Getting Tilestream Working on Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf)

This configuration is suitable for a simple tilestream appliance that only serves tiles. It can be quickly configured and uses node.js from chris-lea repositories.

The basic concept:

• install latest Ubuntu 15.10 iso (default settings, I included openssh only), reboot
• install nodejs sym linking it as the node binary
• install npm and git
• clone the mapbox git repo
• edit the package.json file to allow the latest version of connect
• npm install
• run

The basic concept is to link apt-get to the chris-lea repo to install node, download the git repo of the tilestream app from mapbox and adjust the package.json dependency to get a more modern version of connect. Then it should fire up ok.

This list should get you up and running...

$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get -y install nodejs git-core

$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node # node binary is the nodejs binary! 

$ sudo apt-get -y install npm # installs lots of dependencies

$ git clone https://github.com/mapbox/tilestream.git && cd tilestream

$ vim package.json # edit the connect version to latest (replace the connect version with a *)

$ npm install

$ ./index.js --host 10.0.0.34

Bam!!

Check out my similar install instructions for Ubuntu 14.04

Check out the config instructions on mapboxes github site