Adapt Learning Community: Help required: authoring tool Mac installation

I'm looking for some advice or guidance to help me install the Adapt Authoring Tool on a Mac.

MacOS High Sierra.
Version 10.13.3

I’ve followed the instructions to install the prerequisites and seem to come unstuck at ‘Install the Adapt Command Line Tools’.

I’m following the instructions outlined here: https://github.com/adaptlearning/adapt_authoring/wiki/Installing-Adapt-Origin#1

I have the following installed.

git version 2.16.2
node -v v8.10.0
npm -v 5.6.0
ffmpeg version 3.4.2
grunt-cli@1.2.0
MongoDB
and successfully cloned the Adapt_Authoring Project

I seem to be able to install -g grunt-cli. When I try to install -g adapt-cli, I come to this error message. I wondered if anyone could help me understand what is going wrong and gives some suggestions about how I can solve the problem.

I am new to this so not hugely technical. Thanks in advance.

Laura

Error message:

sudo npm install -g adapt-cli

/usr/local/bin/adapt -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/adapt-cli/bin/adapt

> nodegit@0.20.3 install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/adapt-cli/node_modules/nodegit

> node lifecycleScripts/preinstall && node lifecycleScripts/install

[nodegit] Running pre-install script

[nodegit] Configuring libssh2.

{ Error: Command failed: /usr/local/lib/node_modules/adapt-cli/node_modules/nodegit/vendor/libssh2/configure --with-libssl-prefix=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/adapt-cli/node_modules/nodegit/vendor/openssl/openssl

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/adapt-cli/node_modules/nodegit/vendor/libssh2/configure: line 2059: config.log: Permission denied

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/adapt-cli/node_modules/nodegit/vendor/libssh2/configure: line 2069: config.log: Permission denied

at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:275:12)

at emitTwo (events.js:126:13)

at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:214:7)

at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:925:16)

at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:209:5)

killed: false,

code: 1,

signal: null,

cmd: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/adapt-cli/node_modules/nodegit/vendor/libssh2/configure --with-libssl-prefix=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/adapt-cli/node_modules/nodegit/vendor/openssl/openssl' }

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/adapt-cli/node_modules/nodegit/vendor/libssh2/configure: line 2059: config.log: Permission denied

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/adapt-cli/node_modules/nodegit/vendor/libssh2/configure: line 2069: config.log: Permission denied

[nodegit] ERROR - Could not finish preinstall

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/adapt-cli/node_modules/nodegit/vendor/libssh2/configure: line 2059: config.log: Permission denied

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/adapt-cli/node_modules/nodegit/vendor/libssh2/configure: line 2069: config.log: Permission denied

at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:275:12)

at emitTwo (events.js:126:13)

at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:214:7)

at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:925:16)

at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:209:5)

killed: false,

code: 1,

signal: null,

cmd: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/adapt-cli/node_modules/nodegit/vendor/libssh2/configure --with-libssl-prefix=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/adapt-cli/node_modules/nodegit/vendor/openssl/openssl' }

npmERR!code ELIFECYCLE

npmERR!errno 1

npmERR! nodegit@0.20.3 install: `node lifecycleScripts/preinstall && node lifecycleScripts/install`

npmERR! Exit status 1

npmERR!

npmERR! Failed at the nodegit@0.20.3 install script.

npmERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npmERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:

npmERR! /Users/lauraepton/.npm/_logs/2018-04-16T19_41_01_659Z-debug.log

Hi Laura,

2 things;

1 your Node is on too high version, use v6, v8 is not yet supported, so use v6.

2 your lifecycle problem has to do with some node legacy stuff, search this forum, and you will find some tips how to solve it.

John

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I had the same issue. It fails when trying to install nodegit AFAIK. Searched all over and couldn't find a resolution. I tried to do npm -g install nodegit as root and got the same permission error. How I got it to work was to install adapt-cli in some temp folder that I knew there wouldn't be a permission issue. So I navigated to /users/my_name/tmp in the terminal and ran npm install adapt-cli from there and it ran fine.

After it finished I copied the many newly created folders in /users/my_name/tmp/node_modules and moved them to /usr/local/lib/node_modules. I had to provide my admin password to allow the files to be written. After that the adapt command worked globally as expected.

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Just a quick note if helps anybody about Thomas Wiley' answer.

It worked just fine but I had to grant permissions in the temp folder

chmod ugo+w .

And it is important to NOT to "sudo" the command

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