Total n00b and can't get this thing to work. Please help!

broberg

@EttVenter I would suggest a total reformatting of the SD card, get the Jessie lite image and put that on your sd card.

Then follow these instructions : https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/Jessie-Lite-Installation-Guide

EttVenter

@broberg

I’ll give that a shot!

EttVenter

@broberg

Ok, so that all went well until I got to:

Get and install MagicMirror with the Automatic Installer:

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/master/installers/raspberry.sh | bash cd ~/MagicMirror

At which point, I get “No such file or directory”.

That feels like a small error that I should be able to figure out, but I just can’t seem to get past that point :/

broberg

@EttVenter and if you run curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/master/installers/raspberry.sh
Without the bash cd command?

EttVenter

@broberg Then i get this:

# This is an installer script for MagicMirror2. It works well enough
# that it can detect if you have Node installed, run a binary script
# and then download and run MagicMirror2.

echo -e "\e[0m"
echo '$$\      $$\                     $$\           $$\      $$\ $$\                                          $$$$$$\'
echo '$$$\    $$$ |                    \__|          $$$\    $$$ |\__|                                        $$  __$$\'
echo '$$$$\  $$$$ | $$$$$$\   $$$$$$\  $$\  $$$$$$$\ $$$$\  $$$$ |$$\  $$$$$$\   $$$$$$\   $$$$$$\   $$$$$$\  \__/  $$ |'
echo '$$\$$\$$ $$ | \____$$\ $$  __$$\ $$ |$$  _____|$$\$$\$$ $$ |$$ |$$  __$$\ $$  __$$\ $$  __$$\ $$  __$$\  $$$$$$  |'
echo '$$ \$$$  $$ | $$$$$$$ |$$ /  $$ |$$ |$$ /      $$ \$$$  $$ |$$ |$$ |  \__|$$ |  \__|$$ /  $$ |$$ |  \__|$$  ____/'
echo '$$ |\$  /$$ |$$  __$$ |$$ |  $$ |$$ |$$ |      $$ |\$  /$$ |$$ |$$ |      $$ |      $$ |  $$ |$$ |      $$ |'
echo '$$ | \_/ $$ |\$$$$$$$ |\$$$$$$$ |$$ |\$$$$$$$\ $$ | \_/ $$ |$$ |$$ |      $$ |      \$$$$$$  |$$ |      $$$$$$$$\'
echo '\__|     \__| \_______| \____$$ |\__| \_______|\__|     \__|\__|\__|      \__|       \______/ \__|      \________|'
echo '                       $$\   $$ |'
echo '                       \$$$$$$  |'
echo '                        \______/'
echo -e "\e[0m"

# Define the tested version of Node.js.
NODE_TESTED="v5.1.0"

#Determine which Pi is running.
ARM=$(uname -m) 

#Check the Raspberry Pi version.
if [ "$ARM" != "armv7l" ]; then
	echo -e "\e[91mSorry, your Raspberry Pi is not supported."
	echo -e "\e[91mPlease run MagicMirror on a Raspberry Pi 2 or 3."
	echo -e "\e[91mIf this is a Pi Zero, you are in the same boat as the original Raspberry Pi. You must run in server only mode."
	exit;
fi

#define helper methods.
function version_gt() { test "$(echo "$@" | tr " " "\n" | sort -V | head -n 1)" != "$1"; }
function command_exists () { type "$1" &> /dev/null ;}

# Installing helper tools
echo -e "\e[96mInstalling helper tools ...\e[90m"
sudo apt-get install curl wget git build-essential unzip || exit

# Check if we need to install or upgrade Node.js.
echo -e "\e[96mCheck current Node installation ...\e[0m"
NODE_INSTALL=false
if command_exists node; then
	echo -e "\e[0mNode currently installed. Checking version number.";
	NODE_CURRENT=$(node -v)
	echo -e "\e[0mMinimum Node version: \e[1m$NODE_TESTED\e[0m"
	echo -e "\e[0mInstalled Node version: \e[1m$NODE_CURRENT\e[0m"
	if version_gt $NODE_TESTED $NODE_CURRENT; then
		echo -e "\e[96mNode should be upgraded.\e[0m"
		NODE_INSTALL=true

		#Check if a node process is currenlty running.
		#If so abort installation.
		if pgrep "node" > /dev/null; then
			echo -e "\e[91mA Node process is currently running. Can't upgrade."
			echo "Please quit all Node processes and restart the installer."
			exit;
		fi

	else
		echo -e "\e[92mNo Node.js upgrade nessecery.\e[0m"
	fi

else
	echo -e "\e[93mNode.js is not installed.\e[0m";
	NODE_INSTALL=true
fi

# Install or upgrade node if necessary.
if $NODE_INSTALL; then
	
	echo -e "\e[96mInstalling Node.js ...\e[90m"

	#Fetch the latest version of Node.js from the selected branch
	#The NODE_STABLE_BRANCH variable will need to be manually adjusted when a new branch is released. (e.g. 7.x)
	#Only tested (stable) versions are recommended as newer versions could break MagicMirror.
	
	NODE_STABLE_BRANCH="6.x"
	curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_$NODE_STABLE_BRANCH | sudo -E bash -
	sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
	echo -e "\e[92mNode.js installation Done!\e[0m"
fi

#Install magic mirror
cd ~
if [ -d "$HOME/MagicMirror" ] ; then
	echo -e "\e[93mIt seems like MagicMirror is already installed."
	echo -e "To prevent overwriting, the installer will be aborted."
	echo -e "Please rename the \e[1m~/MagicMirror\e[0m\e[93m folder and try again.\e[0m"
	echo ""
	echo -e "If you want to upgrade your installation run \e[1m\e[97mgit pull\e[0m from the ~/MagicMirror directory."
	echo ""
	exit;
fi

echo -e "\e[96mCloning MagicMirror ...\e[90m"
if git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror.git; then 
	echo -e "\e[92mCloning MagicMirror Done!\e[0m"
else
	echo -e "\e[91mUnable to clone MagicMirror."
	exit;
fi

cd ~/MagicMirror  || exit
echo -e "\e[96mInstalling dependencies ...\e[90m"
if npm install; then 
	echo -e "\e[92mDependencies installation Done!\e[0m"
else
	echo -e "\e[91mUnable to install dependencies!"
	exit;
fi

# Check if plymouth is installed (default with PIXEL desktop environment), then install custom splashscreen.
echo -e "\e[96mCheck plymouth installation ...\e[0m"
if command_exists plymouth; then
	THEME_DIR="/usr/share/plymouth/themes"
	echo -e "\e[90mSplashscreen: Checking themes directory.\e[0m"
	if [ -d $THEME_DIR ]; then
		echo -e "\e[90mSplashscreen: Create theme directory if not exists.\e[0m"
		if [ ! -d $THEME_DIR/MagicMirror ]; then
			sudo mkdir $THEME_DIR/MagicMirror
		fi

		if sudo cp ~/MagicMirror/splashscreen/splash.png $THEME_DIR/MagicMirror/splash.png && sudo cp ~/MagicMirror/splashscreen/MagicMirror.plymouth $THEME_DIR/MagicMirror/MagicMirror.plymouth && sudo cp ~/MagicMirror/splashscreen/MagicMirror.script $THEME_DIR/MagicMirror/MagicMirror.script; then
			echo -e "\e[90mSplashscreen: Theme copied successfully.\e[0m"
			if sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -R MagicMirror; then
				echo -e "\e[92mSplashscreen: Changed theme to MagicMirror successfully.\e[0m"
			else
				echo -e "\e[91mSplashscreen: Couldn't change theme to MagicMirror!\e[0m"
			fi
		else
			echo -e "\e[91mSplashscreen: Copying theme failed!\e[0m"
		fi
	else
		echo -e "\e[91mSplashscreen: Themes folder doesn't exist!\e[0m"
	fi
else
	echo -e "\e[93mplymouth is not installed.\e[0m";
fi

echo " "
echo -e "\e[92mWe're ready! Run \e[1m\e[97mDISPLAY=:0 npm start\e[0m\e[92m from the ~/MagicMirror directory to start your MagicMirror.\e[0m"
echo " "
echo " "

Literally no idea what happened there. But, if I navigate to the magicmirror folder now and do an “npm install”, I get:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm install
npm WARN engine deep-extend@0.4.1: wanted: {"node":">=0.12.0","iojs":">=1.0.0"} (current: {"node":"0.10.29","npm":"1.4.21"})
/
> electron@1.4.15 postinstall /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron
> node install.js

sh: 1: node: not found
npm WARN This failure might be due to the use of legacy binary "node"
npm WARN For further explanations, please read
/usr/share/doc/nodejs/README.Debian
 
npm ERR! electron@1.4.15 postinstall: `node install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 127
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the electron@1.4.15 postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the electron package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node install.js
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls electron
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! System Linux 4.4.38-v7+
npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! cwd /home/pi/MagicMirror
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.29
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.21
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/MagicMirror/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

strawberry 3.141

@EttVenter you have to use the | bash part, because what is doing is the following, curl will load the script from github and then you pipe it right into the bash command to execute the script otherwise you would just load the file

EttVenter

@strawberry-3.141 Ok so what do I do then? Because if I run the command with the bash part of the command, it tells me “No such file or directory”. So how do I solve that?

strawberry 3.141

@EttVenter did you probably start the command from a wrong directory? do cd ~ first

EttVenter

@strawberry-3.141

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd ~
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/master/installers/raspberry.sh | bash cd ~/MagicMirror
bash: cd: No such file or directory
pi@raspberrypi:~ $

Then I even went ahead and manually created that directory, and it still doesn’t work:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ mkdir MagicMirror
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ls
Desktop  Documents  Downloads  MagicMirror  Music  Pictures  Public  Templates  Videos
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/master/installers/raspberry.sh | bash cd ~/MagicMirror
bash: cd: No such file or directory
pi@raspberrypi:~ $

strawberry 3.141

@EttVenter just remove the directory magicmirror again that you created and run the command curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/master/installers/raspberry.sh | bash as it is in the readme after it was successful do cd MagicMirror