can't run make

[iustinian91]

I have followed the installation instructions and when I run make I get this error:
make: *** [Makefile:48: pkg/lib/cockpit-po-plugin.js] Error 129

any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong?

[jelly]

Do you have a few more lines of output, the distro you use and architecture?

[iustinian91]

Yes! I'm running this under Ubuntu 20.04, x64. Here is the entire output:

root@server:~/cockpit-files# make
error: unknown option `no-write-fetch-head'
usage: git fetch [] [ [...]]
or: git fetch []
or: git fetch --multiple [] [( | )...]
or: git fetch --all []

-v, --verbose         be more verbose
-q, --quiet           be more quiet
--all                 fetch from all remotes
--set-upstream        set upstream for git pull/fetch
-a, --append          append to .git/FETCH_HEAD instead of overwriting
--upload-pack <path>  path to upload pack on remote end
-f, --force           force overwrite of local reference
-m, --multiple        fetch from multiple remotes
-t, --tags            fetch all tags and associated objects
-n                    do not fetch all tags (--no-tags)
-j, --jobs <n>        number of submodules fetched in parallel
-p, --prune           prune remote-tracking branches no longer on remote
-P, --prune-tags      prune local tags no longer on remote and clobber changed tags
--recurse-submodules[=<on-demand>]
                      control recursive fetching of submodules
--dry-run             dry run
-k, --keep            keep downloaded pack
-u, --update-head-ok  allow updating of HEAD ref
--progress            force progress reporting
--depth <depth>       deepen history of shallow clone
--shallow-since <time>
                      deepen history of shallow repository based on time
--shallow-exclude <revision>
                      deepen history of shallow clone, excluding rev
--deepen <n>          deepen history of shallow clone
--unshallow           convert to a complete repository
--update-shallow      accept refs that update .git/shallow
--refmap <refmap>     specify fetch refmap
-o, --server-option <server-specific>
                      option to transmit
-4, --ipv4            use IPv4 addresses only
-6, --ipv6            use IPv6 addresses only
--negotiation-tip <revision>
                      report that we have only objects reachable from this object
--filter <args>       object filtering
--auto-gc             run 'gc --auto' after fetching
--show-forced-updates
                      check for forced-updates on all updated branches
--write-commit-graph  write the commit-graph after fetching

make: *** [Makefile:48: pkg/lib/cockpit-po-plugin.js] Error 129

[iustinian91]

I have made some progress. I updated nvm from version 10 to version 18.

I also replaced the this like in the Makefile
git fetch --no-tags --no-write-fetch-head --depth=1 $(COCKPIT_REPO_URL) $(COCKPIT_REPO_COMMIT)
with
git fetch --no-tags --depth=1 $(COCKPIT_REPO_URL) $(COCKPIT_REPO_COMMIT)

Removing --no-write-fetch-head did the trick and finished with 15:58:36: Build finished in 1113 ms.

Now after I've run make install and restarted Cockpit I can't see the Cockpit Files in the sidebar. I have checked /root/.local/share/cockpit/cockpit-files and has the files in it.