Can't deploy app on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS after upgrade to Meteor 1.3

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Everything worked fine until Meteor 1.3 upgrade. Now I’ve even tried to reconfigure new Ubuntu 14.04 LTS droplet from skratch, no success. Here is what I’m doing:

  1. Installed NodeJS 0.10.x and Mongo.
    curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_0.10 | sudo bash -
    apt-get install nodejs
    apt-get install mongodb-server

  2. Built app.
    meteor build --architecture os.linux.x86_64

  3. Uploaded it to server and extracted to /home/production

  4. Tried to install dependencies.
    cd /home/production/bundle/programs/server && npm install

And here we are:

> fibers@1.0.8 install /home/production/bundle/programs/server/node_modules/fibers
> node build.js || nodejs build.js

gyp ERR! build error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: not found: make
gyp ERR! stack     at F (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/which/which.js:43:28)
gyp ERR! stack     at E (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/which/which.js:46:29)
gyp ERR! stack     at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/which/which.js:57:16
gyp ERR! stack     at Object.oncomplete (evalmachine.<anonymous>:108:15)
gyp ERR! System Linux 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64
gyp ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild" "--release"
gyp ERR! cwd /home/production/bundle/programs/server/node_modules/fibers
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.43
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v1.0.1
gyp ERR! not ok 
Build failed
gyp ERR! build error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: not found: make
gyp ERR! stack     at F (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/which/which.js:43:28)
gyp ERR! stack     at E (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/which/which.js:46:29)
gyp ERR! stack     at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/which/which.js:57:16
gyp ERR! stack     at Object.oncomplete (evalmachine.<anonymous>:108:15)
gyp ERR! System Linux 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64
gyp ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild" "--release"
gyp ERR! cwd /home/production/bundle/programs/server/node_modules/fibers
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.43
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v1.0.1
gyp ERR! not ok 
Build failed

npm ERR! fibers@1.0.8 install: `node build.js || nodejs build.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the fibers@1.0.8 install script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the fibers package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node build.js || nodejs build.js
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls fibers
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! System Linux 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64
npm ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! cwd /home/production/bundle/programs/server
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.43
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.29
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! not ok code 0

I even tried to use exact “meteor” versions of NodeJS and NPM: 0.10.43 and 2.14.22. No success. It was a prod env btw. Not sure if Meteor is ready for prod yet.

What can I try?

2

It seems Ubuntu doesn’t come with all the tools needed to compile software by default. This should fix it:

sudo apt-get install build-essential
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Yes! It helps. Thank you so much. I have no idea how could it work before 1.3 update without make. May be I received some other error message due to NodeJS version incompatibility, and this particular “make” problem appeared right after setting up things from scratch and installing the exact 0.10.43 NodeJS version. Or maybe something really changed in Meteor itself in 1.3. Anyway, now everything works fine. Thank you.