Cannot install on mac os x?

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Running the basic script as sudo, but all sorts of crap happening. Any idea what could wrong … dump from the terminal:

$ sudo curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 7786 0 7786 0 0 11999 0 --:–:-- --:–:-- --:–:-- 11996
Downloading Meteor distribution
######################################################################## 100.0%

Meteor 1.4.3.2 has been installed in your home directory (~/.meteor).
Writing a launcher script to /usr/local/bin/meteor for your convenience.
This may prompt for your password.
cp: /usr/local/bin/meteor: No such file or directory

Couldn’t write the launcher script. Please either:

(1) Run the following as root:
cp “/Users/sab/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/1.4.3_2/mt-os.osx.x86_64/scripts/admin/launch-meteor” /usr/bin/meteor
(2) Add “$HOME/.meteor” to your path, or
(3) Rerun this command to try again.

Then to get started, take a look at ‘meteor --help’ or see the docs at
docs.meteor.com.

  1. Tried: sudo cp “/Users/sab/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/1.4.3_2/mt-os.osx.x86_64/scripts/admin/launch-meteor” /usr/bin/meteor

  2. No luck.

  3. Tried meteor --help

  4. -bash: meteor: command not found (of course, the bugger won’t install, sigh!)

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You should not be using sudo to do the install.

Unfortunately, you will need to use sudo to remove what you’ve currently installed before trying again.

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I know I shouldn’t, but that’s what you start trying once things go sour … and I still haven’t figured anything out.

4

I’m basically trying to install reaction commerce, which will try to install meteor for you if you haven’t already. And I get a message that states meteor is installed succesfully … which it is not.

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So what happened when you first tried installing without sudo?

6

Can’t recall as I’ve done a couple thousand things since …

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I’ve tried installing it manually but it keep failing with some permission issues (therefore the initial sudo) …

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I’m not familiar with reaction commerce, but I imagine it just performs a naive check, rather than actually verifying a successful installation.

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I skipped installing reaction commerce. I’m fighting installing meteor at the moment. The bugger simply won’t install on my machine. It runs thousands and thousands of line of code … all of them ending in: Permission denied

I’ve tried changing the owner of usr/local wihtout any luck.

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I can only suggest removing everything that’s part of a Meteor installation and then trying again. If you’ve tried multiple times as root and non-root the debris is likely to be in several places.

  • the home directory of any user you installed as, and also root’s home directory: rm -rf .meteor*
  • The meteor executable: rm /usr/local/bin/meteor
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Thanks, tried that. Now it actually installs … I’ll see if I can get reaction going now.

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