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TJR
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Reputation: 6587

meteorjs - from windows to ubuntu 13.10

I developed my meteorjs application on windows. Because of the problems with meteor on Windows, I uninstalled Windows and installed Ubuntu 13.10 to work on the project.

I copied the whole meteorjs application I made, and want to start it on my computer.

First problem! An error occured and it says that the mongoDB url is given wrong. So i created a new meteorjs app und copied my stuff in it (without the .meteor dir!) and now the mongo error is solved.

But now i have a another problem. It says 

ReferenceError: Router is not defined
    at app/lib/router.js:20:1

I use the external package iron-router. after this error i tried the following:

I dont know whats the problem now. When i exec "add iron-router" there is no error. It says that the package was added. When i restart the server and/or reset the application the same error is shown.

Here are the line from app/lib/router.js

Line 20:

Router.configure({
    layoutTemplate : 'layoutDefault'
});

Edit I solved the problem this way:

I created a new meteor app and then installed meteorite. Now attention: On Ubuntu i got an Error that the command mrt cant be execute. To solve this you have to ype the following:

cd /usr/bin
ln -s nodejs node

Now i installed all packages i needed for my project. After this I copied all of my Files and folders insider my meteor app except /packages and /.meteor and paste these files and folders into my new app. Than i deleted the default app-stuff inside my new app.

Works fine.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 281

Answers (1)

Serkan Durusoy
Serkan Durusoy

Reputation: 5472

The .meteor directory contains some required files therefore the easiest for you would be to copy over the whole project directory to your linux box and then:

$ cd projectdir
$ meteor update
$ meteor reset
$ mrt install
$ meteor

The key here are:

  • meteor update which updates meteor version
  • meteor reset which deletes the database files
  • mrt install which installs required packages from atmosphere

If you want a bare minimum file repo, you can delete the local directory from within .meteor and any third party packages from the packages directory

Once you run mrt install meteorite will install third party packages for you from scratch.

Also, meteor will look in .meteor/packages to see what your installed packages should be and .meteor/release to see what version meteor is running. You might want to check the contents of these files.

After finishing up, I strongly suggest you sync your project to a remote source control repository like git or subversion (preferably git) so that you don't run into platform problems any more.

Upvotes: 2

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