Install from source fail at yarn setup

Developer help Installation
1

Hi,

I’m trying to install ghost from source using this link: https://ghost.org/docs/install/source/

It works fine until the yarn setup which failed with this error:
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! ghost-admin@2.31.0 build: ember build
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! Failed at the ghost-admin@2.31.0 build script.
Warning: Command failed: npm run build
ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘symbols-loader.html’
Warning: Failed running “grunt shell:ember:dev” in “core/client”. Use --force to continue.

Thanks for your help.

2

Hi @phantoms08! Can I ask what you’re intending on doing? Are you wanting to contribute to Ghost or customise Ghost to your needs?

3

Hi @DavidDarnes. Thanks for your answer. I’d like to customise Ghost.

4

To what degree? I’m wondering whether it’s possible to achieve what you want without having to delve deep into the Ghost codebase :slightly_smiling_face:

5

I’d like to change some colors in the admin UI, and change Posts page in the admin UI too.

6

Ah I see, interesting. Is this a personal preference? If so then you could use a browser extension to add user styles specifically for when you’re using the Ghost admin. There’s a related thread about doing just that:

7

I could use that for the colors. As for the changes on Posts page, there are a little more tricky (I guess). I’d like to change the length of each post snippet and show each post image.

I might also make further changes in the future, so installing from source would be the best way.

Thanks.

8

In that case can I ask if you’ve got everything setup as shown in the Prerequisites section? Looking at the errors you’re getting it appears you might not have npm / node setup right Ghost Docs

9

I have node js v10.16.0 (installed via nvm-windows) and yarn on windows 10.
I’ve tried on an ubuntu 18.04 server and I get the same errror.

10

So, I went back and tried again to have a better look at the error. And it was coming from ember-svg-jar.
A good sir solved my problem with his github issue here.

Thanks for your help, @DavidDarnes.

1 Like
11

Great job! Glad you solved it