# Having trouble getting started
**URL:** https://forums.rocket.chat/t/having-trouble-getting-started/4014
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [June 24, 2019, 6:30am UTC](https://forums.rocket.chat/t/having-trouble-getting-started/4014 "2019-06-24T06:30:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@cYzzie](https://forums.rocket.chat/u/cYzzie)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2019, 6:30am UTC](https://forums.rocket.chat/t/having-trouble-getting-started/4014/1 "2019-06-24T06:30:22Z")
i tried getting started using a vagrant container, i used the one from the documentation just
A) modified it to ubuntu 18.04
b) had the vagrant file not download the rocketchat release
instead after that i continued with the developer getting started by clowining rocketchat and doing
meteor npm install
which fails cause it says .meteor already exists but there is no .meteor/meteor executable
if i instead delete the whole .meteor folder it installs but then meteor npm start fails with
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! Rocket.Chat@1.2.0-develop start: `meteor`
(not sure which part of the log that is created to paste, here are 3 lines that might indicate where the error starts
14 verbose stack Error: Rocket.Chat@1.2.0-develop start: `meteor`
14 verbose stack Exit status 1
14 verbose stack at EventEmitter. (/var/www/Rocket.Chat/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.8.1.ani1yi.p0f9s++os.linux.x86\_64+web.browser+web.browser.legacy+web.cordova/mt-os.linux.x86\_64/dev\_bundle/lib/node\_modules/npm/node\_modules/npm-lifecycle/index.js:301:16)
14 verbose stack at emitTwo (events.js:126:13)
)
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### Author:  [@ernie.albers](https://forums.rocket.chat/u/ernie.albers)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2019, 6:11pm UTC](https://forums.rocket.chat/t/having-trouble-getting-started/4014/2 "2019-09-20T18:11:39Z")
Did you get this resolved? I am having the same issue.
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