Nodejs12 on Debian Buster broken

[HOSTED-POWER]

Version

12.22.4

Platform

Linux 4.19.0-13-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.160-2 (2020-11-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Subsystem

No response

What steps will reproduce the bug?

Using the apt repo for nodejs 12 , trying to install / upgrade the latest version. Output:

apt-get install nodejs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
nodejs : Depends: libgcc-s1 (>= 3.4) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?

Always

What is the expected behavior?

No response

What do you see instead?

apt-get install nodejs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
nodejs : Depends: libgcc-s1 (>= 3.4) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Additional information

No response

[bullet64]

I have same problem with nodejs v14.17.2

:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# node -v
v14.17.2

error

:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt install nodejs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 nodejs : Depends: libgcc-s1 (>= 3.4) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Debian buster has no libgcc-s1. I think, that's the problem.

:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt search libgcc-s1
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done

[richardlau]

This is one for the folks over in https://github.com/nodesource/distributions as we don't maintain the apt repo in the Node.js organization. It looks like others have already reported it in nodesource/distributions#1241.