NPM install is giving Error.

merceg100 · Jul 21, 2018, 2:17 PM

@alessandroiacovella said in NPM install is giving Error.:

What command do you type to upgrade npm?

After I installed MM using this command:
git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror

then I ran:
sudo apt-get install npm

afterwards:
cd MagicMirror

npm install

Then I tried

npm install -g npm@latest

but it didnt work also.
I am running latest updated Raspbian on RPi 3 b+

NoNameRo · Aug 5, 2018, 8:11 PM

@merceg100

please try the following

sudo apt-get remove nodejs nodejs-legacy nodered

after that

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_$NODE_STABLE_BRANCH | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
npm install -g npm@latest

after that enter in the repository with

cd MagicMirror

then install and run the app with

npm install && npm start

in case of errors please post here.

why do not you use the automatic installation for the RPi 3 b +

bash -c "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/master/installers/raspberry.sh)"

fire1ce · Jul 21, 2018, 2:57 PM

@nonamero

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_$NODE_STABLE_BRANCH | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
npm install -g npm@latest

won’t install npm. getting command not found: npm

NoNameRo · Jul 21, 2018, 2:59 PM

@fire1ce

try

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
npm install -g npm@latest

fire1ce · Jul 21, 2018, 6:17 PM

@nonamero said in NPM install is giving Error.:

@fire1ce

try

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
npm install -g npm@latest

thanks. that helps.

dnwmhaha · Aug 5, 2018, 8:11 PM

@nonamero

Hi, Thank you for your help. I have been trying to install MM. At first, I had a trouble installing electron and node. Now I got dependencies error.

I’ve tried what you suggested and I got the following error.

During the installation of MM, I got Unable to install dependencies!.

Could you please help?

//your code here
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ bash -c "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/master/installers/raspberry.sh)"

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$$\$$\$$ $$ | \____$$\ $$  __$$\ $$ |$$  _____|$$\$$\$$ $$ |$$ |$$  __$$\ $$  __$$\ $$  __$$\ $$  __$$\  $$$$$$  |
$$ \$$$  $$ | $$$$$$$ |$$ /  $$ |$$ |$$ /      $$ \$$$  $$ |$$ |$$ |  \__|$$ |  \__|$$ /  $$ |$$ |  \__|$$  ____/
$$ |\$  /$$ |$$  __$$ |$$ |  $$ |$$ |$$ |      $$ |\$  /$$ |$$ |$$ |      $$ |      $$ |  $$ |$$ |      $$ |
$$ | \_/ $$ |\$$$$$$$ |\$$$$$$$ |$$ |\$$$$$$$\ $$ | \_/ $$ |$$ |$$ |      $$ |      \$$$$$$  |$$ |      $$$$$$$$\
\__|     \__| \_______| \____$$ |\__| \_______|\__|     \__|\__|\__|      \__|       \______/ \__|      \________|
                       $$\   $$ |
                       \$$$$$$  |
                        \______/

Updating packages ...
Hit:1 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian stretch InRelease
Get:2 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian stretch InRelease [25.3 kB]
Hit:3 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_8.x stretch InRelease    
Fetched 25.3 kB in 1s (13.7 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Installing helper tools ...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version (12.3).
curl is already the newest version (7.52.1-5+deb9u6).
git is already the newest version (1:2.11.0-3+deb9u3).
unzip is already the newest version (6.0-21).
wget is already the newest version (1.18-5+deb9u2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Check current Node installation ...
Node currently installed. Checking version number.
Minimum Node version: v5.1.0
Installed Node version: v5.7.0
No Node.js upgrade necessary.
Cloning MagicMirror ...
Cloning into 'MagicMirror'...
remote: Counting objects: 276, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (245/245), done.
remote: Total 276 (delta 34), reused 129 (delta 21), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (276/276), 383.32 KiB | 688.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (34/34), done.
Cloning MagicMirror Done!
Installing dependencies ...
/home/pi/.nvm/versions/node/v5.7.0/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js:82
      let notifier = require('update-notifier')({pkg})
      ^^^

SyntaxError: Block-scoped declarations (let, const, function, class) not yet supported outside strict mode
    at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:387:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:422:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:357:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:314:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:447:10)
    at startup (node.js:141:18)
    at node.js:933:3
Unable to install dependencies!
pi@raspberrypi:~ $

Alex_ · Aug 15, 2018, 10:36 AM

@postremalone said in NPM install is giving Error.:

NPM install is giving error.

Help please.

I meet the same issue than you and I solved it by uninstalling nodejs

sudo apt-get remove nodejs

and reinstall nodejs by using the MagicMirror install script

bash -c "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/master/installers/raspberry.sh)"

During the installation, npm install -g npm@latest give me this error

npm ERR! path /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/ansi-regex
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! syscall access
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/ansi-regex'
npm ERR!  { Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/ansi-regex'
npm ERR!   stack: 'Error: EACCES: permission denied, access \'/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/ansi-regex\'',
npm ERR!   errno: -13,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   syscall: 'access',
npm ERR!   path: '/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/ansi-regex' }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

and I run same command as root to solved this

sudo npm install -g npm@latest

Here is version of nodejs install by MagicMirror script :

Installed Node version: v9.11.2

epi · Sep 13, 2018, 10:42 AM

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm start

> magicmirror@2.4.1 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
> sh run-start.sh

/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/index.js:1
(function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) {


SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token
    at new Script (vm.js:51:7)
    at createScript (vm.js:136:10)
    at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:197:10)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:618:28)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:665:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:566:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:506:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:498:3)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:598:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:11:18)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.4.1 start: `sh run-start.sh`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.4.1 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/2018-09-13T10_40_56_673Z-debug.log

devinhedge · Jan 6, 2019, 1:19 PM

@nonamero I’ve brought this up on another thread, but I’ll mention here so that it is captured in context: for the last couple months Node.js and npm are currently BROKEN on RaspberryPi.

I just tried a test this morning using the started Electron app at https://electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/first-app

Running the automated install is a Red Herring. It is inappropriate to suggest it.

We have to figure out how to fix the bugs in the Node.js installation for Raspberry Pi before anything else. I’m wondering if installing an older version of Node.js is the solution. If so, then what version would we start with?

paddyhughes · Jan 6, 2019, 3:35 PM

@postremalone

I just installed a module and it asked me to update NPM think i did it in the root directory not MagicMirror one can be sure.

This is what worked for me
sudo npm i -g npm