Error installing Meteor on linux x86_64 chrome os - meteor

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.

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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