Installation Error - Electron installer issue

[kristofvdo]

Dear community,

I’m trying to use the automatic installer on a new rasp pi 3, update jessie raspbian version ( no other packages installed ) but I’m getting the same error over and over again.
The installation always fails at the point of post install of Electron ( see screenshot below )

Cloning MagicMirror Done!

module.js:442
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module '/root/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron-prebuilt/install.js'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:440:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:388:25)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:575:10)
    at startup (node.js:160:18)
    at node.js:456:3

At the end, the installation stops with the following error:

npm ERR! electron-prebuilt@1.2.1 postinstall: `node install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the electron-prebuilt@1.2.1 postinstall script 'node install.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 electron-prebuilt 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 information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR!     npm bugs electron-prebuilt
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls electron-prebuilt
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

Anyone some thoughts they want to share?
Thanks

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[Corvis1984]

Same error on my side … I hoped to find a solution here but it looks like no one answered …

[amanzimdwini]

I have the same error - running it on a headless Pi3 (ie I Putty in from elsewhere and monitor the output from elsewhere too).
I have been told that I should not run MM from the CLI, but rather that "The application needs to be started while the GUI-environment is running.’

Can you please confirm if you are running ON THE PI directly or if you SSH’ed in?

[Corvis1984]

@amanzimdwini

I’m running directly on the PI !

[Bangee]

Hey there!

You should not install MagicMirror as Root in the /root directory.

check out this:
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/259/installing-mm2/10

I think it is the same issue.

@Bangee said in Installing MM2:

as I c, you’ve installed your MagicMirror in the /root directory.
I’m not sure if this is working so far.

Try to install everything as pi and not as root in the /home/pi directory and let us know what happend.

try whoami -> pi

update your distribution with sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

then cd /home/pi or only cd

and install again: curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/master/installers/raspberry.sh | bash

[Corvis1984]

@Bangee

Thanks for your answer, I’m going to try that right now !

[Bangee]

how was it? :-)

[amanzimdwini]

@Corvis1984
I found this one
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/236/complete-setup-tutorial/2
and it worked like a charm… (and it it so detailed even I could not mess it up)

On top of that, it is lean and made my WiFi FINALLY work too. Now all I need is the toaster attachment to my Pi

Best of luck!

[Corvis1984]

@Bangee

Perfect ! I installed MM2 as PI user and it works now !

Thanks for your help