Hello! Is there another way to instantiate the

.meltano

directory besides running

meltano init

? I would like to clone a git tracked Meltano project and just run

mletano install

to install everything I need, but since the

.meltano

directory isn't tracked by git, I get an error about not being able to connect to the DB. when I run

meltano install

Thanks!

Hi @tim_brunk!

meltano install

should (re)create the

.meltano/

directory and the default

.meltano/meltano.db

database if it doesn't exist. So, a couple of questions: 1. Are you using the default (SQLite) db? 2. If not, are you running a CI pipeline to build a Meltano docker image in an environment without access to the database?

I'm using the default SQLite (as far as I know, I didn't configure anything differently). The repository where I'm cloning from; however, does have a CI pipeline setup to build and publish Docker images.

Thanks! Can you share the exact error you're getting? I got the feeling it may be an OS permissions issue (i.e. can't create the directory or can't write the sqlite file)

Thanks for your help! Here is a screen shot. This is after I cloned a Meltano repository and tried to run

meltano install

first. My workaround currently is to

meltano init

first, then add the

git remote

second and pull down the code.