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I’m stuck in a situation where I’m not able to build my meteor app (Version 1.4.3.1) anymore.

When calling 

meteor build ~/builddir --server subdomain.domain.com

I suddenly get the error message

'build' is not a meteor command. See 'meteor --help'

I know that any action before the first occurrence of the error is probably the cause.

The last thing I remember was the call of a chain of commands like

meteor reset && meteor build ~/_builddir --server subdomain.domain.com && cd ~/_builddir/android && cp release-unsigned.apk release-tosign.apk && jarsigner -verbose -sigalg SHA1withRSA -digestalg SHA1 -keystore .keystorefile release-tosign.apk keystore_alias && mv release-tosign.apk release-signed.apk && ~/Library/Android/sdk/build-tools/25.0.3/zipalign 4 release-signed.apk finalBuild_signed.apk && cd ~/meteordir

in Mac Terminal / VS Code terminal. (I don't remember exactly where I started the command chain...

Unfortunately I couldn’t find any similar question here that brings me to a idea or a solution.

After the first occurrence I tried to 

meteor reset

(this is still a known command for meteor), but I got the same error message

I deleted the node_modules and re-installed all packages

meteor npm i

but I got the same error message

I tried to update to the meteor version 1.4.3.1 (used in this project)

meteor update --release 1.4.3.1

this was not working because cli told me it’s already installed, so I tried to up- and downgrade via

meteor update --release 1.4.3.2

and

meteor update --release 1.4.3.1

but I got the same error message

so I started a new installation

curl "https://install.meteor.com/?release=1.4.3.1" | sh

but I got the same error message

I alway made the call inside of a meteor project folder, as I always had been doing before.

My gut feeling told me, this is a quite simple thing. Something I’ve forgotten … but I’m just a newbie hoping anybody can help.

Best regards

marc_s
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ricow
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  • before reinstalling the Meteor CLI, did you remove it? `sudo rm /usr/local/bin/meteor rm -rf ~/.meteor` https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24686971/how-can-i-completely-uninstall-and-then-reinstall-meteor-js – Harry Adel Oct 12 '19 at 10:19
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    @HarryAdel I did this, but it didn't help, too. But maybe it was a problem in the project folder itself. I cloned the project repo again in another folder and the meteor build command was working there. I turned back in original project folder and it was working again. strange but fact. It took me 3 days to figure it out and now I fixed it with not knowing the reason. Thanks for your help. – ricow Oct 13 '19 at 16:55
  • Glad everything is going smoothly. Good luck with your Meteor Journey! :) – Harry Adel Oct 14 '19 at 13:03

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Welcome to Stack Overflow. This isn't an answer, but I needed the formatting options that an answer provides...

I dont remember exactly where I started the command chain …

No offence intended, but if you can't provide proper evidence of the problem, how do you expect us to help you? If you read https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask it will explain what a good question looks like.

meteor build should work on all versions of meteor. You can type meteor build and it should complain that it wants a target folder (that should exist)

Usage: meteor build <output path> [--debug] [--directory] [--server-only]
          [--mobile-settings settings.json] [--server http://example.com:3000]
Mikkel
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  • Line break is shift+enter here ... I know that proper description would help better to understand the problem. Unfortunately I can't turn back time and reproduce the action. With knowledge of coming failure in advance it would have been easier. ;-) I know that the meteor build command SHOULD work, but my issue is, that it didn't. That's the issue! ;-) I didn't have the problem of any missing parameter or target folder. It was simply that the command `meteor build` didn't work at all. By the way, the target folder should not already exist. If it not already exists meteor will create it. – ricow Oct 13 '19 at 16:47