Node repository and install script fails on Centos:latest docker container

[robert-marriott]

The script runs and decides that centos 7:latest image is incompatible. Both Node 6.x and 7.x scripts have the same result:

Your distribution, identified as "centos-release-7-3.1611.el7.centos.x86_64", is not currently supported

[chrislea]

Can you please provide the full output of the setup script? Ideally, please download it and run it locally with the -x flag ie:

curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_7.x
chmod 755 setup_7.x
sudo ./setup_7.x -x

Those setup scripts were written assuming they'd be run on "normal" servers, so I'm not sure if being inside a Docker container will cause issues.

[robert-marriott]

Hi, I believe I have identified the issue. I was attempting to install node into the CentOS container behind a corporate network. When using a nonproxied network the script completed without any issues for both Node 6 and 7.

I am unsure why it decided that the "unsupported distribution" shell message was the one to arrive on. Perhaps the environment variables from behind the proxy didn't resolve in the appropriate way.

[chrislea]

Ah, yes, the proxy thing is a known issue. The TLDR is to do:

curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_7.x | sudo -E bash -

The -E makes sudo preserve the environment which gets around the proxy issues.

Glad you got it sorted out either way.