Problem installing Pop Shell on Zorin 16.3

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Hello there!
I'm just trying to install the Pop Shell to Zorin to get the Window tiling feature. Following steps I have done in the Terminal:

  1. sudo apt install git node-typescript make
  2. git clone GitHub - pop-os/shell: Pop!_OS Shell
  3. cd shell
  4. make local-install

During the last step I get the following messages including 3 error-messages:

"
UUID is "pop-shell@system76.com"
depcheck
rm -rf _build target
env PROJECTS="color_dialog floating_exceptions" ./scripts/transpile.sh

  • pwd
  • pwd=/home/boris/shell
  • rm -rf _build
  • mkdir -p _build/color_dialog
  • glib-compile-schemas schemas
  • tsc --p src/color_dialog
  • mkdir -p _build/floating_exceptions
  • tsc --p src/floating_exceptions
  • tsc
    src/paths.ts:2:12 - error TS1343: The 'import.meta' meta-property is only allowed when the '--module' option is 'esnext' or 'system'.

2 return import.meta.url.split('://')[1].split('/').slice(0, -1).join('/');
~~~~~~~~~~~

tsconfig.json:18:29 - error TS6046: Argument for '--moduleResolution' option must be: 'node', 'classic'.

18 "moduleResolution": "NodeNext",
~~~~~~~~~~

tsconfig.json:19:19 - error TS6046: Argument for '--module' option must be: 'none', 'commonjs', 'amd', 'system', 'umd', 'es6', 'es2015', 'es2020', 'esnext'.

19 "module": "NodeNext"
~~~~~~~~~~

Found 3 errors.

make: *** [Makefile:38: compile] Fehler 2
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I don't know, what went wrong here. Is someone able to help?

Thanks in advance!

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Hi and welcome to the ZorinOS forum!

Those are TypeScript errors, probably due to an unsupported version of Node.js and/or TypeScript compiler being used. Run node -v on a terminal window to check your current version, anything below 18 is unsupported.

If that is the case I would strongly suggest to remove your current installation of both TypeScript and Node.js and re-install it again. To remove them:

sudo npm remove typescript
sudo apt purge nodejs

Here are some general instructions on how to install it:

  1. Install Node.js following these instructions from the official documentation.

  2. Install TypeScript for the current user (for safety and convenience is best to avoid installing packages globally):

    mkdir ~/.npm-global
npm config set prefix '~/.npm-global'

# Make sure to add this to your `~/.profile` or `~/.bashrc` to ensure this location is always available, not only during this terminal session.
export PATH=~/.npm-global/bin:$PATH

npm install -g typescript

    Please do not use node-typescript as it's severely outdated (last updated 11 years ago).

  3. Download the appropriate branch of the pop-shell repository. Since ZorinOS 16 is based off of Ubuntu 20.04, you need to use the Jammy branch:

    git clone --branch master_jammy https://github.com/pop-os/shell.git

  4. Switch to the downloaded repository and install:

    cd shell
make local-install

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Thank you so much for your great and detailed help! :smiley: :+1:
Everything worked and pop shell runs.

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If you have added pop-os repository to your software sources to achive this, once you are done with installing, I suggest you remove that repository to avoid future grief with Pop-OS updates messing with your ZorinOS. See this:

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