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sohel khalifa
sohel khalifa

Reputation: 5578

Meteor: Error while cloning repo from Github

I am facing problems in installing Meteorite.

I'm currently going to start working on Telescope Project which is hosted here.

I have downloaded the Telescope into D:\Meteor\Telescope, and installed Meteorite using npm install -g meteorite in command prompt.

But when I rum meteorite using mrt command I get following errors:

Stand back while Meteorite does its thing

Installing Meteor

  branch: https://github.com/meteor/meteor.git#master

Installing smart packages

C:\Users\Snowflax\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\meteorite\lib\sources\git.js:108
        throw "There was a problem cloning repo: " + self.url;
                                                   ^
There was a problem cloning repo: https://github.com/meteor/meteor.git

What is going wrong here? I have Meteor Preview 0.4.2 already installed on my Windows 7 System. Is there any cross-platform issues? Any help will be appriciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 798

Answers (2)

user3013590
user3013590

Reputation: 11

I finally could fix the problem, by uninstalling Meteor and meteorite and installing npm here's the trick:

First remove meteor

  • $ sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/meteor (path depending on the distribution)
  • $ sudo rm -rf ~/.meteor ~/.meteorite ~/.meteorsession
  • $ sudo mrt uninstall
  • $ sudo mrt uninstall --system

make sure to have the right permissions:

  • $ sudo chown -R 'whoami' ~/.npm

    • Then install again:
    download and install node from here: http: //nodejs.org/download/

  • $ curl https://install.meteor.com | sh
  • $ sudo -H npm install -g meteorite

    • in last resource there is a workaround, before i could fix the issue i was force to clone manually from Github, not the nicest approach but i will work

    1) $ mrt add 'package-you-want-to-install'

    2) then copy the link of the git repository i.e.:(https://github.com/EventedMind/iron-router.git)

    3) navigate to packages directory $ cd packages

    4) then clone the package manually $ git clone https://github.com/EventedMind/iron-router.git

    Upvotes: 1

    VonC
    VonC

    Reputation: 1327734

    The exception message comes from meteorite lib/sources/git.js:

    GitSource.prototype._clone = function(fn) {
  var self = this;
  if (!fs.existsSync(this.sourcePath)) {
    exec('git clone ' + self.url + ' ' + this.sourcePath, function(err, stdout, stderr) {
      if (err)
        throw "There was a problem cloning repo: " + self.url;
      fn();
    });
  } else {
    fn();
  }
};

    You need to add to the exception message the this.sourcePath value, and from there, repeat the git clone command manually (in your own git-cmd DOS session) in order to see why it fails.

    Upvotes: 1

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