Cannot install Ghost locally

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Hey, folks.

I have spent the better part of a few hours trying to figure out why I keep getting an error when trying to install Ghost locally for doing some theme development, however, I have not yet been able to find a solution. Tried uninstalling ghost-cli and reinstalling it with no joy. :slightly_frowning_face:

I have done ghost install local --verbose so you get the complete output. There seems to be no issue with permissions. If I run ghost run there is no error or PID. If I run ghost run -D the server starts fine and there is no error.

Have also tried doing the actions as per one of the GitHub bugs with the same error by removing ‘node_modules’ then clearing the yarn cache and running yarn install again. Everything is okay but I still get the error on install.

Any clues?

The debug output has not thrown up anything I can make sense of as to the cause of the problem and it seems this error has come up a few times for others.

ghost install local --verbose
[13:19:23] Checking for Ghost-CLI updates [started]
[13:19:23] Checking for Ghost-CLI updates [completed]
[13:19:23] Ensuring correct ~/.config folder ownership [started]
[13:19:23] Ensuring correct ~/.config folder ownership [completed]
[13:19:23] Checking system Node.js version [started]
[13:19:23] Checking system Node.js version [completed]
[13:19:23] Checking current folder permissions [started]
[13:19:23] Checking current folder permissions [completed]
[13:19:23] Checking memory availability [started]
[13:19:23] Checking memory availability [completed]
[13:19:23] Checking for latest Ghost version [started]
[13:19:24] Checking for latest Ghost version [completed]
[13:19:24] Setting up install directory [started]
[13:19:24] Setting up install directory [completed]
[13:19:24] Downloading and installing Ghost [started]
[13:19:24] Downloading and installing Ghost v2.36.0 [title changed]
[13:19:24] Getting download information [started]
[13:19:24] Getting download information [completed]
[13:19:24] Downloading [started]
[13:19:25] Downloading [completed]
[13:19:25] Installing dependencies [started]
[13:19:26] → yarn install v1.16.0
[13:19:26] → [1/5] Validating package.json...
[13:19:26] → [2/5] Resolving packages...
[13:19:26] → [3/5] Fetching packages...
[13:19:26] → [4/5] Linking dependencies...
[13:19:29] → [5/5] Building fresh packages...
[13:19:32] → Done in 5.96s.
[13:19:32] Installing dependencies [completed]
[13:19:32] Downloading and installing Ghost v2.36.0 [completed]
[13:19:32] Finishing install process [started]
[13:19:32] Linking latest Ghost and recording versions [started]
[13:19:32] Linking latest Ghost and recording versions [completed]
[13:19:32] Linking latest Casper [started]
[13:19:32] Linking latest Casper [completed]
[13:19:32] Finishing install process [completed]
[13:19:32] Configuring Ghost [started]
[13:19:32] Configuring Ghost [completed]
[13:19:32] Setting up instance [started]
[13:19:32] Setting up instance [completed]
[13:19:32] Ensuring user is not logged in as ghost user [started]
[13:19:32] Ensuring user is not logged in as ghost user [skipped]
[13:19:32] Checking if logged in user is directory owner [started]
[13:19:32] Checking if logged in user is directory owner [skipped]
[13:19:32] Checking current folder permissions [started]
[13:19:32] Checking current folder permissions [completed]
[13:19:32] Validating config [started]
[13:19:32] Validating config [completed]
[13:19:32] Checking memory availability [started]
[13:19:32] Checking memory availability [completed]
✖ Starting Ghost
A GhostError occurred.

Message: Ghost process exited with code: null
Stack: Error: Ghost process exited with code: null
    at ChildProcess.cp.on (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ghost-cli/lib/utils/local-process.js:56:24)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:198:13)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:248:12)


Debug Information:
    OS: Ubuntu, v18.04
    Node Version: v10.16.1
    Ghost-CLI Version: 1.11.0
    Environment: development
    Command: 'ghost install local --verbose'
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Make sure you are not running the installer as the root user or the ghost user. Do you have any errors related to ghost in the /var/log/syslog ? Anything interesting if you use command journalctl -u ghost ?

Not a pro just trying to help.

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Thanks for your help, @evilbob. I actually got this working properly yesterday. I think I might have had conflicting node versions install. Cannot be sure, however, I upgraded Node and everything is working fine.

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Glad you got it working!