Can't Install specific version of sfdx on linux

[yippie]

Summary

For our CI process, we have SFDX pinned to a specific version (49.10.0) because salesforcedx plugin updates keep breaking our CI process so we want something stable.

However, as of mid last week, installation of [email protected] is failing with no error given.

Steps To Reproduce:

1. Have a linux machine
   (ous) Kernel Version: Linux 2f93efba8fff 4.15.0-1077-aws force:apex:test:run in JWT context seems to rely on the jwtkeyfile always being present #81-Ubuntu SMP x86_64 Linux
2. Install SFDX with the following commands:
   mkdir sfdx wget -qO- $DX_CLI_URL | tar xJ -C sfdx --strip-components 1 ./sfdx/install sfdx sfdx plugins --core sfdx plugins:install [email protected]

Expected result

salesforcedx plugin vesion 49.10.0 is installed

Actual result

Install fails and exits with exit code 1 and the following output:

sfdx plugins:install [email protected]
Successfully validated digital signature for salesforcedx.
Finished digital signature check.
Installing plugin salesforcedx... yarn add v1.22.10
Installing plugin salesforcedx... info No lockfile found.Installing plugin salesforcedx... [1/4] Resolving packages...Installing plugin salesforcedx... [2/4] Fetching packages...Installing plugin salesforcedx... info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/add for documentation about this command.Installing plugin salesforcedx... !

Additional information

SFDX CLI Version(to find the version of the CLI engine run sfdx --version):
sfdx-cli/7.81.0-7b953c80d1 linux-x64 node-v12.18.3

SFDX plugin Version(to find the version of the CLI plugin run sfdx plugins --core)
sfdx plugins --core
@oclif/plugin-autocomplete 0.1.5 (core)
@oclif/plugin-commands 1.3.0 (core)
@oclif/plugin-help 3.2.0 (core)
@oclif/plugin-not-found 1.2.4 (core)
@oclif/plugin-plugins 1.9.1 (core)
@oclif/plugin-update 1.3.10 (core)
@oclif/plugin-warn-if-update-available 1.7.0 (core)
@oclif/plugin-which 1.0.3 (core)
@salesforce/sfdx-trust 3.4.3 (core)
alias 1.1.3 (core)
analytics 1.12.1 (core)
auth 1.3.0 (core)
config 1.2.1 (core)
generator 1.1.3 (core)
salesforcedx 50.6.0 (core)
├─ schema 1.0.1 (core)
├─ @salesforce/sfdx-plugin-lwc-test 0.1.7 (core)
├─ templates 50.1.0 (core)
├─ custom-metadata 1.0.10 (core)
├─ apex 0.1.4 (core)
└─ salesforce-alm 50.6.0 (core)
sfdx-cli 7.81.0 (core)

OS and version:
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="9"
VERSION="9 (stretch)"
VERSION_CODENAME=stretch

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[yippie]

Some more info:
yarn global add sfdx-cli

Fails with:

error [email protected]: The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version ">=14". Got "12.20.0"
error Found incompatible module.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/global for documentation about this command.

This is very unexpected as sfdx reports to use 12.18.3 internally and we have been using the docker image circleci/node:12 for ages now. The errors do seem to correspond with the image being upgraded to node 12.20 though.

[johnzhao9]

Running into the same issue here, we were on 49.9.2 for the same reason

[thvd]

Isn't this a duplicate of #746?

[yippie]

@thvd Not completely as I experienced the issue even after upgrading to Node14. Upgrading to Node14 does NOT fix the issue

[shetzel]

@yippie That's because the antlr lib also changed the location of their index. Can you please try installing the latest-rc tag (which will become latest tomorrow morning)? If that doesn't work please re-open this issue.

[asegura-copado]

@shetzel Are there any working links to download specific versions instead of the latest?