Why is Ghost not installing correctly?

Still having this issue in 2020 :( Just installed an Ubuntu Droplet and went on here https://ghost.org/docs/install/ubuntu/?_ga=2.65752169.678147745.1592695501-1319289443.1592695501#create-a-directory

Works like a charm

Still having this issue, installing ghost directly from the ready droplet is completely broken

Another reason it would not install correctly is if the ghost database user account is not using the correct password during install. I ran into that problem, where I needed to update the password of the ghost user to the same password used in the install script. After that everything else worked as expected.

✔ Checking system Node.js version
✔ Checking logged in user
✔ Checking current folder permissions
✔ Checking operating system compatibility
✔ Checking for a MySQL installation
✔ Checking memory availability
✔ Checking for latest Ghost version
✔ Setting up install directory
✖ Downloading and installing Ghost v2.33.0
A ProcessError occurred.

Message: Command failed: yarn install --no-emoji --no-progress
warning ghost@2.33.0: The engine "cli" appears to be invalid.
error csv-parser@2.3.1: The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version ">= 8.16.0". Got "8.10.0"
error Found incompatible module.

Got this error with One Click install. Here’s a quick run down of what I did to resolve in the event that someone else encounters the same issue.

1. change to ghost user

sudo -i -u ghost-mgr

2. remove botched/broken install directory

sudo rm -r /var/www/ghost

3. add nodejs source (maybe unnecessary, idk)

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash 
4) run updates

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade

5) update nodejs

sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

6) recreate install dir and set permissions 

sudo mkdir /var/www/ghost sudo chown ghost-mgr:ghost-mgr /var/www/ghost

7) re-run install command. (just copy this from the terminal output of the failed install to get the command with your MYSQL pw. Will look like:

ghost install --auto --db=mysql --dbhost=localhost --dbname=ghost_production --dbuser=ghost --dbpass=veryNicePassword --dir=/var/www/ghost --start

That did the trick for me. Worth note, I first tried on a $5 droplet and then moved to a $10 droplet based on comments above. I don't think that matters though and I'm guessing the above fix would work on $5 droplet as well. 

same here. tried the “click once” option and now stuck in hell.

can’t run any ghost commands because

Run `ghost config` again within a folder where Ghost was installed with Ghost-CLI.```

i figured out command needs to be run from `/var/www/ghost` but no matter what i do, i still get `502 Bad Geteway` when i try to go to http://my_ip/ghost

Welll… bummerrrrrrrr… it doesn’t work… great. I was hoping to roll out a Ghost site in 1.2.3… but nothing…

Infuriating. Feel like I’m being “punked” trying to use this system. I’ve been trying for months. I RTFM and have followed directions in the docs to create a “one-click” Ghost. It’s just unusable, inexcusable. “One-click” is misused here.

Still having same issue on 2019, really sucks…

has this been fix yet? , having the same issue

Same problem here. Ended up installing it on my own.