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I followed the instructions in David Weldon's post on getting a local copy of publish-with-relations since this question informed me the Atmosphere version has a fatal bug.

I put the cloned repo in a directory in my project, $apphome/localpackages, and the invocation of mrt add publish-with-relations went just fine, no errors.

But then, when I start the whole thing up, it gives me this error: 

=> Meteor server running on: http://localhost:3000/
W20140219-10:30:46.040(-7)? (STDERR) /home/blaine/.meteor/tools/09b63f1ed5/lib/node_modules/fibers/future.js:173
W20140219-10:30:46.168(-7)? (STDERR)                        throw(ex);
W20140219-10:30:46.169(-7)? (STDERR)                              ^
W20140219-10:30:46.170(-7)? (STDERR) TypeError: Object #<Object> has no method 'describe'
W20140219-10:30:46.174(-7)? (STDERR)     at app/localpackages/publish-with-relations/package.js:1:44
W20140219-10:30:46.174(-7)? (STDERR)     at app/localpackages/publish-with-relations/package.js:16:3
W20140219-10:30:46.175(-7)? (STDERR)     at /home/blaine/Business/PianoStudio/websitemeteor/.meteor/local/build/programs/server/boot.js:155:10
W20140219-10:30:46.175(-7)? (STDERR)     at Array.forEach (native)
W20140219-10:30:46.175(-7)? (STDERR)     at Function._.each._.forEach (/home/blaine/.meteor/tools/09b63f1ed5/lib/node_modules/underscore/underscore.js:79:11)
W20140219-10:30:46.176(-7)? (STDERR)     at /home/blaine/Business/PianoStudio/websitemeteor/.meteor/local/build/programs/server/boot.js:82:5

It would keep spitting that out over and over again unless you stop the server.

What's going on? Did I do something wrong? Is there something wrong in the github repo?

Possibly Relevant I tried this process twice, once using meteor add and once using mrt add. In between the two, and removed the package with meteor remove and cleaned the localpackages directory out and re-cloned the repo. Both resulted in the same error.

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It looks a bit like you've tried to install it yourself.

Packages need to be installed in /packages. The error comes about because meteor interprets your package as part of the Meteor app and not a package, being in /localpackages. Meteorite (mrt) does all this for you so you shouldn't do anything besides the below:

You can install it in the root directory by simply running mrt add publish-with-relations.

To get the package up to date you can then peek into the /packages/publish-with-relations and update the code there (its a symlink)

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  • So what you're suggesting: I call `mrt add`, then I go into `.meteorite/packages/publish-with-relations`, clean out the contents, and repo a fresh directory? Would it be more straightforward to put the repo somewhere outside of my app directory, then follow the rest of the instructions in David Weldon's blog? https://dweldon.silvrback.com/local-packages – blaineh Feb 19 '14 at 18:35
  • I followed his instructions, but I just put the repo outside of my app directory. You were right that it was misinterpreting it as part of my app! Silly mistake really. – blaineh Feb 19 '14 at 18:49