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Merhawi Fissehaye
Merhawi Fissehaye

Reputation: 2867

How do I manually install meteor?

The automatic installer script from meteor meteor.sh stops due to internet connectivity. I looked into the installer script, commented out the lines that try to download the TARBALL. Here is what I did:

I copied the TARBALL_URL from the script: https://meteorinstall-4168.kxcdn.com/packages-bootstrap/${RELEASE}/meteor-bootstrap-${PLATFORM}.tar.gz, replaced

${RELEASE} by 1.3.2.4,

${PLATFORM} by os.osx.x86_64,

pasted the link in my browser and downloaded a .tar.gz file.

After downloading the TARBALL, I commented out the following lines:

# rm -rf "$INSTALL_TMPDIR"
# mkdir "$INSTALL_TMPDIR"
# curl --progress-bar --fail "$TARBALL_URL" | tar -xzf - -C "$INSTALL_TMPDIR" -o

When I try to run the extracting command tar -xzf... it does nothing. Even when I try to extract using GUI, it gives nothing. It's not like the package is corrupted; there is no error message.

EDIT

commented out a few more lines:

# If you already have a tropohouse/warehouse, we do a clean install here:
# if [ -e "$HOME/.meteor" ]; then
  # echo "Removing your existing Meteor installation."
  # rm -rf "$HOME/.meteor"
# fi

TARBALL_URL="https://meteorinstall-4168.kxcdn.com/packages-bootstrap/${RELEASE}/meteor-bootstrap-${PLATFORM}.tar.gz"

# INSTALL_TMPDIR="$HOME/.meteor-install-tmp"
# rm -rf "$INSTALL_TMPDIR"
# mkdir "$INSTALL_TMPDIR"
# echo "Downloading Meteor distribution"
# curl --progress-bar --fail "$TARBALL_URL" | tar -xzf - -C "$INSTALL_TMPDIR" -o
# rm -rf "${INSTALL_TMPDIR}"
# just double-checking :)
# bomb out if it didn't work, eg no net
# test -x "${INSTALL_TMPDIR}/.meteor/meteor"
# mv "${INSTALL_TMPDIR}/.meteor" "$HOME"

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1016

Answers (1)

Merhawi Fissehaye
Merhawi Fissehaye

Reputation: 2867

I solved it. The extraction command actually extracts the folder to the $INSTALL_TMPDIR which is ~/.meteor-install-tmp but the files are hidden (dot preceded files such as .meteor/).

I commented out a few more lines and executed them manually.

  • Moved the .meteor folder to $HOME
  • Executed the script

Upvotes: 1

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