How to install atmosphere packages without meteorite?

Question

mrt currently has a bug with spaces in Volume names on the Mac https://github.com/oortcloud/meteorite/issues/172.

Until that is fixed, how can I manually install packages from atmosphere?

Limon

Answer 1

You can create a directory called /packages in your project & then manually install each package and its dependencies. e.g for 'meteor router'

in /packages

git clone https://github.com/tmeasday/meteor-router.git
mv meteor-router router

git clone --recursive https://github.com/tmeasday/meteor-page-js-ie-support.git
mv meteor-page-js-ie-support page-js-ie-support

The second is a dependency on meteor router which you can see on the package's atmosphere page. It's recursive to make sure the submodule pages-js is also git cloned in.

Meteor 0.65+

As pointed out by thatjuan: Once you do this, you just need to add the main one to your project. You don't have to add the dependencies.

meteor add router

Libre

if i'm not mistaken, don't i also need to add some entries to a packages.json? I'm sure I read this somewhere but I just can't remember where. – Limon

i tried it and it worked! but how did you know to rename the files as you did? what if i'm installing another package, how would i know to rename the files and to what filenames? there was no indication in the readme on the github entry for meteor-router to rename as such. – Limon

You wouldn't have to edit the smart.json or anything, you don't need meteorite to use the above & it ignores these files too, meaning you can use it on windows too. You have to rename the directory to whatever the package's name is on atmosphere – Libre

I found that after 0.6.5 you also have to add the package to .meteor/packages (using meteor add). I was trying with iron-router, and this was the only way to get it working. – Anatolia

Answer 2

meteor router also needs HTML5-History-API

git clone --recursive https://github.com/tmeasday/meteor-HTML5-History-API.git

remove meteor and the folder should look like this HTML5-History-API

then meteor add router

Gyve