Error installing Meteor on Centos 7

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Hello to all. I’m trying to install Meteor on Centos 7 but i’m receiving the next error:

[root@host ~]# npm install -g meteor
/usr/bin/meteor-installer → /usr/lib/node_modules/meteor/cli.js

meteor@2.4.1 install /usr/lib/node_modules/meteor
node cli.js install

internal/fs/utils.js:332
throw err;
^

Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir ‘/usr/lib/node_modules/meteor/tmp->26284o5Wns6DxJKcO’
at Object.mkdirSync (fs.js:1013:3)
at Object.dirSync (/usr/lib/node_modules/meteor/node_modules/tmp/lib/tmp.js:351:6)
at Object. (/usr/lib/node_modules/meteor/install.js:47:22)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1085:14)
at Object.Module._extensions…js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1114:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:950:32)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:790:12)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:974:19)
at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:93:18)
at Object. (/usr/lib/node_modules/meteor/cli.js:17:3) {
errno: -13,
syscall: ‘mkdir’,
code: ‘EACCES’,
path: ‘/usr/lib/node_modules/meteor/tmp-26284o5Wns6DxJKcO’
}
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! meteor@2.4.1 install: node cli.js install
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the meteor@2.4.1 install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output >above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /root/.npm/_logs/2021-10-08T21_09_16_466Z-debug.log

As I can see, the issue is for the write permissions but i’m executing since root user and this is the owner. I have changed the permissions to 777 but the issue persist:

[root@host ~]# ls -la /usr/lib/ | grep node
drwxrwxrwx. 3 root root 25 oct 8 16:23 node_modules

This is my version of node.js and npm:

[root@host ~]# node -v
v14.18.0
[root@host ~]# npm -v
6.14.15

The operating system has been installed recently and this is the first time that I install Meteor. I have been searching information about this error but i don’t found.

I will be grateful for any information that you can contribute to me.

Thank you very much.

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Hi !

At here Install the Latest Version of Meteor! is link to “refer to docs” where is

sudo npm install -g meteor --unsafe-perm

This does install Meteor to:

~/.meteor

For example:

/root/.meteor

To use Meteor as normal user, you could copy that folder to normal user, for example:

cp /root/.meteor /home/user/.meteor
sudo chown user:user /home/user
nano /home/user/.bashrc

And to that .bashrc add:

export PATH=$PATH:/home/user/.meteor

You can install newest npm:

sudo npm -g install npm

For running Meteor 2.2, it requires newest Node.js 12.x, so you can first install n for changing node version:

sudo npm -g install n

And then install Node.js:

sudo n 12.22.6

If you use Meteor 2.4, then install Node.js 14.x:

sudo n 14.18.0

And then logout and login, and check node version:

node -v

Some related install info is at wekan/rebuild-wekan.sh at master · wekan/wekan · GitHub

After building bundle, I have also some scripts that convert bundle to arm64/s390x/ppc64el using maintainer-make-bundle-*.sh scripts at wekan/releases at master · wekan/wekan · GitHub

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Hi xe7, thanks for your answer.

I was trying with the command

sudo npm install -g meteor --unsafe-perm

But I get the following error:

[root@host ~]# sudo npm install -g meteor --unsafe-perm
/root/.npm-global/bin/meteor-installer -> /root/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/meteor/cli.js

> meteor@2.4.1 install /root/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/meteor
> node cli.js install

=> Meteor Downloaded in 30.351s
/root/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/meteor/install.js:29
  throw err;
  ^

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/root/.meteor-install-started.txt'
    at Object.openSync (fs.js:497:3)
    at Object.writeFileSync (fs.js:1528:35)
    at b.<anonymous> (/root/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/meteor/install.js:130:8)
    at b.emit (events.js:400:28)
    at WriteStream.<anonymous> (/root/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/meteor/node_modules/node-downloader-helper/dist/index.js:1:9269)
    at WriteStream.emit (events.js:400:28)
    at emitCloseNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:87:10)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:81:21) {
  errno: -2,
  syscall: 'open',
  code: 'ENOENT',
  path: '/home/root/.meteor-install-started.txt'
}
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! meteor@2.4.1 install: `node cli.js install`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the meteor@2.4.1 install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2021-10-12T16_53_49_970Z-debug.log

I was reading about nvx but as I understand it, nvx is used to run applications without installing it. The following link shows package execution commands but not installation commands

I am installing Mozdef on a machine and for now I only need the Meteor to continue the installation process.

Thanks for your contribution

4

As I am a new user, I can only enter one link per response. Also, I followed the steps 1 to 6 in the next link:

5

And this one:

But the issue persist.

6

It complains you do not have this directory. Please create it:

mkdir -p /home/root
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Hi xet7,
I have been doing different tests,
I had to reinstall the operating system as I did not have enough space allocated in / home.
I ran the command and the following came out in a normal user:

[user@host ~]$ sudo npm install -g meteor --unsafe-perm
[sudo] password for host: 

changed 46 packages, and audited 47 packages in 4s

2 packages are looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details

found 0 vulnerabilities
[user@host ~]$ sudo which meteor
which: no meteor in (/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin)
[user@host ~]$

this is the error if I use the root user:

[root@host ~]# nvm use 16
Now using node v16.11.1 (npm v8.0.0)
[root@host ~]# 
[root@host ~]# 
[root@host ~]# npm install -g meteor
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path /root/.nvm/versions/node/v16.11.1/lib/node_modules/meteor
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c node cli.js install
npm ERR! node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:936
npm ERR!   throw err;
npm ERR!   ^
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Error: Cannot find module '/root/.nvm/versions/node/v16.11.1/lib/node_modules/meteor/cli.js'
npm ERR!     at Function.Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:933:15)
npm ERR!     at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:778:27)
npm ERR!     at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:79:12)
npm ERR!     at node:internal/main/run_main_module:17:47 {
npm ERR!   code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
npm ERR!   requireStack: []
npm ERR! }

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2021-10-15T21_37_50_311Z-debug.log

it’s as if the installer couldn’t find the path ‘/root/.nvm/versions/node/v16.11.1/lib/node_modules/meteor/cli.js’ which in effect was not in that location so I found it in the path /usr/lib/node_modules/meteor/ and pasted it in the path requested by the installer.

[root@host ~]# ls -la /root/.nvm/versions/node/v16.11.1/lib/node_modules/meteor/
total 36
drwxr-xr-x.  3 root root  186 oct 13 16:28 .
drwxr-xr-x.  5 1001 1001   63 oct 15 16:37 ..
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root  430 oct 13 16:28 cli.js
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root  915 oct 13 16:28 config.js
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 2991 oct 13 16:28 extract.js
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 6958 oct 13 16:28 install.js
drwxr-xr-x. 47 root root 4096 oct 13 16:28 node_modules
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root  475 oct 13 16:28 package.json
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 1872 oct 13 16:28 README.md
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root  412 oct 13 16:28 uninstall.js

but the error remains the same.

I will try it with the Legacy Installation Method and making the modifications that you has been indicated me in the first answer to be able to use Meteor as a normal user. Although I am concerned that the page says that This installation method is not maintained anymore.

I will tell you if I can do the installation or if it generates a new error.

Thank you very much.

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Node 16.x does not work with Meteor.

Node 14.x works with newest Meteor.

Node 12.x works with Meteor 2.2.

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9

It’s simple

  1. You do not run nvm as root - bad practice and insecure
  2. Create a user and setup the shell and home directory, set the env vars there with export and add to .bashrc or .bash_profile
  3. Install the build tar gz to the user directory , untar the deployment tarball you scp’d to the server that you made from your local development with meteor build and do cd bundle then (cd programs/server && npm install) to install your app as a production instance, start with node main.js
  4. If centos is your local development you should be using your user not root to work on it should be in /home/username/.nvm you do not do development on production and it will expose your code you only send the server tarball file there
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Ok, I changed to the version 14 but I have the same initial error

[root@host ~]# nvm use 14
Now using node v14.18.1 (npm v6.14.15)
[root@host ~]# 
[root@host ~]# npm install -g meteor
/root/.nvm/versions/node/v14.18.1/bin/meteor-installer -> /root/.nvm/versions/node/v14.18.1/lib/node_modules/meteor/cli.js

> meteor@2.4.1 install /root/.nvm/versions/node/v14.18.1/lib/node_modules/meteor
> node cli.js install

internal/fs/utils.js:332
    throw err;
    ^

Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/root/.nvm/versions/node/v14.18.1/lib/node_modules/meteor/tmp-113614QvpPfG52P8q'
    at Object.mkdirSync (fs.js:1013:3)
    at Object.dirSync (/root/.nvm/versions/node/v14.18.1/lib/node_modules/meteor/node_modules/tmp/lib/tmp.js:351:6)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/root/.nvm/versions/node/v14.18.1/lib/node_modules/meteor/install.js:47:22)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1085:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1114:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:950:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:790:12)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:974:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:93:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/root/.nvm/versions/node/v14.18.1/lib/node_modules/meteor/cli.js:17:3) {
  errno: -13,
  syscall: 'mkdir',
  code: 'EACCES',
  path: '/root/.nvm/versions/node/v14.18.1/lib/node_modules/meteor/tmp-113614QvpPfG52P8q'
}
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! meteor@2.4.1 install: `node cli.js install`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the meteor@2.4.1 install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2021-10-19T20_18_39_347Z-debug.log
[root@host ~]#

Well, I needed to install Meteor and verify that it can run as it is required as a plug-in for Mozdef to work. I had to reinstall it with the legacy install method as with NPM it kept crashing.

[root@host ~]# su user
[user@host root]$ 
[user@host root]$ cd /home/user/my_app/
[user@host my_app]$ 
[user@host my_app]$ meteor
[[[[[ ~/my_app ]]]]]                          

=> Started proxy.                             
=> Started HMR server.                        
=> Started MongoDB.                           
=> Started your app.                          

=> App running at: http://localhost:3000/

Thank you very much for your collaboration.

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Hi,

I had the exact same issues (same error messages) installing Meteor in an ubuntu docker container.

As our friend xet7 said, it was only lacking /home/root since the docker user was root

so this fixed it:
sudo mkdir -p /home/root
sudo npm install -g meteor --unsafe-perm

Afterward, the problem was the path to find the meteor executable.
It was located in /home/root/.meteor/meteor

so I added this:
export PATH=$PATH:/home/root/.meteor

And everything now works fine!

Thanks xet7

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