Whats the simplest way to get a barebones linux server installed?
barebones = just enough to get ssh and package manager.
Current I've been using CentOS with server install and removing any packages that I know i do not want installed.
But is there a better way? I just want a simple ssh shell + package management to start with. Hardware is irrelevant since everything is happening in a VM.
Debian Stable net install.
Once you have that installed and up and running, you can apt-get or aptitude install whatever packages you want. That's how I set up my servers.
If you have the time installing Gentoo will give you just want you want and no more.
Arch just
su -c 'pacman -S sshd'
then you have about as barebones as you can get. Pacman its package management system is pretty easy to use and what not also.
You know the guys over at SliceHost have some very nice documentation on setting up Linux VM's. http://articles.slicehost.com/ubuntu-intrepid I am using their service and I found their documentation to be excellent. Particularly in getting a barebones VM up and running. I use their documentation as a reference for setting up iptables firewall and other basic system tasks on other systems. Hope this helps.
JEOS - Just Enough Operating System, an Ubuntu project, should be exactly what you are looking for.
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I need to have access to Virtualbox from within the WSL, I have tried to sudo apt-get install virtualbox but I end up with the following error:
WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
Please install the virtualbox-dkms package and the appropriate
headers, most likely linux-headers-3.4.0+.
You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
4.3.36_Ubuntur105129
Vagrant is now capable of detecting that it is running on WSL.
How to configure Windows and WSL to enable this feature is described on Vagrant website
They claim it's an advanced feature but the configuration seems quite straightforward.
Unfortunately, that will not work (at least for now), as explained here: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/549
Can anyone please provide a detailed process of installing an Emulator on Linux and accessing the Mainframe from it. I have gone through almost all on net and I am unable to get through it.
There are very few 3270 emulators for Linux, including vendor products. The most common one is x3270 which you can install using the standard package installers. For example, sudo apt-get install x3270 on an Ubuntu system.
Try the MVS turnkey system: http://www.bsp-gmbh.com/turnkey/
I also had issues trying to do it "from scratch" but turnkey sets it all up nicely.
I wish to use an alternative to ColdFusion. Researching Railo, I found the pointers to Lucee. There do not appear to be any docs explaining how to set up a Linux/Apache/Tomcat/MySQL platform for Lucee, and then install Lucee on top of it. I've tried setting up such a platform for Railo, but got stuck trying to get Railo talking to Apache over both http and https.
I wish to avoid the "all in one" installers that include Tomcat, as I'd like to use yum to keep Tomcat up to date on security patches.
If I've just overlooked the Lucee docs, can someone please point me to them? And if they don't exist, how could one "translate" the Railo docs to work with Lucee, and get the Apache-Lucee connection working?
UPDATE 2016-04-06: Thanks to all who answered. It looks like you've helped a number of people! I never was able to get Lucee running, but this was for lack of time, not lack of instructions. The powers that be also decided to move to an outsourced web design and hosting solution, and the firm that won the bid uses Drupal.
For Linux installs (Ubuntu) Digital Ocean has a great tutorial on installing Railo. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-railo-cfml-engine-with-tomcat-and-apache-on-a-debian-7-or-ubuntu-13-vps
You can follow these same instructions to install Lucee just...
replace
wget www.getrailo.org/down.cfm?item=/railo/remote/download/4.1.1.009/tomcat/linux/railo-4.1.1.009-pl0-linux-x64-installer.run -O railo.run
with:
wget http://lucee.viviotech.net/downloader.cfm/id/136/file/lucee-4.5.1.022-pl0-linux-x64-installer.run -O railo.run
And everything else is the same.
note - If you want to get the latest installer just go to http://lucee.org/downloads.html scroll down to the Installers section and right-click the Linux 64-Bit link and copy the link url. Then replace the link in the wget above with the one you just copied.
Installation of Lucee on your local machine, following this help link : How to Set Up Railo CFML Engine with Tomcat and Apache on a Debian 7 or Ubuntu 13 VPS
Open your terminal and follow the instruction given below
Commands :
aptitude update
aptitude -y upgrade
Installing Apache
aptitude -y install apache2
Install Lucee
wget http://cdn.lucee.org/downloader.cfm/id/143/file/lucee-4.5.2.018-pl0-linux-x64-installer.run -O lucee.run
chmod 744 lucee.run
run sudo ./lucee.run
Follow the instructions.
That's it ..
To complement and for posterity, I'm adding this answer with new actual information. I've created a step by step video guide about installing Lucee on a clean Ubuntu Server 20.04.LTS and added them as a contribution to the official documentation. You can find the quick video guide at https://docs.lucee.org/guides/installing-lucee/installation-linux/linux-ubuntu-quick-video-guide.html
so that summed up is:
Follow this:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-railo-cfml-engine-with-tomcat-and-apache-on-a-debian-7-or-ubuntu-13-vps
replace with this:
wget
http://lucee.viviotech.net/downloader.cfm/id/143/file/lucee-4.5.2.018-pl0-linux-x64-installer.run
-O lucee.run
OR
wget
http://d8yjolse1mixx.cloudfront.net/downloader.cfm/id/143/file/lucee-4.5.2.018-pl0-linux-x64-installer.run
-O lucee.run
based on the version here:
http://lucee.viviotech.net or http://lucee.org/downloads.html
Drop the Jar or War install file into the correct folder for your J2EE engine. Or use your engine's admin pages into install the that file.
Config changes can also be made to more fully integrate across instances.
Almost any engine will do: Jetty, Tomcat, GlassFish, JBoss and Elastic Beanstalk are all good choices.
Lucee is also now fully OSGi compliant.
The easiest way to get started with Lucee is by using Ortus Solutions' CommandBox. CommandBox comes with an embedded Lucee server so you can be up and running in just minutes. CommandBox is a standalone, native tool for Windows, Mac, and Linux that will provide you with a Command Line Interface (CLI), package management, embedded CFML server and application scaffolding.
Does Meteor support developing on Windows? I did not see any downloads or mention of Windows in the docs.
The "Quick Start" assumes you are on *Nix OS.
Meteor 1.1+: official Windows support launched on https://win.meteor.com/
Meteor 1.0+: there is an official Windows preview.
Meteor 0.8 and older: see http://win.meteor.com/
Proof, Meteor running on Windows.
Edit: See Tom's answer.
Old answer below.
No, this is not yet supported on windows. If you try to install in you will receive the following error:
Sorry, this OS is not supported yet.
As a workaround you can run a linux box in a VM and use that as a server to run meteor but still do all development from within windows. I've done this using VirtualBox to run Ubuntu with no GUI. Here's the steps:
Install VirtualBox
Grab Ubuntu ISO
Setup Ubuntu VM using VirtualBox (just follow the wizard steps)
Install samba on VM to enable file access from windows. This article was a great help.
Install ssh using Ubuntu Software Center. This was helpful.
Shutdown VM and run from a DOS prompt using vboxheadless -startvm "VM Name"
You can then use a ssh client (I'm using cygwin) to connect to the box to run commands e.g. ssh user#box_ip_address
Can browse and edit files using windows file share e.g. \\box_ip_address\share
Can run meteor apps within local browser, just replace the localhost in the address that meteor assigns with the ip address of the box.
I just tried to install it with curl on Windows 7, and got:
Sorry, this OS is not supported yet.
A substantial update as the existing answers to this question are very out of date.
Official Windows support can be found at https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Preview-of-Meteor-on-Windows
Unofficial Windows support for Meteor can be found on http://win.meteor.com/
There are 3 solutions outlined on win.meteor.com, one native MSI installer, and 2 virtualized solutions based on Vagrant:
1) MSI Installer:
Stephen Darnell has picked up where Tom Wijsman graciously left off.
This solution is the most straight forward way to get Meteor running
on Windows with an MSI Installer provided. There are some trade-offs
because this is a fork and can lag behind the latest version as
Stephen can update to and test the latest version.
2) Vagrant Shell Provisioning
Gabriel Pugliese has posted a guide for how to provision Meteor on
Linux with Vagrant's Shell Provisioning. These may be more accessible
to users familier with Linux and Shell scripts. This solution is
easier to tweak through the straight forward shell commands than the
Chef alternative.
3) Vagrant Chef Provisioning
Matthew Sullivan is maintaining a set of Vagrant files, Chef cookbook,
and guide for provisioning Meteor on Linux with Vagrant. This Chef
solution is a slightly more automated and configurable than the shell
solution, however likely not as simple to tweak beyond the provided
configuration parameters as the Shell solution.
GitHub Repos and details can be found on win.meteor.com. The three authors are very responsive on the Meteor-talk Google Group.
A bit of history:
Unofficial Windows support for Meteor was started by Tom Wijsman, and was supported by Tom until 0.5.9. Versions 0.6.0 and later are by Stephen Darnell, Gabriel Pugliese, and Matt Sullivan.
I do not see Nitrous.io mentioned here.
I am using Nitrous.io together with Nitrous Desktop, which allows you to use your favourite text editor (in my case, Sublime Text).
There is a quick tutorial here and Discover Meteor also deals with this in chapter 2.
It sounds like Windows is not supported yet. If you want to play with it, I would suggest grabbing VirtualBox and installing your favorite flavor of Linux on it.
I downloaded the above .msi installer and installed to c:\Meteor
Add the c:\Meteor directory you just made to your PATH environment variable.
Run the following command: npm install Meteor-Test-Installer
Add the C:\Meteor\bin\node_modules\npm\bin directory you just made to your PATH environment variable.
Log below from my DOS screen:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\mike>cd\
C:\>cd meteor
C:\Meteor>cd C:\Meteor\bin\node_modules\npm\bin
C:\Meteor\bin\node_modules\npm\bin>meteor create try-meteor
try-meteor: created.
To run your new app:
cd try-meteor
meteor
C:\Meteor\bin\node_modules\npm\bin>curl
‘curl’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
C:\Meteor\bin\node_modules\npm\bin>cd try-meteor
C:\Meteor\bin\node_modules\npm\bin\try-meteor>meteor
[[[[[ C:\Meteor\bin\node_modules\npm\bin\try-meteor ]]]]]
Initializing mongo database… this may take a moment.
Running on: http://localhost:3000/
Open http://localhost:3000/ in broswer ... Voila !!
Hello World!
Welcome to try-meteor.
If you get error like this below :
{
[[[[[ D:\sms\Apps\Meteor\bin\node_modules\npm\bin\try-meteor ]]]]]
Unexpected mongo exit code 127. Restarting.
Unexpected mongo exit code 127. Restarting.
////////////////////////////////////////
////////////////////////////////////////
meteor is out of date. Please run:
meteor update
////////////////////////////////////////
////////////////////////////////////////
Unexpected mongo exit code 127. Restarting.
Can't start mongod. Check for other processes listening on port 3002 or other me
teors running in the same project.
}
Update the MondoDB folder with the latest mogodb files from the mongodb site.
I've found that new coders who are also new to Meteor might have installed it correctly, but are having trouble figuring out how to open and run it. So I'll just address that issue in this post.
1) I assume you went here: http://win.meteor.com/ and downloaded the MSI installer
2) I assume you then created a newapp in meteor and then ran meteor
3) If steps 1 & 2 are complete, you should see this in your command line:
Initializing mongo database... this may take a moment.
=> Meteor server running on: http://localhost:3000/
4) Open Chrome and type in the local host address: http://localhost:3000/
5) Open your newapp folder - should be located in your Meteor folder wherever its installed on your hard drive
6) Open your newapp.html, newapp.css, and newapp.js files in your favorite editor (like Sublime Text 2)
7) Begin editing these files as you like and watch your page automatically update, as Meteor is designed to do.
Voila!! You're building with Meteor. Enjoy!!
As of two days ago, a preview version is available here:
https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Preview-of-Meteor-on-Windows
Recent check of their site and checking their FAQ, you'll find the Meteor Development Roadmap. They host it on Trello and after the 1.0 launch, you'll see "Official Windows Support." So, it's on the map - now we wait!
https://trello.com/board/meteor-roadmap/508721606e02bb9d570016ae
Using linux in VM you probably want meteorite which isn't easy if you are as bad as I am to Linux... Here's how (thank you johntday Unable to install meteorite on Ubuntu VM):
Here are my Install Steps
Update and Upgrade your Ubuntu Depending on how up-to-date your image is, this may take a while.
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
Install curl sudo apt-get install curl
Install node http://lucidservices.com/2013/09/17/install-node-on-ubuntu/
Install meteor curl https://install.meteor.com | sh
Install meteorite sudo -H npm install -g meteorite
If you have problems setting a high screen resolution, here's a fix:
http://youtu.be/t36wXUu1UtQ
My host is Bluehost. My server is on Linux.
I have tried to follow the tutorial.
You can quite easily compile it from source, with the usual ./configure && make && sudo make install commands.
See "How to install git". Specifically the Mac OS X section (which applies to Linux also)
If the machine doesn't have apt-get, then chances are it isn't a Debian or Ubuntu machine, which means that using a tutorial designed for Debian or Ubuntu is unlikely to get you very far.
Either use the packaged releases for whatever Linux distribution you are running, or build from source.
Get the source from http://git.or.cz/
Maybe you have the same problem I have that I cannot have an outgoing connection but I can have an incoming connection, that´s why I cannot use apt-get. What I do to move files is just use WinSCP and move the files there and after do whatever I want with them.