Question
Ubuntu 16.04 mean.js installation (without using one click app)
- Posted June 17, 2017
- MEANNode.jsUbuntu 16.04
I am trying to install mean.js on my ubuntu 16.04 using the following guide. And I keep getting stuck at the grunt stage.
There were issues with building node so I install using nvm https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-node-js-on-ubuntu-16-04#how-to-install-using-nvm
Then there were issues with bower where the process was killed. Managed to solved that by adding swap. I have the 512 MB ram settings. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-on-ubuntu-14-04
Now my problem is grunt. I now have this error.
/opt/mean$ grunt A valid Gruntfile could not be found. Please see the getting started guide for more information on how to configure grunt: http://gruntjs.com/getting-started Fatal error: Unable to find Gruntfile.
Then when I tried
/opt/mean$ npm install npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /opt/mean/node_modules/tiny-lr/node_modules npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /opt/mean/node_modules/tiny-lr/node_modules/body-parser/node_modules npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /opt/mean/node_modules/tiny-lr/node_modules/raw-body/node_modules npm WARN eslint-config-airbnb@6.0.2 requires a peer of eslint-plugin-react@^4.0.0 but none was installed. npm ERR! path /opt/mean/node_modules/tiny-lr/node_modules npm ERR! code EACCES npm ERR! errno -13 npm ERR! syscall access npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access ‘/opt/mean/node_modules/tiny-lr/node_modules’ npm ERR! at Error (native) npm ERR! { Error: EACCES: permission denied, access ‘/opt/mean/node_modules/tiny-lr/node_modules’ npm ERR! at Error (native) npm ERR! errno: -13, npm ERR! code: ‘EACCES’, npm ERR! syscall: ‘access’, npm ERR! path: ‘/opt/mean/node_modules/tiny-lr/node_modules’ } npm ERR! npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator. npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! /home/ktyc/.npm/_logs/2017-06-17T08_43_13_072Z-debug.log
This is my second droplet try.
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I tested a few iterations before I get to this point…
After I execute
Then commented
All the mongo error went away.
After I execute
as per https://github.com/meanjs/mean I get the Mean.js test page :)
I don’t think this is the right way though. So the problem is still not solved. There has to be a better solution.
Anyway before I commented the mongod.conf. It generated the errors below.
After I commented the mongod.conf, no more errors.
@hansen
Thanks, I will try other alternatives too. Anyway I pasted the results of the command.
@hansen I am trying to verify that my installation is alright by getting the window below. Mean successful installation Unless there is another way to verify this?
@hansen
My answers were rejected as spam. I am not sure why. I suspect I misused the link funtion here.
I created an account in pastebin with the reply I intended. I hope it works. My reply here in pastebin
@hansen Below are the users generated. I don’t know which user are connected to the Node app.
@hansen
Yeap I got excited. I ran npm start and I still got the same error.
@hansen
I will implement that security feature next time.
I did what you highlighted and I got the below after I ran npm install in the project folder. It’s only 3 warning but meanjs doesn’t seem to be running.
ktyc@Mark1:~$ cd meanjs ktyc@Mark1:~/meanjs$ ktyc@Mark1:~/meanjs$ npm install
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@^1.0.0 (node_modules/ch okidar/node_modules/fsevents): npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@ 1.1.2: wanted {“os”:“darwin”,“arch”:“any”} (current: {“os”:“linux”,“arch”:“x64”} ) npm WARN eslint-config-airbnb@6.0.2 requires a peer of eslint-plugin-react@^4.0. 0 but none was installed. ktyc@Mark1:~/meanjs$
@hansen
I created a new droplet and instead of using the previous tutorials cd /opt/mean sudo npm install
I am using npm install as per https://github.com/meanjs/mean So I am now getting errors only at the Mongo part. Do you have any idea on why this is happening?
I am using the guides here https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-mongodb-on-ubuntu-16-04 https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-secure-mongodb-on-ubuntu-16-04
I added the administrative user for Mongo as below. myuser and mypassword are placeholder for our discussion here. I thought this would have solved the authorized issue.
use admin db.createUser( { user: “myuser”, pwd: “;mypassword”, roles: [ { role: “userAdminAnyDatabase”, db: “admin” } ] } )
$ npm start
[06:42:17] Using gulpfile ~/meanjs/gulpfile.js [06:42:17] Starting ‘default’… [06:42:17] Starting ‘env:dev’… [06:42:17] Finished ‘env:dev’ after 241 μs [06:42:17] Starting ‘copyLocalEnvConfig’… [06:42:17] Starting ‘makeUploadsDir’… [06:42:17] Finished ‘makeUploadsDir’ after 566 μs [06:42:17] Finished ‘copyLocalEnvConfig’ after 32 ms [06:42:17] Starting ‘lint’… [06:42:17] Starting ‘less’… [06:42:19] Finished ‘less’ after 1.56 s [06:42:19] Starting ‘sass’… [06:42:19] Finished ‘sass’ after 464 ms [06:42:19] Starting ‘csslint’… [06:42:20] Starting ‘eslint’… [06:42:22] Finished ‘csslint’ after 2.95 s [06:42:33] Finished ‘eslint’ after 13 s [06:42:33] Finished ‘lint’ after 15 s [06:42:33] Starting ‘nodemon’… [06:42:33] Finished ‘nodemon’ after 208 ms [06:42:33] Starting ‘watch’… [06:42:33] Finished ‘watch’ after 456 ms [06:42:33] Finished ‘default’ after 16 s [06:42:33] [nodemon] 1.11.0 [06:42:33] [nodemon] to restart at any time, enter
rs[06:42:33] [nodemon] ignoring: /home/ktyc/meanjs/.git//* .nyc_output .sass-cac he bower_components coverage /home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules//* [06:42:33] [nodemon] watching: modules//server/views/.html server.js config/** /.js modules//server/**/.js modules//server/config/*.js [06:42:33] [nodemon] watching extensions: js,html [06:42:33] [nodemon] startingnode --debug server.js[06:42:33] [nodemon] child pid: 4035 Debugger listening on [::]:5858 [06:42:34] [nodemon] watching 174 filesEnvironment: development Server: http://0.0.0.0:3000 Database: mongodb://localhost/mean-dev App version: 0.5.0 MEAN.JS version: 0.5.0
Unhandled rejection MongoError: not authorized on mean-dev to execute command { listIndexes: “sessions”, cursor: {} } at Function.MongoError.create (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/node_ modules/mongodb-core/lib/error.js:31:11) at queryCallback (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mongo db-core/lib/cursor.js:212:36) From previous event: at MongoStore.setAutoRemoveAsync (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/connect-mon go/src/index.js:129:40) at MongoStore.handleNewConnectionAsync (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/conne ct-mongo/src/index.js:121:18) at MongoStore (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/connect-mongo/src/index.js:89: 26) at Object.module.exports.initSession (/home/ktyc/meanjs/config/lib/express.j s:120:12) at Object.module.exports.init (/home/ktyc/meanjs/config/lib/express.js:242:8 ) at /home/ktyc/meanjs/config/lib/app.js:25:23 at /home/ktyc/meanjs/config/lib/mongoose.js:38:15 at /home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/lib/connection.js:316:19 at open (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/lib/connection.js:682:17) at NativeConnection.Connection.onOpen (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoo se/lib/connection.js:692:5) at /home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/lib/connection.js:652:11 at /home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/lib/drivers/node-mongodb-native/c onnection.js:71:5 at /home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mongodb/lib/db.js:23 8:5 at Server.connectHandler (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/node_modul es/mongodb/lib/server.js:339:7) at Server.g (events.js:292:16) at emitOne (events.js:96:13) at Server.emit (events.js:188:7) at /home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/top ologies/server.js:299:14 at /home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/con nection/pool.js:469:18 at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:73:7) at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:104:9)
Unhandled rejection MongoError: not authorized on mean-dev to execute command { listIndexes: “sessions”, cursor: {} } at Function.MongoError.create (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/node_ modules/mongodb-core/lib/error.js:31:11) at queryCallback (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mongo db-core/lib/cursor.js:212:36) From previous event: at MongoStore.setAutoRemoveAsync (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/connect-mon go/src/index.js:129:40) at MongoStore.handleNewConnectionAsync (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/conne ct-mongo/src/index.js:121:18) at MongoStore (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/connect-mongo/src/index.js:89: 26) at module.exports (/home/ktyc/meanjs/config/lib/socket.io.js:73:20) at Object.module.exports.configureSocketIO (/home/ktyc/meanjs/config/lib/exp ress.js:213:38) at Object.module.exports.init (/home/ktyc/meanjs/config/lib/express.js:257:1 4) at /home/ktyc/meanjs/config/lib/app.js:25:23 at /home/ktyc/meanjs/config/lib/mongoose.js:38:15 at /home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/lib/connection.js:316:19 at open (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/lib/connection.js:682:17) at NativeConnection.Connection.onOpen (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoo se/lib/connection.js:692:5) at /home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/lib/connection.js:652:11 at /home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/lib/drivers/node-mongodb-native/c onnection.js:71:5 at /home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mongodb/lib/db.js:23 8:5 at Server.connectHandler (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/node_modul es/mongodb/lib/server.js:339:7) at Server.g (events.js:292:16) at emitOne (events.js:96:13) at Server.emit (events.js:188:7) at /home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/top ologies/server.js:299:14 at /home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/con nection/pool.js:469:18 at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:73:7) at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:104:9)
@tengyong80
You’re totally right, when you use
sudoyou don’t need to use therootlogin, but your first post didn’t usesudoorroot.All the errors involves some type of permissions problem, so have a look at these: https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/fixing-npm-permissions https://til.codes/npm-install-failed-with-cannot-run-in-wd-2/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18136746/npm-install-failed-with-cannot-run-in-wd
Hi @tengyong80
From looking at the error log, it looks like you don’t have permissions to the
/opt/meandirectory with the current user you’re logged in as. So either change permissions to allow that user access - or run the commands asrootor withsudo.