install MM2.18 on win10 pc

[Johans]

@sdetweil I don’t seem to find such a file in the root directory.

[sdetweil]

@Johans said in install MM2.18 on win10 pc:

file in the root directory.

not in the root /

in the users home
~/

you CANNOT do MM as root…

you MUST logon as a normal user (in my case sam on my ubuntu system)

[Johans]

@sdetweil I have the icon under windows and when I start, Ubuntu it starts with the user I created during installation.

So I guess this is my normal user?

I installed node & MM from jstal@DESKTOP-HF7R0J9 As I think this is correct - or not?

[sdetweil]

@Johans wait. you are running Ubuntu in lsw?

that’s text mode. electron won’t run there

[Johans]

@sdetweil , yes lsw2 that is how I installed it. So that is not good? How do I then make a proper installation on a windows PC? Do you have a link-guide to follow?

[sdetweil]

@Johans open a cmd.exe window

and then do the install steps

but you said u did that already…

but wanted linux

for linux desktop on windows you have to use a virtual machine…

now, you might be able to run server mode and use the windows browser to access
in the lsw linux command prompt
cd ~/MagicMirror
npm run server

then go to windows desktop and open browser
http://localhost:8080

[Johans]

@sdetweil - using virtual machine - don’t have any expierience on that or how to activate.

Let me do following: I clean up and remove the Ubuntu & Debian app I installed.
Then I’m going to look up some youtube vids on how to install Ubuntu with virtual box or virtual machine active.

I’ll come back later when that is done properly -

thanks for your support so far.