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I'm genuinely very disappointed with Cloud9 IDE, and that so only because i can never get it to install. I've tried it in both Linux and Windows environments and for one reason or the other either the installation script fails or the server.js file does, and resolving the file path issues and dependency issues is a real nightmare.

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Did you ask for help in our support page or on Github issues? We try to be very responsive. What problem are you having exactly?

Thanks for replying. Yes, i did visit the issues page on Github and it seemed others were experiencing a similar issue, and there was talk about changing the paths in some of the .js files, but i lost track of which file paths needed changing to what.

I've just doing a fresh install of the back of a git clone in a clean dir and get "Error. require.paths is removed" upon doing 'Node bin/cloud9.js'

This seems to be a Node 0.6 issue. We're almost done adapting Cloud9IDE to run on Node 0.6. For the time being please use the node version that is packaged with Cloud9IDE. (Run the shell script bin/cloud9.sh)

I also had a problem getting it to run according to the install/config/run instructions.

I am thinking about having Cloud9 set up for you automatically on my new CoffeeScript/SSJS servers (thanks to Trevor Burnham for the idea of having an editor).. if that is something that anyone might be interested in.

Really? Last time I tried it, it was a git clone and executing one, maybe two commands. I've seen very early unix beginners get it running quickly...

    sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.8
    git clone https://github.com/ajaxorg/cloud9.git cloud9
    ./cloud9/bin/cloud9.sh

(roughly) Yep, just tried in a clear dir, it's up and running with that alone.

Ok. Let's try that:

  support/node-builds-v4/node-linux64: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Wait, what? Ahh, I have a newer version installed and it really wants the old 0.9.8. Let's fake the links and see what happens:

  ./cloud9/bin/cloud9.sh: line 11: 23557 Segmentation fault      support/node-builds-v4/node-linux64 bin/cloud9.js "$@" -a x-www-browser

Not good. Maybe I can try the node already installed on my system instead of the bundled binaries? Sure, let's try that:

  Error: require.paths is removed. Use node_modules folders, or the NODE_PATH environment variable instead.

Right. Because it's not compatible with the latest stable version of NodeJS, which is 0.6 ... that's what the guy was talking about. Unless you want to setup a box with the exact dependencies that it needs and use it only for that, it'll be a real pain.

Yep - That last error is the real problem i've had each time.

Okay, I didn't know my node was a version behind, but are you really telling me checking out node.js into another directory and building it is a "real pain"?

Maybe beta quality open source software isn't something I'd recommend to you then.

> Maybe beta quality open source software isn't something I'd recommend to you then.

Beta grade software isn't something I would recommend to anyone for the purposes of writing production code. That doesn't mean it's not for everyone, but it's certainly not for me.

What?

Now you're just playing word games to make me sound unreasonable. Unless you're implying that Cloud9 is going to hack my GitHub account and somehow wipe out my repository, I see no problem whatsoever using a beta text editor to write code.

It's not like the "beta" aspect of the editor is going to slip in some weird bug into the code I'm writing while I'm not looking.

"Error. require.paths is removed" is what i get even when i follow your instructions exact. I had the same problem on Linux but im on Windows now. I dont think this is a Windows problem though? Something with the way i have things configured maybe?

PS. I used Win-Git for the git clone

I've never used Cloud9 before, but that just worked for me on a Xubuntu VM. As a Vim fanboy, I'll be giving it a shot.

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