I'm piloting a project for an agency with around 12,000 people with diverse training needs. I've shown proof of concept with an authoring tool installation on Linux, but they are going to give me grief about that, so I'm trying to do the same installation on Windows 10. Like others, I have everything in place.

I have the following in place:

Git-Bash installed, and have used it where required.
git version 2.15.0.windows.1
node v6.11.5
npm -v 4.0.5
grunt-cli v1.2.0
ffmpeg version N-89073-gff8f40a630
Downloaded Community Server > Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit and later, with SSL support x64:
mongodb-win32-x86_64-2008plus-ssl-3.4.10-signed
MongoDB is up and running according to Task Manager, and I make sure it's running when running "node install"

Used: git clone https://github.com/adaptlearning/adapt_authoring.git

Now, that said... In addition to the node install errors, there were warnings with "npm install":
npm WARN mongodb-core@1.2.21 requires a peer of kerberos@~0.0 but none was installed.
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: weak@1.0.1 (node_modules\weak):
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: weak@1.0.1 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Exit status 1

"Exit status 1" is pretty broad from what I've read. Could this be a "33" issue that needs the "hotmix" fix? I haven't got that error message "33" per se. 

This has to be really close. It seems as though the authoring tool can't find something it's expecting. 

Getting a Windows box running is imperative. Perhaps Windows 10 is too big a step from Linux? Windows 7 instead? Don't know. Any help or referral would be appreciated. 

--Thanks in advance.

Hi. Alas, it's literally a one-hundred-year-old agency that is Windows-based. I was told that they could swing giving me Admin rights to do the project, but Linux wouldn't be accepted. At the end of the day (see my addition to that thread) I was able to get the AT installed on a Windows 7 and the Win10 box in question. Good practice since I'll have to do it again when I get the agency box. 

People are excited about the prospect of getting some training on their phones and iPads, though. I've already tested the SCORM in the LMS, and after only minor editing of an offending tag, I was able to get to a "completed" status in PeopleSoft, which isn't that great of an LMS IMHO.

Thanks for asking. I'll be around asking MORE questions in the not-so-distant future. ;-)

--ch

Hello!

Since Mongoose is in there, and I set up and ran everything from the Admin Terminal, I would think that permissions would not be an issue; an application should be able to talk to another worker application at that level--but I'm just guessing. I know Windows on a need-to-know-basis. At the end of the day, I'm interested in authoring tools that empower the educator to empower the learner, if you will. ;-)

I do think this warrants a note in the documentation. If I found the issue, and someone else did as well, that means that there are probably others who found it, but didn't follow-up with a query, because they thought that this might be more time-consuming than they had hoped. It's a good feeling to get the AT up and running, and it's best to get the community to that point ASAP.

Incidentally, initially I tried the standalone package on the same Win10 computer, but it didn't work for me, and I saw that someone else with Win10 couldn't get it to launch either. So, I figured the odds of configuring everything myself and having it work on Linux were probably quite good. I also have to have the flexibility to make changes at will, so it made sense to pursue the full install with the agency project in mind. Eventually, I'd love to see a dedicated server that we could access from anywhere; the irony is that in such an instance, I would probably relinquish all control to contracted IT workers who would have to figure it out all over again. ;-)

At any rate, I'm lucky to have multiple computers at my disposal. I haven't tried the install on my Mac yet, but I've always found OSX easier to work with than Windows. 

To reiterate, I do think this issue and suggestions for its resolution are worth a mention in the documentation. Most of us aren't experts, but fall more closely into the category of Jack of All Trades. I used to do Perl scripting for another agency, and the Perl community's approach is something like "You only need to know as much about Perl as you need to get the job done." I try to combine that approach with "Just do it," which has served me well when up against bureaucracies. ;-)

Ciao! --dk