Couchbase with Nextjs - Could not find native build for platform=linux

Node.js SDK
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I’ve tried everything including a 20-bullseye-slim Docker image and just can’t get it. Before attempting Docker, I was just running on a Debian 12 VM. I’ve tried multiple node versions, obviously starting with --lts. I tried to install with npm install couchbase

This is the error I’m getting: ⨯ Error: Could not find native build for platform=linux, arch=x64, runtime=napi, nodeVersion=20.19.2, sslType=openssl3, libc=linux loaded from /app/[project]/node_modules/couchbase/dist.

I’ve read some other posts, but the proposed solutions aren’t working. Any help here is appreciated!

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Just to help others out, I’ve played with the official nextjs/couchbase demo (git clone) and was puzzled that it was working while mine had issues with the native build. I came to realize that they’re on v4.2.4. I haven’t trialed other versions, but I did nvm install 20 and set the Couchbase version in package.json to 4.2.4, and have had success. I will need to do some digging to determine if there’s any security ramifications for doing this, but for those of you trying to get things off the ground, I hope this helps.