Error on npm install

paddyhughes

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

rmeskill

@paddyhughes said in Error on npm install:

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

sudo npm i -g npm didn’t work for me, got this error:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo npm i -g npm
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js:85
      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:414:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:442:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:311:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:467:10)
    at startup (node.js:134:18)
    at node.js:961:3

Trying just with npm i -g npm instead…

rmeskill

@rmeskill said in Error on npm install:

Trying just with npm i -g npm instead…

Did give me a positive output:

Trying just with npm i -g npm instead…

Trying npm install again…

paddyhughes

@rmeskill try do it in the MagicMirror folder
sudo npm i -g npm

sdetweil

@paddyhughes -g means global, not mm specific.

rmeskill

@paddyhughes said in Error on npm install:

@rmeskill try do it in the MagicMirror folder
sudo npm i -g npm

Sudo still doesn’t work, but I tried it again just ‘npm i -g npm’ in the MagicMirror folder. Now I’m trying npm install again in the MagicMirror folder again, so I guess we’ll see, but it looks like it’s stuck at the same point as last time

sdetweil

@rmeskill looks like node is also downlevel

rmeskill

@sdetweil said in Error on npm install:

@rmeskill looks like node is also downlevel

Do you mean I should upgrade it? this isn’t enough:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ node -v
v11.6.0

sdetweil

@rmeskill that is a surprise

rmeskill

Now I’m trying to remove npm and nodejs to start again, but even after I’ve run apt-get remove npm nodejs I still get this:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ which npm
/home/pi/.nvm/versions/node/v11.6.0/bin/npm
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ which node
/home/pi/.nvm/versions/node/v11.6.0/bin/node