Installing Meteor 1.3 with an existing 1.2 left in place

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Continuing the discussion from Migrating to Meteor 1.3:

This is not so much a discussion of Migration as it is a discussion of my attempts to install 1.3 but I couldn’t figure out where else to ask.

I have been working in Meteor 1.2 since August. My intention, today, was to install and use 1.3 for a new site. I am not ready to migrate my 1.2 project to 1.3. I understand from Sashko that it is possible to have both 1.2 and 1.3 on my PC.

I went to guide.meteor.com, noted that the dropdown box indicated 1.3, and clicked “download the windows installer” from the Quick Start section.

I ran the installer expecting it to install meteor 1.3. I wasn’t able to signin so I took the option to “skip this step”. I was immediately presented with another dialog indicating Meteor was installed. I was suspicious of this since it was presented so quickly and there was no visual indicator of the installation process actually taking place, but I started to follow the instructions to create a project. based on the guide instructions

meteor create myapp
cd myapp
meteor npm install

what I got was:
‘npm’ is not a Meteor command. See ‘meteor --help’.

This would seem to indicate the meteor version I’m running is 1.2.
It is not clear to me what actions I need to take to move forward.

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The way to update Meteor is to type meteor update in any terminal, rather than running the installer again. We used to put that in the release announcement, I guess we forgot this time. @benjamn we should probably document this somewhere.

Also, there’s currently a bug preventing some people from using 1.3 on Windows, I’d suggest waiting until 1.3.1 which is coming tomorrow.

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Do I understand that what I want to do for this project is create it as a 1.2 project and then “meteor update” the project?
… I’ll wait for 1.3.1. …Really appreciate your promptness.