Adapt Learning Community: Troubles installing Authoring Tool on Mac OS 10.12.6

Dear friends,

I would love to get some help on this. I do not have much command line experience and also some technical terms are hard for me to understand too, but I'm pretty good in following instructions. If someone could help me, that would be great.

I just need to install it but it stops where I should commend: adapt create course - it just says command cannot be found. I have done a lot already, and have just started from scratch with another user account to avoid mis installations in my previous trials.

It also mentioned some error about home-brew versus yarn. Tried to work on that too but it is very confusing.

Please someone help, this is very important and you would make a great difference for me here. Thanks in advance,

Hi Monica

It would help a bit if you could tell us:

What you're trying to do (the subject line says 'installing authoring tool' but 'adapt create course' is not a command you'd need to run if doing that, as far as I know)
What instructions you're following (provide a link please)
What you've tried so far
What errors you're getting/have got on the way

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Hi Matt!

Thank you so much for your prompt reply.

I really want to install the authoring tool on my mac. I did download the .ZIP (adapt_authoring-master.zip), and followed the link on there to "Install Authoring Tool"- from there I tried the Developer install - not server install . I did try to install all the prerequisites, and they now look like:

npm has version 5.6.0

git has version 2.15.0

node v8.9.1

grunt-cli v1.2.0

All the others (nodist ,nvm ,ffmpeg ,mongod )

show as "-bash: (name): command not found".

If you could help me from that point on, it would be great. Also, maybe there is a better way of doing that and I am 100% open to your advices.

Thanks so much again. Kindest regards,

Monica A.

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All I need is to have it installed in my computer so I can learn how to use it.

Thanks again.

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Hi Monica,

Have you looked into the Adapt-authoring-standalone installer?

It's an installer that does all the hard work of setting up the Authoring Tool on the computer for you, saving you the need of installing the additional tools you need such as Node, Grunt and MongoDB

Note it's not created or maintained by the core Adapt team.

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The standalone installer is for Windows only at the moment, Simon...

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Ah sorry my mistake

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Thank you both for your help. I will find a Windows machine to install that onto. Thanks again

Monica

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OK so two obvious problems:

1) you're running too recent a version of Node - they recently changed the LTS release from 6.x to 8.x and the authoring tool hasn't caught up yet.

2) I'm not seeing anywhere in the instructions that says you need to run adapt create course so I'm not sure why you are doing that

I would suggest you start again, perhaps this time using the server install instructions as they contain more detail. Or, you can find a computer running Windows, use the standalone version.

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