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

[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

[EttVenter]

@strawberry-3.141 said in Total n00b and can’t get this thing to work. Please help!:

cd MagicMirror

That was going well until:

Cloning MagicMirror Done!
Installing dependencies ...
npm ERR! cb() never called!
Unable to install dependencies!

Honestly, this process is awful. “All you need to do is run 1 command!”. 1 command my ass. I’ve been fidgeting with this thing for a full day and I haven’t even got this frikken thing installed yet.

I’m really, really stoked that you guys are all helping me. Really. And I know that we’ll get this thing working. But the “packaging” kinda lied to me.

[EttVenter]

Good morning, folks.

Anyone got any ideas?

[strawberry 3.141]

@EttVenter can you go into the cloned directory and run npm install manually, hopefully we get a more detailed error log then

[EttVenter]

@strawberry-3.141

Sure thing. Here’s the result:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm install
npm ERR! cb() never called!
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ 

[EttVenter]

Ok guys. So I nuked my previous raspbian install, and got a new one going. Managed to get an update node install, so things SEEM to be going better. Tried to install magic mirror again, and it went well until right at the end, when I got this:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm install
npm WARN prefer global coffee-script@1.10.0 should be installed with -g
npm WARN prefer global jsonlint@1.6.2 should be installed with -g
npm WARN prefer global colorguard@1.2.0 should be installed with -g

And when I try to do a npm start, I get:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm start

> magicmirror@2.1.0 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
> electron js/electron.js

/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/index.js:9
  throw new Error('Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/' + path.basename(__dirname) + ' and try installing again')
  ^

Error: Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again
    at Object. (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/index.js:9:9)
    at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:497:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object. (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/cli.js:3:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)

npm ERR! Linux 4.4.34-v7+
npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "start"
npm ERR! node v6.10.0
npm ERR! npm  v3.10.10
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.1.0 start: `electron js/electron.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.1.0 start script 'electron js/electron.js'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the magicmirror package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     electron js/electron.js
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR!     npm bugs magicmirror
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls magicmirror
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/MagicMirror/npm-debug.log

I feel like I’m getting closer to making this thing actually work though. Any ideas?

Thanks!