installing meteor on windows 10

Question

I've installed meteor through the official installer as the image shows:

But the command is still not working on my terminal even when I restart the machine! The .meteor folder on my /users/$USER$ folder is non-existent. How can I install meteor under Windows 10?

Ravishing

I also ran into this issue, but I was able to find the installation directory at %LOCALAPPDATA%\.meteor. Once I added that to my path, I was good to go. – Enlargement

Answer 1

I had the same problem, this is what I did.

I already had git installed on my computer for other reasons, but make sure you have git and 7z installed. Additionally, and I don't know if it's because my migration to Windows 10 wasn't horribly successful, but make sure that 7z is in the path. No need to reboot, just close the command window and reopen. Type 'path' command and it should have the 7z at the end where you added it.

Once you're ready, get where you want to install meteor. I just used my home directory, then type 'git clone http://github.com/meteor/meteor.git'

That will download the latest meteor from GitHub into a directory named meteor, once it's finished then you'll want to add that directory to your path as well. Again, close the command prompt window and reopen and use the path command to verify the path is there, and then start working on your new meteor projects.

Quest

But this will result in a checkout build, not a release build 1.1 or 1.2. Does anyone know how to install that? – Parbuckle

You can clone a repository with a specific branch : git clone -b release-1.2.1 http://github.com/meteor/meteor.git or git clone -b release-1.1 http://github.com/meteor/meteor.git – Alvera

be careful as you have to clone the repository recursively. use git clone --recursive git://github.com/meteor/meteor.git – Crowded

Answer 2

You need to open a command prompt with administrator privileges. So...

Start/Windows Icon > type "cmd" > right click on command prompt and choose "run as administrator" > Choose yes at the prompt > Now try "meteor" at the command prompt

Polyester

Answer 3

1. Run as administrator
2. If you go under system32, cd to user/<your_name>
3. meteor create myapp

I have done this on windows 10 and it's 100% working for me.

Banter

Answer 4

This has worked for me on Windows 10, after standard installer failed.

On some network or machine setups Meteor's installer for Windows may fail. In such cases, follow these simple steps to install Meteor manually.

Install 7-Zip or any other program that knows how to extract tar.gz files. Download the installation archive from here. In a command prompt, run echo %LocalAppData%.meteor -- this is the directory in which Meteor should be installed. Extract the installation archive into the directory above. Add this directory to your PATH environment variable. You should now be able to open a new command prompt and run meteor. Some versions of Windows may require restarting your machine first.

Tsui

Answer 5

This is how I got the command to work.

The following steps, resolved the issue.

Set the SYSTEM Environment Variable to:

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\.meteor

Or if you prefer, change to your username explicitly

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

Then as per the accepted answer on this question.

Create a file named meteor in the directory where the meteor.bat is. E.g. the path above.

Hint, you can use

touch meteor

Copy these lines into the file and save

#!/bin/sh
cmd //c "$0.bat" "$@"

Truckload

Answer 6

Please use the new 2021 installer if you intend to install Meteor on Windows.

Gulosity