I will admit that it's my preferred way to install things like this. I can look ...

I will admit that it's my preferred way to install things like this. I can look at it and see what will happen easily.

I will also admit to disagreeing with the poster suggesting that it should all go to ~/.meteor. I kind of hate that type of install... at least when I don't have an option. I don't want to install it multiple times for different users, and I don't like "system" software in my home directory, I like to keep my user data there and back it up more regularly that /usr/local which is all things I can reinstall in case of disaster.

I guess the ideal would be to ask the user.

Comment...

  # add to $PATH
  mkdir -p "$PARENT/bin"
  rm -f "$PARENT/bin/meteor"
  ln -s "$TARGET/bin/meteor" "$PARENT/bin/meteor"

This probably needs to check it $PARENT/bin is actually in the path, and maybe tell the user that they'll need to add it.