thanks for your help

[zbxzxx]

os:ubuntu 16

the same as i 1.i find i haved change the npm source , i use https://registry.npm.taobao.org/ u can check your registry npm config get registry then i use commond npm config set registry https://registry.npmjs.org/ to change my registry to default registry then i entey directry thingsboard/ui rm -rf node_modules/*/.git/ then it works. wish help u