Error Installing Forem on Linux "installing libv8 (8.4.255.0), and Bundler cannot continue"

[lucidkit]

Can't able to install forem on Linux (Ubuntu 18.04 with 8GB RAM), Since last 2 days I have been trying to install forem on VPS but unfortunately, I can't able to successfully install it.

I have followed everything described on official docs https://docs.dev.to/installation/linux/

Since forem, doesn't have any version, so I have forked everything on the repository as per today 9.01.2021
Installed ruby-version: version 2.7.2
Installed Elasticsearch: version 7.5.2

when try to run "bin/setup", the following error occurs:

Error: Command 'vpython third_party/depot_tools/update_depot_tools_toggle.py --disable' returned non-zero exit status 1 in
/home/reez/.rbenv/versions/2.7.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/libv8-8.4.255.0/vendor

An error occurred while installing libv8 (8.4.255.0), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that 'gem install libv8 -v '8.4.255.0' --source 'https://rubygems.org/'' succeeds before bundling.

The full error message is:

Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
 current directory: /home/reez/.rbenv/versions/2.7.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/libv8-8.4.255.0/ext/libv8
/home/reez/.rbenv/versions/2.7.2/bin/ruby -I /home/reez/.rbenv/versions/2.7.2/lib/ruby/2.7.0 -r ./siteconf20210109-21924-us44pb.rb extconf.rb
creating Makefile
WARNING: Your metrics.cfg file was invalid or nonexistent. A new one will be created.
....
....
....
`
`[0:03:05] Still working on:
[0:03:05]   v8
________ running 'vpython third_party/depot_tools/update_depot_tools_toggle.py --disable' in
'/home/reez/.rbenv/versions/2.7.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/libv8-8.4.255.0/vendor'
/home/reez/.rbenv/versions/2.7.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/libv8-8.4.255.0/vendor/depot_tools/.cipd_bin/.cipd/pkgs/0/fI6WggdkRyN1r91MnTeApc2_gyTtXfYpueHZVLcaF8gC/vpython:
could not resolve options: failed to resolve Python script: stat
/home/reez/.rbenv/versions/2.7.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/libv8-8.4.255.0/vendor/third_party/depot_tools/update_depot_tools_toggle.py: no such file or
directory
Error: Command 'vpython third_party/depot_tools/update_depot_tools_toggle.py --disable' returned non-zero exit status 1 in
/home/reez/.rbenv/versions/2.7.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/libv8-8.4.255.0/vendor
Running: gclient root
Running: gclient config --spec 'solutions = [
  {
    "name": "v8",
    "url": "https://chromium.googlesource.com/v8/v8.git",
    "deps_file": "DEPS",
    "managed": False,
    "custom_deps": {},
  },
]
'
Running: gclient sync --with_branch_heads
Subprocess failed with return code 2.
/home/reez/.rbenv/versions/2.7.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/libv8-8.4.255.0/ext/libv8/builder.rb:83:in `block in setup_build_deps!': unable to fetch v8 source
(RuntimeError)
	from /home/reez/.rbenv/versions/2.7.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/libv8-8.4.255.0/ext/libv8/builder.rb:81:in `chdir'
	from /home/reez/.rbenv/versions/2.7.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/libv8-8.4.255.0/ext/libv8/builder.rb:81:in `setup_build_deps!'
	from /home/reez/.rbenv/versions/2.7.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/libv8-8.4.255.0/ext/libv8/builder.rb:40:in `build_libv8!'
	from /home/reez/.rbenv/versions/2.7.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/libv8-8.4.255.0/ext/libv8/location.rb:24:in `install!'
	from extconf.rb:7:in `<main>'

extconf failed, exit code 1
Gem files will remain installed in /home/reez/.rbenv/versions/2.7.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/libv8-8.4.255.0 for inspection.
Results logged to /home/reez/.rbenv/versions/2.7.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.7.0/libv8-8.4.255.0/gem_make.out

An error occurred while installing libv8 (8.4.255.0), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install libv8 -v '8.4.255.0' --source 'https://rubygems.org/'` succeeds before bundling.

In Gemfile:
  mini_racer was resolved to 0.3.1, which depends on
    libv8

== Command ["bundle install"] failed ==

So I googled the issues and I tried everything

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27875073/an-error-occurred-while-installing-libv8-3-16-14-7-and-bundler-cannot-continu#answer-62413041
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19673714/error-installing-libv8-error-failed-to-build-gem-native-extension#answer-19674065
https://gist.github.com/fernandoaleman/868b64cd60ab2d51ab24e7bf384da1ca

but I could able to resolve.

According to this rubyjs/libv8#310 (comment), I have tried downgrading bundler

gem install bundler -v 2.1.4

Still, it doesn't solve.

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[f2k2game]

I too had same problem, You might have two installed bundle version, uninstall 2.2.4

>> gem uninstall bundler

Gem bundler-2.1.4 cannot be uninstalled because it is a default gem
Select gem to uninstall:
 1. bundler-2.1.4
 2. bundler-2.2.4
 3. All versions

>> 2

Successfully uninstalled bundler-2.2.4

>> bundle --version

Bundler version 2.1.4

[lucidkit]

I too had same problem, You might have two installed bundle version, uninstall 2.2.4

>> gem uninstall bundler

Gem bundler-2.1.4 cannot be uninstalled because it is a default gem
Select gem to uninstall:
 1. bundler-2.1.4
 2. bundler-2.2.4
 3. All versions

>> 2

Successfully uninstalled bundler-2.2.4

>> bundle --version

Bundler version 2.1.4

Thanks, it worked

[rhymes]

Closing this as the author marked it solved