Well then, you could paste the following into a file and execute it or if you don’t want to blindly copy and paste some random weird stuff into your server terminal (I would not be offended) just visit install.meteor.com in your browser and copy over the script from there.
#!/bin/sh
# This is the Meteor install script!
#
# Are you looking at this in your web browser, and would like to install Meteor?
# Just open up your terminal and type:
#
# curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh
#
# Meteor currently supports:
# - Mac: OS X 10.7 and above
# - Linux: x86 and x86_64 systems
# We wrap this whole script in a function, so that we won't execute
# until the entire script is downloaded.
# That's good because it prevents our output overlapping with curl's.
# It also means that we can't run a partially downloaded script.
# We don't indent because it would be really confusing with the heredocs.
run_it () {
# This always does a clean install of the latest version of Meteor into your
# ~/.meteor, replacing whatever is already there. (~/.meteor is only a cache of
# packages and package metadata; no personal persistent data is stored there.)
RELEASE="1.1.0.2"
# Now, on to the actual installer!
## NOTE sh NOT bash. This script should be POSIX sh only, since we don't
## know what shell the user has. Debian uses 'dash' for 'sh', for
## example.
PREFIX="/usr/local"
set -e
set -u
# Let's display everything on stderr.
exec 1>&2
UNAME=$(uname)
if [ "$UNAME" != "Linux" -a "$UNAME" != "Darwin" ] ; then
echo "Sorry, this OS is not supported yet."
exit 1
fi
if [ "$UNAME" = "Darwin" ] ; then
### OSX ###
if [ "i386" != "$(uname -p)" -o "1" != "$(sysctl -n hw.cpu64bit_capable 2>/dev/null || echo 0)" ] ; then
# Can't just test uname -m = x86_64, because Snow Leopard can
# return other values.
echo "Only 64-bit Intel processors are supported at this time."
exit 1
fi
# Running a version of Meteor older than 0.6.0 (April 2013)?
if grep BUNDLE_VERSION /usr/local/bin/meteor >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
echo "You appear to have a very old version of Meteor installed."
echo "Please remove it by running these commands:"
echo " $ sudo rm /usr/local/bin/meteor"
echo " $ sudo rm -rf /usr/local/meteor /usr/local/meteor.old"
echo "and then run the installer command again:"
echo " $ curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh"
exit 1
fi
PLATFORM="os.osx.x86_64"
elif [ "$UNAME" = "Linux" ] ; then
### Linux ###
LINUX_ARCH=$(uname -m)
if [ "${LINUX_ARCH}" = "i686" ] ; then
PLATFORM="os.linux.x86_32"
elif [ "${LINUX_ARCH}" = "x86_64" ] ; then
PLATFORM="os.linux.x86_64"
else
echo "Unusable architecture: ${LINUX_ARCH}"
echo "Meteor only supports i686 and x86_64 for now."
exit 1
fi
# Running a version of Meteor older than 0.6.0 (April 2013) on a dpkg system?
if dpkg -s meteor >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
echo "You appear to have a very old version of Meteor installed."
echo "Please remove it by running these commands:"
echo " $ sudo dpkg -r meteor"
echo " $ hash -r"
echo "and then run the installer command again:"
echo " $ curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh"
exit 1
fi
# Running a version of Meteor older than 0.6.0 (April 2013) on an rpm system?
if rpm -q meteor >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
echo "You appear to have a very old version of Meteor installed."
echo "Please remove it by running these commands:"
echo " $ sudo rpm -e meteor"
echo " $ hash -r"
echo "and then run the installer command again:"
echo " $ curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh"
exit 1
fi
fi
trap "echo Installation failed." EXIT
# 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://d3sqy0vbqsdhku.cloudfront.net/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 "$INSTALL_TMPDIR" -o
# bomb out if it didn't work, eg no net
test -x "${INSTALL_TMPDIR}/.meteor/meteor"
mv "${INSTALL_TMPDIR}/.meteor" "$HOME"
rm -rf "${INSTALL_TMPDIR}"
# just double-checking :)
test -x "$HOME/.meteor/meteor"
echo
echo "Meteor ${RELEASE} has been installed in your home directory (~/.meteor)."
METEOR_SYMLINK_TARGET="$(readlink "$HOME/.meteor/meteor")"
METEOR_TOOL_DIRECTORY="$(dirname "$METEOR_SYMLINK_TARGET")"
LAUNCHER="$HOME/.meteor/$METEOR_TOOL_DIRECTORY/scripts/admin/launch-meteor"
if cp "$LAUNCHER" "$PREFIX/bin/meteor" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
echo "Writing a launcher script to $PREFIX/bin/meteor for your convenience."
cat <<"EOF"
To get started fast:
$ meteor create ~/my_cool_app
$ cd ~/my_cool_app
$ meteor
Or see the docs at:
docs.meteor.com
EOF
elif type sudo >/dev/null 2>&1; then
echo "Writing a launcher script to $PREFIX/bin/meteor for your convenience."
echo "This may prompt for your password."
# New macs (10.9+) don't ship with /usr/local, however it is still in
# the default PATH. We still install there, we just need to create the
# directory first.
# XXX this means that we can run sudo too many times. we should never
# run it more than once if it fails the first time
if [ ! -d "$PREFIX/bin" ] ; then
sudo mkdir -m 755 "$PREFIX" || true
sudo mkdir -m 755 "$PREFIX/bin" || true
fi
if sudo cp "$LAUNCHER" "$PREFIX/bin/meteor"; then
cat <<"EOF"
To get started fast:
$ meteor create ~/my_cool_app
$ cd ~/my_cool_app
$ meteor
Or see the docs at:
docs.meteor.com
EOF
else
cat <<EOF
Couldn't write the launcher script. Please either:
(1) Run the following as root:
cp "$LAUNCHER" /usr/bin/meteor
(2) Add "\$HOME/.meteor" to your path, or
(3) Rerun this command to try again.
Then to get started, take a look at 'meteor --help' or see the docs at
docs.meteor.com.
EOF
fi
else
cat <<EOF
Now you need to do one of the following:
(1) Add "\$HOME/.meteor" to your path, or
(2) Run this command as root:
cp "$LAUNCHER" /usr/bin/meteor
Then to get started, take a look at 'meteor --help' or see the docs at
docs.meteor.com.
EOF
fi
trap - EXIT
}
run_it