Absolute Beginner Needing Help Installing Dependencies

[leroyhab]

Hello
I meet the same issue.
I have run the installation bash on a fresh newly setup raspberry pi 3 B.

After this error, I tried to installa previous version of electron

sudo npm install -g electron@1.7.6

Error log is the same :

(node:1853) [DEP0022] DeprecationWarning: os.tmpDir() is deprecated. Use os.tmpdir() instead.
npm ERR! Error: Method Not Allowed
npm ERR!     at errorResponse (/usr/share/npm/lib/cache/add-named.js:260:10)
npm ERR!     at /usr/share/npm/lib/cache/add-named.js:203:12
npm ERR!     at saved (/usr/share/npm/node_modules/npm-registry-client/lib/get.js:167:7)
npm ERR!     at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:135:15)
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this *entire* log,
npm ERR! including the npm and node versions, at:
npm ERR!     <http://github.com/npm/npm/issues>

npm ERR! System Linux 4.14.79-v7+
npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "electron@1.7.6"
npm ERR! cwd /home/pi/MagicMirror
npm ERR! node -v v8.11.1
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.21
npm ERR! code E405
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/MagicMirror/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

If you find some answer to this issue, I will be glad to setup my mirror.

[mdhenriksen]

@bhall321 HI! I see you are using the automatic installer which - I seem to recall - is missing Node. I would recommend doing a manual installation instead. The steps to do it is on GitHub and they are very easy to follow :-)

[leroyhab]

hello mdhenriksen

Thank you for your answer

I have run the automatic installer and the first error I got was “npm Command unknown”

So I installed Node and Npm and re-ran the automatic installer .
Then I got this error.

I am setting the sdcard for the raspberry Pi from scratch then i will try the manual step by step.

Thank you
Best regards

Habib

[mdhenriksen]

@leroyhab Great! I think you will have more luck with that. Let me know how it goes!

[sdetweil]

@leroyhab said in Absolute Beginner Needing Help Installing Dependencies:

npm -v 1.4.21

npm is downlevel… mine is 6.6.0

google search on upgrading npm…

[leroyhab]

Hello
I am reading the step-by-step from github
First thing missing is the installation of NPM
Raspbian Stretch does not come with npm preinstalled (neither in normal, light or full version)

Is there a recommended version of npm ?

[sdetweil]

@leroyhab whatever the latest is…

this is a failing of the install script to check and install/update to the right levels

execute

sudo npm install npm@latest -g

[leroyhab]

Hello
Wunderbar !!

npm is installed with node !

manual setup finished succesfully

thank you very much

[sdetweil]

awesome!

[kdavis]

@sdetweil does that mean the automatic setup doesn’t have it or the manual github setup doesn’t have it listed as a step? :thinking_face: