BACKGROUND
I received a Chromebook Pixel from Google I/O and although the screen is absolutely beautiful, Chrome OS itself is somewhat limited. I've set up Crouton from the excellent instructions located here: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton. I could have run Ubuntu in chroot but it doesn't quite look or feel the same. I also wanted to keep my system light so I've opted only for crouton's command line tools instead of starting the window manager. Without a window manager, it's difficult to get an IDE working and after some research, I settled on Cloud9 IDE. Below is my experience setting it up.
REQUIREMENTS
First, run the following to install the necessary Ubuntu packages:
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential g++ curl libssl-dev apache2-utils git libxml2-dev
Next, it's very important to install the correct node version. I installed from the Ubuntu package manager which doesn't work well. I also tried the latest version which also doesn't work well and also a different version from other tutorials. I received different errors during the "npm install" step. The best way to do this is:
curl https://raw.github.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh | sh
Logout and then log back in and execute the following:
nvm install 0.8.8
nvm alias default 0.8.8
At this point, you should have satisfied Cloud9's requirements.
INSTALLATION
Installation is now pretty straight-forward. You can follow the directions on their Github (https://github.com/ajaxorg/cloud9/) page or run the following:
git clone https://github.com/ajaxorg/cloud9.git
cd cloud9
npm install
The above install steps create a cloud9
directory with
a bin/cloud9.sh
script that can be used to start Cloud9:
bin/cloud9.sh
Optionally, you may specify the directory you'd like to edit:
bin/cloud9.sh -w ~/git/myproject
Cloud9 will be started as a web server on port -p 3131
, you can access
it by pointing your browser
to:http://localhost:3131
Enjoy your new web IDE!
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