ZOWE CLI - full list of pre-reqs

[John Barrett]

Is there a full list of specific pre-reqs for ZOWE CLI (client side), e.g. specific versions of NPM etc. 

THere appears to be nothing of note on : System requirements | Zowe Docs

Alternatively do we have to rely on info from the NPM sire : @zowe/cli

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Specific challenge we have at the moment. 

Client server : RHEL but only version 7 (i.e. 'paleolithic' !) 

ZOWE CLI requires NPM 8.x.x  

We understand that RHEL 7 only works up to NPM version 6.14.12 

[Adam Wolfe]

Hi John,

There is some more information on Zowe CLI system requirements available here: https://docs.zowe.org/stable/user-guide/cli-using-usingcli

Supported versions of RHEL are 8 and above. As a side note, the NPM version requirement on this page may need to be updated.

Zowe CLI supports LTS versions of Node.js that are active or maintenance (currently, these are Node 18 and Node 20). A release schedule is available here: Node Previous Releases. For NPM 6.14.12, the corresponding version of Node.js appears to be either 14.x.x or 12.x.x, both of which are no longer supported LTS versions of Node.js.

Regards,

Adam Wolfe