Errors trying to run MM on Pi3

[Esinem]

Help! I’m a complete noob trying to go through the installation tutorial. https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/236/complete-setup-tutorial/6 but it’s complaining about node install.js I tried updating npm but still get this:

magicmirror@2.1.3 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
sh run-start.sh

run-start.sh: 4: run-start.sh: electron: not found
npm ERR! file sh
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall spawn
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.1.3 start: sh run-start.sh
npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.1.3 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2018-01-01T01_22_06_331Z-debug.log

Any suggestions in extremely plain English very welcome. Thanks and happy New Year.

[bhepler]

@Esinem It seems that you do not have Electron installed on your Pi. If you install electron, it should overcome that error.

First, go to your home directory: cd ~
Then install electron: npm install electron@1.4.15
Once that is complete, try starting the mirror again.

Good luck!

NOTE: This won’t work (see below). Instead cd ~/MagicMirror.

[Esinem]

Thanks but it didn’t seem to work :-( I tried what you said and then continued with the steps in the tutorial but as you can see it failed. I tried running it again but more errors.

I’m off to bang my head on a wall! :-) I’m quite prepared to believe I’m doing something idiotic as I’m a total Pi/Raspbrian/Python virgin.

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ magicmirror@2.1.3 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
bash: magicmirror@2.1.3: command not found
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd MagicMirror/config
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/config $ cp config.js.sample config.js
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/config $ cd $HOME/MagicMirror
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm start

magicmirror@2.1.3 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
sh run-start.sh

run-start.sh: 4: run-start.sh: electron: not found
npm ERR! file sh
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall spawn
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.1.3 start: sh run-start.sh
npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.1.3 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2018-01-01T17_47_18_127Z-debug.log
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ cd ~
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ npm install electron@1.4.15

electron@1.4.15 postinstall /home/pi/node_modules/electron
node install.js

npm WARN saveError ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘/home/pi/package.json’
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘/home/pi/package.json’
npm WARN pi No description
npm WARN pi No repository field.
npm WARN pi No README data
npm WARN pi No license field.

• electron@1.4.15
  updated 1 package in 42.487s
  pi@raspberrypi:~ $

[strawberry 3.141]

@Esinem you installed it in /home/pi instead of /home/pi/MagicMirror

[Esinem]

@strawberry-3.141 Thanks. Isn’t that what I was told to do or am I completely misunderstanding things?

First, go to your home directory: cd ~
Then install electron: npm install electron@1.4.15

I think I need to study some very basic tutorials before I even try to install stuff!

[strawberry 3.141]

@Esinem its a dependency of magicmirror so it should be installed in the magicmirror directory or globally. Try cd ~/MagicMirror and then the install command again

[Esinem]

Aha! Many thanks. We seem to be getting somewhere now but not out of the woods yet. MM loads, which is a result, and I get a black screen with a little drop-down with options like full screen, properties, session info but no data displayed. Something flashed up fast as it loaded which I think indicated it couldn’t find something. Helper module? I’m not sure it’s relevant as I see some modules don’t have helper files

I had errors relating to electron@1.17.10 so tried installing that but no change.

Here’s my screen: https://photos.app.goo.gl/4Qbew2OasrjvqhWH2 Doh! Just figured out the drop down is to do with VNC not MM.

I ran dev and I can see the line with config.js is highlighted. It tested without syntax errors. I appreciate sample stuff needs localising but should the clone of the sample show something or do I need to make any changes to display anything?

[Esinem]

Hurrah!! I found a post dated 3 days ago by Lange which solved it:

npm install --unsafe-perm

Thanks for your input.