Please don’t take your frustrations out on me. I am no longer staff. Just a community person and the messenger.
I answered your original comment which was:
That is not the same as “How do I set up a development environment”
So you created yourself a bit of an XY problem.
The XY Info problem
The answer to that is to read docs which would lead you via the Developer Docs link to this:
However, I don’t dispute that a lot of the docs are out of date and a mess. That isn’t my fault. Open a documentation bug.
Because you do, and probably worth while trying to understand that before you go much further… IIRC it compiles and runs on the fly, and allows you to modify on the fly, rather than a pre compiled binary which can’t.
Devuan - yup I have one and follow them ever since they forked. But it probably won’t be easy to run on it. Not my choice, but the way it is.
You are conflating scenarios.
See what I said at the start - you didn’t ASK about a dev environment. If you had I would have answered that accordingly.
Who said I was unaware? I answered your question. Not what you thought you asked.
I just said it was easier to use docker for a standard install than the precompiled binary which still had a lot of dependencies, and can be flaky as hell with node. YMMV. Not the same as a development install which is multiple times trickier in different ways.
I’ll say again - I answered the question you asked, not the one you thought you asked.
Yup that’s probably the reason. Particularly above when you don’t understand why you might need meteor and yarn.
FWIW many years ago I wrote this section for your sort of scenario (and it probably needs some updating):
Still Stuck?
The links to “How to Report Bugs Effectively” and “How to ask a smart question that will attract attention” are well worth a read.
I may not have all the answer to all your questions immediately, but you have no idea who I may know. So keeping a slightly more civil tone to your posts may get you more sympathy and help.
