Precompiling fails with exception using procedure from official wiki

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Hello everyone!
I’m following the procedure from the official wiki to make a diaspora pod out of a Raspberry Pi 3:
https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Installation/Debian/Jessie?db=mariadb&mode=production
However, when I get to the precompiling part, I get an exception. You can find the stack trace here: https://tdd1.ddns.net/nextcloud/s/oGXmf7faLJmGMEX
I am using the latest release of Raspbian, which is based on Debian 9.

Let me know how I can help.

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It looks like execjs is failing. Do you have “one of the JavaScript runtimes on execjs’ supported list”? The wiki tells you to install nodejs.

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Thanks for your help, yes nodejs is installed:

diaspora@tdd1:~ $ apt list nodejs
Listing... Done
nodejs/stable,now 4.8.2~dfsg-1 armhf [installed]
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I tried to repeat the installation from scratch, but unfortunately I incur in the same error.
At the end of the trace log, I get repated mentions of “sprocket” and “sprocket-rails”- I know nothing of Ruby, I guess they’re libraries which somehow fail to compile?

I report here the last two lines of the trace:

...
/home/diaspora/diaspora/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sprockets-3.7.1/lib/rake/sprocketstask.rb:147:in `with_logger'
/home/diaspora/diaspora/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sprockets-rails-3.2.1/lib/sprockets/rails/task.rb:67:in `block (2 levels) in define'
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I don’t know if nodejs 4.x is enough, I have nodejs 6.x on my pod (which is also already pretty old, but still supported), so you could try with a newer nodejs version.