Meteor: Add option to install Meteor on Windows in a custom location

Created on 21 May 2015 · 3Comments · Source: meteor/meteor

I am not able to install Meteor in Windows OS under specific directory. Whenever I click the .exe file the installation is happening somewhere...

How can I change the behavior? I need to install them in a specific directory. Then only I can specify the directory easily in my classpath

Otherwise Meteor command is will not work.

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zarub2k

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Currently, it's being installed inside %LOCALAPPDATA%\.meteor. Is that not sufficient for your needs?

stubailo on 21 May 2015

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We wrote up instructions for how to manually install Meteor on Windows without the installer: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Meteor-on-Windows:-Alternate-installation. You can change the directory you extract Meteor into and it should still work.

Hope this helps!

avital on 18 Jun 2015

In most corporate IT managed machines, Users\ has size limitations. I just received an email from IT saying C:\Users[User]\AppData\Local.meteor was 3.6Gb and I needed to move it elsewhere.

First I tired to just copy .meteor into another location and it failed with "the filenames are too long for the destination folder ... "
Then I tried to uninstall meteor (to reinstall it manually based on instructions above) but there is no uninstaller. So I manually deleted .meteor and searched in regedit for all the instances of 'meteor' and deleted the correponding keys.