Getting Startet - ablsulute newbie

[DerHerrB]

Hi together!

Im a absolute linux beginner and try to get MM running on a raspberry pi 4

doing it manually leads me to some trouble with electron
using alternative method (mm scripts) neither worked…

quiete frustrating

is their some gnerell advice i need to know before starting again?
right now im going to reinstall raspianOS to start over…

Julian

[sdetweil]

@DerHerrB if you run the scripted install and have trouble show me the ~/install.log

The scripted install is here
https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts

[DerHerrB]

@sdetweil

install starting  - Sa Jun  6 00:34:29 CEST 2026
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)" VERSION_CODENAME=trixie DEBIAN_VERSION_FULL=13.5 ID=debian HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/" SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"
              gesamt       benutzt     frei      gemns.  Puffer/Cache verfügbar
Speicher:       3789         434        2332          48        1147        3354
Swap:           2047           0        2047
Updating packages ...
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates InRelease Hit:3 http://archive.raspberrypi.com/debian trixie InRelease Hit:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security trixie-security InRelease Ign:5 https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu trixie InRelease Err:6 https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu trixie Release 404 Not Found [IP: 108.138.7.18 443] Reading package lists...
Update failed, retrying installation ...
Installing helper tools ...
Paketlisten werden gelesen…
Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut…
Statusinformationen werden eingelesen…
curl ist schon die neueste Version (8.14.1-2+deb13u3).
wget ist schon die neueste Version (1.25.0-2).
git ist schon die neueste Version (1:2.47.3-0+deb13u1).
build-essential ist schon die neueste Version (12.12).
unzip ist schon die neueste Version (6.0-29).
0 aktualisiert, 0 neu installiert, 0 zu entfernen und 0 nicht aktualisiert.
installed node version is v24.16.0
installing on trixie
installed node version = v24.16.0
No npm engines section specified in package.json, using default=V10.9.4 ...
Check current Node installation ...
Node currently installed. Checking version number.
Minimum Node version: v22.21.1
Installed Node version: v24.16.0
No Node.js upgrade necessary.
Check current NPM installation ...
NPM currently installed. Checking version number.
Minimum npm version: V10.9.4
Installed npm version: V11.13.0
No npm upgrade necessary.
Cloning MagicMirror ...
Cloning MagicMirror Done!
Installing dependencies ...
> magicmirror@2.36.0 postinstall > git clean -df fonts vendor modules/default > magicmirror@2.36.0 prepare > [ -f node_modules/.bin/husky ] && husky || echo no husky installed. no husky installed. added 381 packages in 1m 85 packages are looking for funding run `npm fund` for details
Dependencies installation Done!

added 507 packages in 18s

243 packages are looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details
setting up initial config.js
Check plymouth installation ...
Splashscreen: Checking themes directory.
Splashscreen: Create theme directory if not exists.
Splashscreen: Changed theme to MagicMirror successfully.
don't know how to disable screen saver on labwc compositor
install and setup pm2
get the pm2 platform specific startup command
startup command = sudo env PATH=$PATH:/home/julian/.nvm/versions/node/v24.16.0/bin /home/julian/.nvm/versions/node/v24.16.0/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 startup systemd -u julian --hp /home/julian
[PM2] Init System found: systemd
Platform systemd
Template
[Unit]
Description=PM2 process manager
Documentation=https://pm2.keymetrics.io/
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
User=julian
LimitNOFILE=infinity
LimitNPROC=infinity
LimitCORE=infinity
Environment=PATH=/home/julian/.nvm/versions/node/v24.16.0/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/home/julian/.nvm/versions/node/v24.16.0/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
Environment=PM2_HOME=/home/julian/.pm2
PIDFile=/home/julian/.pm2/pm2.pid
Restart=on-failure

ExecStart=/home/julian/.nvm/versions/node/v24.16.0/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 resurrect
ExecReload=/home/julian/.nvm/versions/node/v24.16.0/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 reload all
ExecStop=/home/julian/.nvm/versions/node/v24.16.0/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 kill

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Target path
/etc/systemd/system/pm2-julian.service
Command list
[ 'systemctl enable pm2-julian' ]
[PM2] Writing init configuration in /etc/systemd/system/pm2-julian.service
[PM2] Making script booting at startup...
[PM2] [-] Executing: systemctl enable pm2-julian...
[PM2] [v] Command successfully executed.
+---------------------------------------+
[PM2] Freeze a process list on reboot via:
$ pm2 save

[PM2] Remove init script via:
$ pm2 unstartup systemd
pm2 startup command done
configure the pm2 config file for MagicMirror
rename pm2 process in pm2_MagicMirror.json
the user is not pi
change pm2_MagicMirror.json
now using this config file pm2_MagicMirror_new.json
start MagicMirror via pm2 now
save MagicMirror pm2 config now
stop MagicMirror via pm2 now
We're ready! Run pm2 start MM from the ~/MagicMirror directory to start your MagicMirror.

[sdetweil]

@DerHerrB thanks. Did you install node 24 in advance?

There is a problem w node 24

So do

pm2 stop all 
cd ~/MagicMirror 
rm -rf node_modules
rm package-lock.json
sudo npm install -g n
sudo n 22.22.1
hash -r
node -v

If that produces 22.22.1 ,
then do

npm run install-mm 

And because you selected pm2

installers/mm.sh

MagicMirror should launch now

Please advise results to here

[sdetweil]

@DerHerrB I see the first scripted run had a problem w a docker update.

Sounds like you did some other things before MagicMirror