Error installing Meteor on linux x86_64 chrome os

Question

I am trying to install Meteor on the HP14 Chromebook. It is a linx x86_64 chrome os system.

Each time I try to install it I run into errors.

The first time I tried to install it the installer just downloaded the Meteor preengine but never downloaded the tarball or installed the actual meteor application structure.

So, I decided to try as sudo.

sudo curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh

This definitely installed it because you can see it when ls

chronos@localhost ~/projects $ chronos@localhost ~/projects $ ls /home/chronos/user/.meteor/ bash: chronos@localhost: command not found

Now when I try to run meteor --version or meteor create myapp without sudo I get the following error.

```` chronos@localhost ~/projects $ meteor create myapp '/home/chronos/user/.meteor' exists, but '/home/chronos/user/.meteor/meteor' is not executable.

Remove it and try again. ````

When I try to run sudo meteor --version or sudo meteor create myapp I get this error.

chronos@localhost ~/projects $ sudo meteor create myapp mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/root/.meteor-install-tmp’: Read-only file system

Any ideas? Thinking I have to make that partition writeable. I made partition 4 writeable.

Maybe you can fix this just by making '/home/chronos/user/.meteor/meteor' executable (chmod +x) — antlersoft, Mar 23 '14 at 22:47
The chromebook is not an x86 processor like a PC. Therefore you need to compile from source with an appropriate compiler. But even then there are reports of trouble. — Paul, Mar 23 '14 at 22:48
Possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18385767/meteor-js-on-samsung-armv71-chromebook-series-3 — Paul, Mar 23 '14 at 22:49
You also might consider a cloud development environment like nitrous.io or c9.io so you can edit with your web browser and run on a VPS. — Paul, Mar 23 '14 at 22:50
@antlsoft I have tried that but it doesn't seem to work. I suspect that isn't working more so because I might need to do this to the root sudo /usr/share/vboot/bin/make_dev_ssd.sh --remove_rootfs_verification — Steeve Cannon, Mar 23 '14 at 23:02

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 04 '14 at 02:35

Put your chrome book into dev mode.

http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices

Boot into dev mode.

ctrl-alt t to crosh

shell sudo su - cd /usr/share/vboot/bin/ ./make_dev_ssd.sh --remove_rootfs_verification --partitions 4 reboot

After rebooting

sudo su - mount -o remount,rw / mount -o remount,exec /mnt/stateful_partition

Write yourself a read/write script

sudo vim /sbin/rw

 #!/bin/bash
  echo "Making FS Read/Write"
  sudo mount -o remount,rw /
  sudo mount -o remount,exec /mnt/stateful_partition
  sudo mount -i -o remount,exec /home/chronos/user
  echo "You should now have full Read/Write access"
  exit

Change permissions on script

sudo chmod a+x /sbin/rw

Run to set read/write root

sudo rw

Install Meteor as indicated on www.meteor.com via curl and meteor create works!

Alternatively you can edit the chomeos_startup though that might not be the best idea. It is probably best to have read/write on demand as illustrated above.

cd /sbin sudo sudo vim chromeos_startup

Go to lines 51 and 58 and remove the noexec options from the mount command.

Down at the bottom of the script, above the note about ureadahead and below the if statement, add in:

mount -o remount,exec /mnt/stateful_partition 
#uncomment this to mount root r/w on boot 
mount -o remount,rw /

Again, editing chromeos_startup probably isn't the best idea unless you are so lazy you can't type sudo rw.

Enjoy.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 22 '17 at 03:17

This is super easy to fix!!

Just run this (or put it in .bashrc or .zshrc to make it permanent):

sudo mount -i -o remount,exec /home/chronos/user

Based on your question (you are using sudo) I assume you already have Dev Mode enabled, which is required for the above sudo command to work.

ChromeOS mounts the home folder using the noexec option by default, and this command remounts it with exec instead. And boom, Meteor will work just fine after that (and so will a bunch of other programs running out of your home folder).

Original tip: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/issues/928

Error installing Meteor on linux x86_64 chrome os

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