npm install fails

[jfoxworth]

• Downloaded the latest version from the site
• ran npm install
• Got this error ...

npm ERR! code ERESOLVE
npm ERR! ERESOLVE unable to resolve dependency tree
npm ERR!
npm ERR! While resolving: now-ui-react-native@1.5.0
npm ERR! Found: @react-navigation/native@6.0.10
npm ERR! node_modules/@react-navigation/native
npm ERR! @react-navigation/native@"6.0.10" from the root project
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Could not resolve dependency:
npm ERR! peer @react-navigation/native@"^5.0.5" from @react-navigation/compat@5.1.25
npm ERR! node_modules/@react-navigation/compat
npm ERR! @react-navigation/compat@"5.1.25" from the root project
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Fix the upstream dependency conflict, or retry
npm ERR! this command with --force or --legacy-peer-deps
npm ERR! to accept an incorrect (and potentially broken) dependency resolution.

Same issue when repo is forked
Attempted with node versions 18 and 20.

[jfoxworth]

Messed with this for several hours now. There is a level of technical debt that makes the repo unworkable.