First attempt to use meteor fails - demo app crashes

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I’ve tried to install meteor (on debian) and follow the hello-world tutorial at https://www.meteor.com/tutorials/blaze/creating-an-app,

For me this fails immediately on attempting to run it using 'meteor '. I get an exception thrown on teh meteor console which has this as the proximate cause:

/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.5.0.nko897++os.linux.x86_64+web.browser+web.cordova/mt-os.linux.x86_64/dev_bundle/server-lib/node_modules/fibers/future.js:280
W20170615-15:15:16.841(1)? (STDERR) throw(ex);

TypeError: Cannot read property ‘resolve’ of undefined
W20170615-15:15:16.845(1)? (STDERR) at meteorInstall.node_modules.meteor.shell-server.shell-server.js (packages/shell-server/shell-server.js:393:26)

I’ve tried meteor add shell-server to try and fix this, and get error: unknown package: isobuild:isopack-2.

Any attempt to update or add isobuild results in the same error message.

Is this typical of developing stuff with Meteor? Is there an easy fix? (Or any fix?)

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Not very common. I dont know what could be wrong, but sounds like your missing some packages. You could try meteor update or meteor npm install but not sure if that will help.