Getting LibreChat running locally

[mattmueller-stripe]

What happened?

First of all, thanks for creating this project!

I'm following the development docs

But getting stuck on

npm ci

With the following error:

npm ERR! path ~/LibreChat/node_modules/mongodb-memory-server
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c node ./postinstall.js
npm ERR! Mongodb-Memory-Server* checking MongoDB binaries
npm ERR! Downloading MongoDB "7.0.14": 0% (0mb / 65.4mb)
npm ERR! Downloading MongoDB "7.0.14": 51% (33.4mb / 65.4mb)
npm ERR! Downloading MongoDB "7.0.14": 100% (65.4mb / 65.4mb)
npm ERR! node:internal/process/promises:288
npm ERR!             triggerUncaughtException(err, true /* fromPromise */);
npm ERR!             ^
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! [Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename '~/LibreChat/node_modules/.cache/mongodb-memory-server/mongodb-macos-arm64-7.0.14.tgz.downloading' -> '~/LibreChat/node_modules/.cache/mongodb-memory-server/mongodb-macos-arm64-7.0.14.tgz'] {
npm ERR!   errno: -2,
npm ERR!   code: 'ENOENT',
npm ERR!   syscall: 'rename',
npm ERR!   path: '~/LibreChat/node_modules/.cache/mongodb-memory-server/mongodb-macos-arm64-7.0.14.tgz.downloading',
npm ERR!   dest: '~/LibreChat/node_modules/.cache/mongodb-memory-server/mongodb-macos-arm64-7.0.14.tgz'
npm ERR! }
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Node.js v18.14.0

Any ideas? Thanks!

Version Information

bef5c26

Also tried a few version of Node

• v18.14.0
• v20.19.4

Steps to Reproduce

git clone https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat
cd LibreChat
npm ci

What browsers are you seeing the problem on?

No response

Relevant log output

See logs above

Screenshots

No response

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct

[wesselhuising]

Same here!

[danny-avila]

On v20.19.4, try running npm run reinstall. If it fails once, try it a second time.

[danny-avila]

Also what OS are you attempting this from? It's working on Linux, and Windows that I've tested. Will test on a mac soon.

but I think likely npm cached the package giving you issue on v18, so npm run reinstall should help clear it.

[fansollo22]

MacOS Sequoia 15.5, encountering the same issue. Ran initially on node 20.19.2 but switched to 20.19.4 and still encountering the same issue. npm run reinstall causes the same error.

[danny-avila]

macOS Sequoia 15.3.2 (24D81) on Apple M3 working for me. I will see if I can resolve the package issue.

[fansollo22]

M1 here, the solution below worked as i ran MONGOMS_ARCH=x64 npm run reinstall .

[bakl]

Same here!

Found workaround:

env MONGOMS_ARCH=x64 npm i

[fansollo22]

Not working on my side. What worked was env MONGOMS_ARCH=x64 npm run reinstall.

[mattmueller-stripe]

MONGOMS_ARCH=x64 npm ci worked for me on M1 Mac!

Thanks everyone!

[danny-avila]

let me know if you still need this after the latest commits on main!