I installed Meteor for Windows 7. On my computer, I have two partitions of my hard drive: C: for operating system, and D: for everything else. The C: drive has just enough space for the OS, so I wanted to install Meteor on D:. However, the installer directly installed onto C, and the installation stopped halfway through saying that it ran out of space.
I deleted some files to restart the installation (bad idea on my part). Specifically, I removed from the AppData\Local.meteor directory, the meteorsession file, prefetch files, and the PackageCache directory. I also deleted the PATH environment variable set up by the installation (only the AppData\Local.meteor directory; the other paths I didn't delete).
So I restarted my computer and started to install again and this time it doesn't download anything and just jumps directly to the "Meteor has now been installed" screen. I'm guessing that there's some leftover files hiding around somewhere that the installer uses to check to see if Meteor has already been installed. So what should I do to clear these/what's the actual cause of the issue?
Thanks!
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My problem: I am able to build a nice website locally using Jekyll and the Skinny Bones theme, but when I upload my contents to GitHub the build fails.
System information: Running macOS 12.5, Jekyll 4.2.2, most up-to-date version of gems (managed by Bundler). Clean install of everything this morning.
What I've done:
Downloaded all relevant software and built out a GitHub Pages repo
per these instructions and the GitHub Pages instructions.
Cloned the project (let's call it project.github.io), unzipped the Skinny Bones theme inside that directory, got everything set up.
The directory now looks like:
Gemfile
Gemfile.lock
README.md
jekyll
_site
_pages
_layouts
a whole lot more
I build everything how I wanted it, navigated to the jekyll folder, and built it using bundle exec jekyll build and checked it interactively using bundle exec jekyll serve. Everything worked well, no errors, functioned as expected.
I then navigated to the project.github.io directory, added everything and pushed it successfully, then got the settings configured for GitHub pages (e.g., set it to the right branch, etc.).
This is where the problem occurs. I notice that the build failed, examined the error log, and see this in the output, two lines:
Conversion error: Jekyll::Converters::Scss encountered an error while converting 'jekyll/css/main.scss': File to import not found or unreadable: variables. Load path: /usr/local/bundle/gems/jekyll-theme-primer-0.6.0/_sass on line 10
/usr/local/bundle/gems/jekyll-sass-converter-1.5.2/lib/jekyll/converters/scss.rb:123:in "rescue in convert": File to import not found or unreadable: variables. (Jekyll::Converters::Scss::SyntaxError)
The build has therefore failed, and my pages are not rendering. Furthermore, these are supported dependencies, per the GitHub documentation. I have verified that I have the same version of theme-primer installed.
Can anyone help me diagnose this problem?
I have solved this issue. The problem is that even though I was pushing all material from the parent, I was building locally from a /blog subdirectory inside my project.github.io parent directory. This was cloned directly from GitHub. When I tried to build locally from the parent, I got the same error as I was getting on GitHub, which tipped me off to what might be going on.
When I moved everything up to the parent directory level and rebuilt from parent, everything worked as expected and just as it did from initially building inside /blog. I pushed to GitHub, the build process completed, and the GitHub page was served.
Hopefully this will be helpful for someone else who might have this issue. Jekyll is adamant about directory hierarchy.
I am aware how to silently install 'R for Windows', but how could I update an existing installation silently to a new version?
Install switches I am currently using:
\\foo\R\R_4.0.5\R-4.0.5-win.exe /VERYSILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /NORESTART /ALLUSERS /LANGUAGE=en /COMPONENTS="main, x64, translations" /DIR="C:\Program Files\R"
For me, it seems like there is no supported update/upgrade switch. Just installing a new version over an existing one results in just having 2 versions listed in appwiz.cpl.
Forcing the same install dir is not helping either, as you still end up with 2 installations, just in the same folder.
Any hint is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
UPDATE:
I am trying to keep the installations on several machines aligned - therefor it would be helpful to update all machine installations periodically to the latest version and ensure the software inventory solution is not reporting N versions on a single machine.
R is designed so that you can have multiple versions installed simultaneously. This is why each version installs into a different directory.
The canonical way to handle this is to check a registry key for the latest installed version, but if you want to avoid messing with the registry, you can try this:
Install into a custom directory
When it comes to upgrading, move that directory to a temporary location
Install the newer version into the original location
If it works, delete the temp location
If it doesn't, delete the failed install and restore the original
Caveat: untested.
I have a vulnerability scanner that returns a finding for an outdated dotNET build - 2.1.17. This needs to be removed.
I have confirmed the file is in the right spot (C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.All\2.1.17) and I have deployed the updated version "2.1.25".
Unfortunately, 2.1.17 refuses to be removed - the latest dotnet-core-uninstall tool does not list it as an option, and it doesn't let me just hand-jam 2.1.17 as an -aspnet-runtime option either.
Somewhere on the 'net I found a suggestion that if I remove a certain SDK installation (5xx something - naturally can't find it again) that it would also remove the files. It didn't, and 2.1.17 is still there.
I also tried simply taking ownership of the directory in Windows and then removing it with RMDIR. The directory was removed and all the files were gone, but when I rebooted it looks like it was actually restored and now I'm stuck with 2.1.17 again.
I'm no Developer, so my experience with these packages is in deploying and removing them, which I've done successfully in the past either by deleting the folder (for a very old version) or this dotnet removal tool. I've not had the Runtime simply just not be removable.
Is there a way to get rid of these Runtimes without the dotnet tool?
EDIT: I followed Ian Kemp's advice below and it did briefly remove the 2.1.17 folder that was behind my finding, but it actually restores when the machine is rebooted (causing it to be flagged again).
The solution for me was to remove the 2.1.813 SDK, then manually TAKEOWN and RMDIR the offending directories, then reinstall 2.1.813 SDK.
I started to get "the system cannot find the path specified" running meteor in a project directory thats been ok for months, reboot etc not resolving it.
So I uninstalled meteor via control panel (windows 10) downloaded latest version for meteor.com site and reinstalled.
back in project directory I then got error "your not in meteor project directory" a bit of SO tells me the .meteor/release number could be incorrect. When I look in the .meteor director everything has disappeared apart from the local directory. This is the same in two separate project directories. It looks like the packages, releases ,version files etc have been removed - could or would the uninstall of meteor do this?
All seems a bit fragile....
Thanks
WampServer is installed on my computer.
I am wishing to install the RMySQL package.
The online documentation of the latter mentions:
Install a MySQL client library from http://www.mysql.com or http://dev.mysql.com. If you already installed a MySQL server, you may want to re-run the install to ensure that you also installed client header and library files. Note that Xampp doesn't include these.
I am confused I don't know which are these required 'header' and 'library' files. And, how do I know whether they are made available by WampServer? If it is not the case, can I simply add them somewhere to a WampServer folder (instead of uninstalling WampServer and installing Apache and its friends separatedly)?
Thanks,
Édouard
OK so I've just gone through the living hell that is installing RMySQL on Windows. But finally succeeded.
Binaries on windows are not supported, so the other answers saying this is "Simple" are wrong. Also a lot of the guides etc out there are outdated, or have broken links.
The best overall answer for MYSQL generally is to look at:
Using MySQL in R for Windows
Basically you have to install RTools in order to be able to compile the packages from source.
However specifically with WAMPServer, it doesn't install the .lib and client files. So what I did was go to MYSQL to find the exact same version of MYSQL as Wampserver had installed. I downloaded the zip file version. I compared the lib directories with a visual difference tool (Beyond Compare) and copied across the missing files into my WAMPServer MYSQL installation.
As per the guide above, I then copied:
libmysql.lib from mysql/lib to mysql/lib/opt to meet dependencies.
libmysql.dll to C:\Program Files\R\R-2.12.1\bin
Finally install.packages('RMySQL',type='source') worked
For people using WampServer in Windows and wanting to install RMySQL, I've adapted the instructions outlined here. I'm assuming you already have WampServer installed. I'll also use the file paths that I used on my computer, but keep in mind that your file paths may differ slightly (due to different versions, installations, etc.)
Install latest RTools from here.
Create a new file called Renviron.site in C:\Program Files\R\R-2.15.1\etc\, open the file in a text editor, and add a line like MYSQL_HOME="C:/wamp/bin/mysql/mysql5.6.12" (path to your mysql files). Make sure to use forward slashes and don't forget the quotes.
Click on your WampServer icon and go to MySQL, then Version. This will tell you what version of MySQL was included in your WampServer distribution.
Go to http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql and download and install the same version of MySQL that is included in your WampServer distribution.
Once you've gone through the complete installation, go to the folder where MySQL installed and copy the file called libmysql.lib, which can be found in the lib\ folder.
Now go to the lib\ folder in your WampServer directory (mine is C:\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.6.12\lib) and create a new folder called opt\.
Paste into this new opt folder the libmysql.lib file that you just copied.
You can now uninstall the MySQL server that you just downloaded, since we only needed that one file from it (which is apparently not included in the WampServer distribution).
Under C:\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.6.12\lib\, you'll also find libmysql.dll. Copy this to C:\Program Files\R\R-2.15.1\bin\i386\ (This works if you have 36 bit Windows like me. I think if you have 64 bit, you may just put it under the bin\ subdirectory instead of under bin\i386\, but please don't hold me to that.) I also copied the same file (libmysql.dll) to the C:\windows\system32\ directory, but I'm not sure if this is necessary.
In R, run install.packages('RMySQL',type='source') and hopefully the installation completes without any issues. You can then load the package as usual with library(RMySQL).
Note: I'm running 32 bit Windows, R-2.15.1, and a WampServer distribution that includes MySQL 5.6.12.