Install of Magento fails at composer webroot and sample data steps

[freedog96150]

This seems very similar to issue #5 which is tagged as closed.

I have pulled all the latest updates from the repo. I am running as my with sudo rights and not as root/super user. Followed your setup instructions via copy and paste. This was run on a clean server instance with nothing installed except for basic updates and firewall.

Digital Ocean Ubuntu 16.04.3

Snip from install logs:

Download Magento 2.2.0 release
rm: refusing to remove '.' or '..' directory: skipping '/var/www/html/shop.masterfitinc.com/webroot/.'
rm: refusing to remove '.' or '..' directory: skipping '/var/www/html/shop.masterfitinc.com/webroot/..'
chmod: cannot access 'bin/magento': No such file or directory
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  6038  100  6038    0     0   8621      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  8625
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/shop.masterfitinc.com': File exists

CONFIGURATION: MAGENTO CONNECT KEYS
rm: cannot remove '/var/www/html/shop.masterfitinc.com/composer/auth.json': No such file or directory

INSTALLATION: MAGENTO 2 COMPOSER PROJECT
Do not run Composer as root/super user! See https://getcomposer.org/root for details
Installing magento/project-community-edition (2.2.0)
  - Installing magento/project-community-edition (2.2.0): Downloading (100%)
Created project in .
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
install/magento-injection.sh: line 14: 12428 Killed                  composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.magento.com/ magento/project-community-edition . $2

INSTALLATION: THE MAGENTO 2
Could not open input file: bin/magento
Could not open input file: bin/magento
Could not open input file: bin/magento
Could not open input file: bin/magento
Could not open input file: bin/magento
chmod: cannot access 'bin/magento': No such file or directory

INSTALLATION: MAGENTO 2 SAMPLE DATA DEMO STORE
Could not open input file: bin/magento
Do not run Composer as root/super user! See https://getcomposer.org/root for details
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
install/magento-sample.sh: line 27: 15401 Killed                  composer update
Could not open input file: bin/magento
Could not open input file: bin/magento
Could not open input file: bin/magento
Could not open input file: bin/magento
chmod: cannot access 'bin/magento': No such file or directory

Any ideas on resolving?

[progcode]

I got the same issue on Ubuntu16.04