Windows - Meteor command not found: /usr/local/bin/meteor

[dtrimsd]

I found your instructions in README.md.

In your step 3 you state: Create a launcher in the folder for your project. What do you mean? I've added a launcher.cmd under my Meteor project directory, and various other places. No matter what I do I still get the original error message.

Suggestions?

By the way, I could not install your package via the Atom gui. I had to use the command line as per https://zenagiwa.wordpress.com/2015/02/15/installing-packages-for-atom-on-windows/.

[PEM--]

Hi @dtrimsd. Actually, no suggestion at all... I don't own any Windows computer. The steps in the README have been gently provided by @tbiggins in #25.

If you find a better approach, please share it. Windows support for Meteor has just been added, I'm sure that it will benefit to other users.

[dtrimsd]

FWIW:

The Windows Meteor installer instals Meteor, node.js, and mongo/mongodb all under the following directory: C:\Users\Worker\AppData\Local.meteor

Underneath that directory is a 'meteor.bat' file.

As part of the Meteor install this directory is added to the System Path environment variable.

Once that is done I can open up a Command Window and then navigate to any directory I want to start a Meteor project under. Once there I just enter: "meteor create projectname". Meteor creates the project. I then do a 'cd projectname' and then 'meteor' to start the application.

Also, to terminate meteor, mongo, node.js I just close the one command window.

Works every time.

I'm trying to use meteor-helper. I haven't been able to get it to work using other suggestions so i did a bit of poking around. I found that you set up your defaults in: C:\Users\worker.atom\packages\meteor-helper\lib\meteor-helper.coffee

I made changes to:

meteorPath: type: 'string' description: 'Customize Meteor\'s launching command' default: '/usr/local/bin/meteor' order: 2

Using this default I receive the following error: Meteor command not found: /usr/local/bin/meteor

Makes sense.

I then tried:

default: 'C:/Users/worker/AppData/Local/.meteor' -Arguments to path joint must be string.

default: 'C:/Users/worker/AppData/Local/.meteor/' -Arguments to path join must be string

default: 'C:/Users/worker/AppData/Local/.meteor/meteor' -Meteor command not found: C:/Users/worker/AppData/Local/.meteor/meteor

default: 'C:\Users\worker\AppData\Local.meteor' -Meteor command not found: c:UsserworkerAppDataLocal.meteor

default: 'C:\Users\worker\AppData\Local.meteor' -Arguments to path join must be strings

default: 'C:\Users\worker\AppData\Local.meteor\' -Arguments to path join must be strings

default: 'C:\Users\worker\AppData\Local.meteor\meteor' Meteor command not found: c:\Users\worker\appData\local.meteor\Meteor

I can't seem to come up with a happy default. I'm guessing part of the problem is that the directory path contains '...local.meteor' I think that the '.' might be an issue.

I haven't a clue why sometimes I'm told it's not a string and other times I am. Unfortunately when it's accepted it's a bad directory path. Any suggestions?

On a different issue. Would you consider altering your meteor-helper so that two command windows can be opened at the same time?

With one command window you can start Meteor and watch the log. However, what do you do if you need to do a 'meteor mongo' command? For that to work one window must be running the application. A second window must be opened, then navigate to the directory the application is running in, then enter 'meteor mongo'.

I've wanted a way to open up one command window, navigate to the application directory, then start up the application. If at some point I wanted to use mongo I'd like to have a function that would open up a second command window, automatically navigate to the application directory, then allow me to enter the 'meteor mongo' command with any options I might want to use.

[dtrimsd]

The Windows Meteor installer instals Meteor, node.js, and mongo/mongodb all under the following directory: C:\Users\Worker\AppData\Local.meteor

I'd have sworn I'd added the .meteor in my original message. Sorry.

[dtrimsd]

Aaaaaarrrrrg....

This editor changes my text. The directory is:

C;\Users\Worker\AppData\Localmeteor

Its is not \Local.meteor

[dtrimsd]

It changed it again. It should be:

C:\Users\worker\AppData\Local \ . meteor

Without the spaces.

[PEM--]

Poking around is the right way to go :+1:

The file C:\Users\worker.atom\packages\meteor-helper\lib\meteor-helper.coffee is the default setting. It's one of the source file of this plugin (see this). Normally, this file is exposed in the settings of the plugin. If we found the appropriate value to setup, I will change it so that it holds the appropriate value for Windows.

In JS as well as in CS, the \ is a special string character for inserting... special character. What Atom is telling you is to use its path library. You could use something like path.join to create the proper expected path on Windows.

Could you try something like C:\\Users\\Worker\\AppData\\Local.meteor?

[alican-k]

C:\Users\alican\AppData\Local.meteor\meteor.bat This path worked for me. So, it requires bat file to be added.

[6gsaifulislam]

Just spent the last three hours trying to get it to work with windows 8.1 (64 bit). In the end all I had to do was change the setting in the package so that the meteor path included the meteor.bat file as in alican-k message above. It did not require a revised atommeteor,bat file or an launcher.cmd file.

[PEM--]

:+1: @JohnAReid Could you create a PR out of it? That would certainly help some guys around.

[6gsaifulislam]

@PEM-- Sorry not sure what you mean by PR - however here is a screen shot of my settings which work: Where john is the user name - I tried using the windows variable of %LOCALAPPDATA% which should substitute the C:\Users\john\AppData\Local bit and make it more generic but it did not work.

[PEM--]

Thank you for sharing. Indeed, very easy once you see the solution. I'm sure that will help a lot of Windows users. I think there's a way to create defaults depending on OS. Node has access the environment variables. Extrapolating %LOCALAPPDATA% and putting it as a default on the Windows's platform would be cleaner that just a documentation update. I will check this out.

PS : A PR is a pul request :wink:

[6gsaifulislam]

Thanks hope it will help others! - one suggestion I would make is to have two menu items "Launch Meteor" and "Stop Meteor" and hide one depending on state of meteor running.

[PEM--]

I've found that toggling was faster when you need to relaunch Meteor, which starts to be very rare now since 0.8. Plus, it only takes one key combo.

[ankitappuria]

I have installed meteor and I am getting this error while running meteor command from terminal \AppData\Local\.meteor\packages\meteor-tool\1.1.1\mt-os.windows.x86_32\ was unexpected at this time

Can any one help me? Thanks

[PEM--]

Hi @ankitappuria, you should use the Meteor's forum for that. There should be some Windows users that could help you out there: https://forums.meteor.com

[thomasrivette]

On startup of meteor in simple-todos I receive and error after => Started Proxy Unexpected mongo exit code 48. Restarting. Unexpected mongo exit code 48. Restarting. Unexpected mongo exit code 48. Restarting. Can't start Mongo server. MongoDB exited because its port was closed, or was already take by a previous instance of MongoDB

Check for other processes listening on port 3001 or other Meteor instances running in the same project.

Meteor was the first install of Mongo that I am aware of on this machine.

[nosizejosh]

this works!!!

C:\Users\your_username\AppData\Local.meteor\meteor.bat

[ghost]

After uninstalling meteor , cannot install meteor via InstalMeteor.exe in win 8