There was a problem cloning repo: https://github.com/meteor/meteor.git

[Spiralis]

Installation of Meteorite on my Ubuntu 12.10. After Meteor installation I had to patch in a link to the meteor npm from /usr/bin, so it should be using the right npm. I then added meteorite as described in the website:

npm install -g meteorite

This also worked out fine (except not being able to create fast compilations of some dependencies, but since the installer explicitly said that this would work anyway I was not concerned.

I then had to link the mrt file into /url/bin/mrt too.

I now tried to run the app via Meteorite, with abysmal results:

ronny@Ubuntu-Dev:~/dev/MyApp$ mrt

Stand back while Meteorite does it's thing

Installing Meteor

branch: https://github.com/meteor/meteor.git#master

Installing smart packages

/usr/lib/meteor/lib/node_modules/meteorite/lib/sources/git.js:108
throw "There was a problem cloning repo: " + self.url;
^
There was a problem cloning repo: https://github.com/meteor/meteor.git

The funny thing is that I am running via a Oracle VirtualBox, since my windows PC complained about the exact same problem when I tried getting this working. Instead I installed VirtualBox and Ubuntu 12.10, just because of that problem in Windows. And - now I get the same problem once again, in Ubuntu 12.10. I find that really weird. Anyone able to shed a light on this?

[tmeasday]

This issue is due to git not being installed on the machine you are using (or at least not available in meteorite's PATH).

[Spiralis]

You are probably right. I'll verify soon. I didn't even consider that to be an option, since on my Windows box I got the same error while running the comnand from a Git Bash console.

[alex-okrushko]

@tmeasday I have the same problem, however I do have git installed and on the path
I'm in the Windows 7 environment

D:\work\meteor>mrt.cmd add angularjs

Installing Meteor

  branch: https://github.com/meteor/meteor.git#master

Installing smart packages


C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\meteorite\lib\sources\git.
        throw "There was a problem cloning repo: " + self.url;
                                                   ^
There was a problem cloning repo: https://github.com/meteor/meteor.git

D:\work\meteor>git --version
git version 1.8.0.msysgit.0

D:\work\meteor>

[tmeasday]

Hi Alex. That message gets thrown if a git clone command fails, which usually corresponds to git not being installed, although it's certainly possible that there's another explanation.

I wouldn't expect meteorite to work on windows anyway, considering that meteor itself doesn't (you need to use @TomWij's fork, and I'm not really sure what his installer does). But good luck!

[alex-okrushko]

@tmeasday, I'm using @TomWij's windows installer and meteor works fine :)
The git is working fine on windows as well (including the git clone command) and, as you might have noticed, it's installed and is in the PATH: git --version output in previous comment outputs: git version 1.8.0.msysgit.0.
I still think that it's something that meteorite does Unix-likish so it fails in Windows.
Thanks.

[tmeasday]

You are probably right. The thing is that meteorite installs it's own versions of meteor, so it won't use @TomWij's version. I'm not sure if anyone has had any success getting meteorite working on Windows.

[alex-okrushko]

The only way for now is:

1. Copy/clone the packages from their repositories
2. make a directory at %programfiles%/meteor/packages/<package name> (name has to match the package)
3. copy the cloned content (*.js files including package.js) to the newly created folder
4. run meteor add <package-name>

[tmeasday]

Right, well having to follow a process like this the main reason we created meteorite in the first place.

I won't have time to work on it myself, but I'd happily accept patches which fix any windows mistakes we've made and integrate properly with Tom's installer.

[nickjanssen]

Thanks for the workaround alex! Beats SSHing in my virtual box all the time, phew!

[ajbetteridge]

I'm just had the same error message as mentioned in the OP, but not in a VM environment, just plain Ubuntu 12.10. It turned out that (for whatever reason) ~/.meteorite/source was owned by root instead of me, chown'ing this back to me let the meteorite do it's stuff without any more complaints.

[webeng]

Hello, I am trying to install Telescope on my mac. I've followed all the steps mentioned on the telescope page and there is no way to install it.

I get this error every time I run "mrt" or "sudo mrt"

"Stand back while Meteorite does its thing
smart.json changed.. installing from smart.json
✓ router
branch: git://github.com/tmeasday/meteor-router.git#master
✓ database-forms
branch: git://github.com/SachaG/database-forms.git#master
✓ moment
tag: https://github.com/possibilities/meteor-moment.git#v1.7.0

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/meteorite/lib/sources/git.js:108
throw "There was a problem cloning repo: " + self.url;
^
There was a problem cloning repo: https://github.com/possibilities/meteor-moment.git"

I've been trying to install it for more than 4 hours and if somebody can give me a hand, I'll appreciate it. Thanks

[tmeasday]

@webeng -- sounds odd. I'd try following the troubleshooting instructions from here: https://github.com/oortcloud/meteorite/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#troubleshooting

[ceuk]

Thanks alex-okrushko for that awesome workaround. You just made my day!