Trouble installing MM on Raspberry Pi Desktop for PC

[raymondjspigot]

Hi, I’ve run into trouble trying to install MagicMirror on an old intel NUC, on top of an installation of Debian with Raspberry Pi Desktop for PC/Mac from

https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/raspberry-pi-desktop/

It looks like Raspberry Pi Desktop is based on Debian Bullseye:

Debian Bullseye with Raspberry Pi Desktop
Release date: July 1st 2022
System: 32-bit
Kernel version: 5.10
Debian version: 11 (bullseye)

Installation of Raspberry Pi Desktop from the image on USB seemed successful and the machine boots to a desktop OK.

I’ve then tried running the MagicMirror install script from https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts

but this gets to the section installing correct version of node and npm, please wait and fails with error messages at the terminal

ERROR: npm v10.1.0 is known not to run on Node.js v12.22.12.  This version of npm supports the following node versions: `^18.17.0 || >=20.5.0`. You can find the latest version at https://nodejs.org/.

ERROR:
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/exit-handler.js:19
  const hasLoadedNpm = npm?.config.loaded

followed a bit later by

node failed to install, exiting

The RPi desktop installation instructions included allowing updates as part of the install process, so just in case that was causing issues I’ve tried:

• MM install via script on a fresh RPi Desktop install (allowed updates during install)
• MM install via script on a fresh RPi Desktop install (skipped updates during install this time)

but I’m seeing the same npm error during the MagicMirror installation on both.

Thanks for reading this far and any suggestions! - let me know if there’s anything else I should try : )

[MMRIZE]

@raymondjspigot
Your node version seems somewhat low.
Check this;

node -v

[sdetweil]

@raymondjspigot the desktop version is old and a mess. I strongly suggest using Ubuntu. mm runs there fine.

and use my install script

[raymondjspigot]

@MMRIZE thanks for the suggestion - I’m not sure it even got as far as having a version of node that was too old.

node -v

just gives me a No such file or directory error

@sdetweil thanks for taking a look! I’ll try ubuntu + install script and see how I get on.

[sdetweil]

@raymondjspigot yeh, that’s the problem , that image is running 64 bit kernel (uname -a) and 32 bit runtime.

but it keeps installing the 64 bit version of node, which won’t run in the 32 bit user space.