I’m On OSX or Windows and It’s All Wonky!
Never fear, the marmots are here. See Section 1 of our docker-machine tutorial and come back to your installation. All will be well.
No eris Command Found
If you get a “eris: command not found” error then (if you built it from source) you need to make sure that your $GOBIN variable value is in your $PATH (see Getting Started and then do:
cd $GOPATH/src/github/eris-ltd/eris-cli/cmd/eris
go install
cd ~1
eris init
If you received that error but you performed the binary installation, then you will need to make sure that the zip or tarball which was extracted from the Github Releases page was installed into a place in your $PATH which the shell can use. Please see the documentation for your operating system, or ask the Google for help.
No Output At All
If you type eris init or eris init --debug and you get no output, this is almost always because your current user is not added to the docker group. To fix:
sudo usermod -a -G docker $USER
From the user who will be using Eris.
You will need to close the terminal window and open a new terminal for the changes to take effect. If you are ssh-ing into a cloud based development machine, then log out and log back in so that the changes will take effect.
Double check that your changes have taken hold (after you log back in or in a new terminal window) by:
groups $USER
From the user who will be using Eris.
Confirm that the line output includes docker and you will be good to go!
Can’t See What’s Happening?
By default, eris is a fairly quiet tool. If you would like to have more output you can add -v (for verbose) or -d (for debug) to any command in order to see more output. In general, there is no need to use both of these flags. The --verbose flag will give a bit more output than the command will by default and the --debug flag will give much more output than the either the --verbose flag or the command by default, but will be directed primarily at Eris developers.
If you are reporting a bug, please rerun the command which caused the issue with the debug flag (-d or --debug) and send us the output to a Github Issue or via Community Driven Support Forums.
I’m Behind a Firewall
Docker itself needs to be given a proxy. You can do this by updating your /etc/default/docker with the following line.
Some organizations do not allow connections to quay.io (which is an equivalent to Docker Hub but with many more security features). At Eris we keep most of our Docker images on quay.io. At this time we are working on an automatic bridge script which will mirror our quay.io images to Docker Hub but that is still a work in progress. As such you will likely need to ensure your computer can access quay.io.