Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
installing MagicMirror on my Raspberry Pi 0 w2
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The log was deleted during the SD card formatting process. When I tried again with a clean Raspberry Pi, it wouldn’t reboot and displayed the error “Could not install dependencies!” I’ll send you the log.
git is already the newest version (1:2.47.3-0+deb13u1).
build-essential is already the newest version (12.12).
unzip is already the newest version (6.0-29).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
this should be a raspberry pi 02w
swap control file /etc/dphys-swapfile doesn’t exist
installed node version is v22.18.0
installing on trixie
installed node version = v22.18.0
^[[0mNo npm engines section specified in package.json, using default=V10.9.3 …^[[0m
^[[96mCheck current Node installation …^[[0m
^[[0mNode currently installed. Checking version number.
^[[0mMinimum Node version: ^[[1mv22.18.0^[[0m
^[[0mInstalled Node version: ^[[1mv22.18.0^[[0m
^[[92mNo Node.js upgrade necessary.^[[0m
^[[96mCheck current NPM installation …^[[0m
^[[0mNPM currently installed. Checking version number.
^[[0mMinimum npm version: ^[[1mV10.9.3^[[0m
^[[0mInstalled npm version: ^[[1mV10.9.3^[[0m
^[[92mNo npm upgrade necessary.^[[0m
^[[96mCloning MagicMirror …^[[0m
^[[92mCloning MagicMirror Done!^[[0m
^[[96mInstalling dependencies …^[[0m^[[91mUnable to install dependencies! ^[[0m
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yes
$cat /proc/device-tree/model
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W Rev 1.0
$uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 6.12.47+rpt-rpi-v8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.12.47-1+rpt1 (2025-09-16) aarch64 GNU/Linux
$cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux 13 \n \l
$cat /etc/release
PRETTY_NAME=“Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)”
NAME=“Debian GNU/Linux”
VERSION_ID=“13”
VERSION=“13 (trixie)”
VERSION_CODENAME=trixie
DEBIAN_VERSION_FULL=13.2
ID=debian
HOME_URL=“https://www.debian.org/”
SUPPORT_URL=“https://www.debian.org/support”
BUG_REPORT_URL=“https://bugs.debian.org/”
$getconf LONG_BIT
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@Y_Garden interesting. I thought I pushed a fix for this a couple weeks ago
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When I deleted the duplicated MagicMirror and ran the script again, the Raspberry Pi rebooted.
install starting - Thu Nov 20 05:12:44 GMT 2025
installing on aarch64 processor system
the os is PRETTY_NAME=“Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)” NAME=“Debian GNU/Linux” VERSION_ID=“13” VERSION=“13 (trixie)” VERS>
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 416 204 101 3 166 211
Swap: 16799 129 16670
^[[96mUpdating packages …^[[0m
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates InRelease Hit:3 h>
apt-get update completed ok
Reading package lists…
Building dependency tree…
Reading state information…
pv is already the newest version (1.9.31-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
apt-get upgrade started
Reading package lists…
Building dependency tree…
Reading state information…
Calculating upgrade…
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
apt-get upgrade result =rc=0 Reading package lists…
Building dependency tree…
Reading state information…
Calculating upgrade…
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
^[[96mInstalling helper tools …^[[0m
Reading package lists…
Building dependency tree…
Reading state information…
curl is already the newest version (8.14.1-2+deb13u2).
wget is already the newest version (1.25.0-2).
git is already the newest version (1:2.47.3-0+deb13u1).
build-essential is already the newest version (12.12).
unzip is already the newest version (6.0-29).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
this should be a raspberry pi 02w
installed node version is v22.18.0
installing on trixie
installed node version = v22.18.0
^[[0mNo npm engines section specified in package.json, using default=V10.9.3 …^[[0m
^[[96mCheck current Node installation …^[[0m
^[[0mNode currently installed. Checking version number.
^[[0mMinimum Node version: ^[[1mv22.18.0^[[0m
^[[0mInstalled Node version: ^[[1mv22.18.0^[[0m
^[[92mNo Node.js upgrade necessary.^[[0m
^[[96mCheck current NPM installation …^[[0m
^[[0mNPM currently installed. Checking version number.
^[[0mMinimum npm version: ^[[1mV10.9.3^[[0m
^[[0mInstalled npm version: ^[[1mV10.9.3^[[0m
^[[92mNo npm upgrade necessary.^[[0m
^[[96mCloning MagicMirror …^[[0m
^[[92mCloning MagicMirror Done!^[[0m
^[[96mInstalling dependencies …^[[0mAh… if you solved it a few weeks ago, I’ll take a look at what other people have posted about the same problem.
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@Y_Garden I solved the installing correct version of node problem.
The reboot is happening inside npm, none of our code
Maybe a heat or power problem?
2w is short on ram, and trixie is bigger -
My experience trying to run MM on a system with 512MB of RAM is really poor. I found it pretty frustrating really.
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@emlowe yes, and the later os images are getting bigger and bigger
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@sdetweil I did find dietPi (https://dietpi.com/) to be the best distro for ease of installation, generally small, and still up to date - they keep up to date with Debian
