More detailed installation tips for linux

[make-github-pseudonymous-again]

On linux, the meteor installation script needs tar and gzip. Add line in installation steps about this.

[make-github-pseudonymous-again]

Also git clone needs git and meteor npm install needs python.

[make-github-pseudonymous-again]

python2 to be precise and also make.

[make-github-pseudonymous-again]

and g++/gcc and sed

[make-github-pseudonymous-again]

meteor mongo needs ps

[make-github-pseudonymous-again]

Also, a weird error can happen for people using MongoDB for the first time on a fresh linux install: MongoDB needs /etc/default/locale to be filled with stuff. Failing to do so will result in the cryptic error

Unexpected mongo exit code 1. Restarting.
Unexpected mongo exit code 1. Restarting.
Unexpected mongo exit code 1. Restarting.
Can't start Mongo server.

Tell me if I can just edit the README and send you a pull request with all those changes.

[edemaine]

Are there UNIX systems without tar, gzip, sed, and ps? I thought these were part of the base install on all known UNIXes, but I guess not. Which one? (For example, with a base Ubuntu install, I didn't have to add anything.)

I feel like these are Meteor issues, not directly Coauthor related. Meteor installation should only be necessary on the development machine, not the deployment server (as mup should handle everything needed on there). So I'm unclear why you're starting with such a bare machine... (Or are you not going to use mup?)

[make-github-pseudonymous-again]

Arch Linux

[edemaine]

https://www.archlinux.org/groups/i686/base/ ?

[make-github-pseudonymous-again]

I agree this is not a common Linux issue. The information could be in the README in a one-liner that says: "Make sure to have tar, gzip, git, python (version 2.x), make, g++, sed and ps installed, as well as your /etc/default/locale properly configured."

[make-github-pseudonymous-again]

Ok maybe, this is because I used the base/archlinux docker container.

[make-github-pseudonymous-again]

Ok, the base group should be installed.

[make-github-pseudonymous-again]

The base group does NOT contain git, python2, make, gcc.

[jbosboom]

gcc and make are in base-devel; git and python2 are in their eponymous packages. In general, run pacman -Fy to download the files database, then pacman -Fo <file> to see which package owns a file (e.g, pacman -Fo usr/bin/ps), or pacman -Fs <file> to search by filename (e.g., pacman -Fs ps).

[make-github-pseudonymous-again]

@jbosboom What is the difference with pacman -Qo which I used?

[make-github-pseudonymous-again]

The backup.sh script needs mongodump which is found in mongodb-tools on Arch (optional dependency of mongodb so not automatically installed).

[edemaine]

Added documentation about this to backup.sh script. I don't think it's useful to document here how to install Meteor, as that's a Meteor issue, not specific to Coauthor.