After 2.8 I'm having tons of issues. What are the steps from square 1 to get this working?

[Gomalley]

@sdetweil
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ npm i -g npm
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/local/lib/node_modules
npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! syscall access
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access ‘/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm’
npm ERR! { [Error: EACCES: permission denied, access ‘/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm’]
npm ERR! stack:
npm ERR! ‘Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm'’,
npm ERR! errno: -13,
npm ERR! code: ‘EACCES’,
npm ERR! syscall: ‘access’,
npm ERR! path: ‘/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm’ }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! The operation was rejected by your operating system.
npm ERR! It is likely you do not have the permissions to access this file as the current user
npm ERR!
npm ERR! If you believe this might be a permissions issue, please double-check the
npm ERR! permissions of the file and its containing directories, or try running
npm ERR! the command again as root/Administrator (though this is not recommended).

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2019-08-05T19_21_26_414Z-debug.log

[sdetweil]

@Gomalley go old sudo screws thing up again…

cd ~
sudo chown -R pi .

Then try again…

[Gomalley]

@sdetweil this is what happened when I typed in the command

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo chown -R pi
chown: missing operand after ‘pi’
Try ‘chown --help’ for more information.

[sdetweil]

@Gomalley there was a dot at the end, it was important

[Gomalley]

@sdetweil

Sorry, I missed that.
This is what happened

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd ~
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo chown -R pi .
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ 

It just went to the next line. Not sure why

[sdetweil]

@Gomalley it doesn’t say anything, it just changes ownership of everything in the home folder and down to the user pi.

Now, back to what u were doing before

[Gomalley]

@sdetweil
I tried to excute some of the commands you gave me

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ pm2 logs
[PM2] Spawning PM2 daemon with pm2_home=/home/pi/.pm2
internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:583
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'shelljs'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:581:15)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:507:25)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:637:17)
    at require (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/node_modules/v8-compile-cache/v8-compile-cache.js:161:20)
    at module.exports.Client.launchDaemon (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/Client.js:244:7)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/Client.js:103:10
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/Client.js:311:14
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:61:11)
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ npm i -g npm
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/local/lib/node_modules
npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! syscall access
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm'
npm ERR!  { [Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm']
npm ERR!   stack:
npm ERR!    'Error: EACCES: permission denied, access \'/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm\'',
npm ERR!   errno: -13,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   syscall: 'access',
npm ERR!   path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm' }
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! The operation was rejected by your operating system.
npm ERR! It is likely you do not have the permissions to access this file as the current user
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! If you believe this might be a permissions issue, please double-check the
npm ERR! permissions of the file and its containing directories, or try running
npm ERR! the command again as root/Administrator (though this is not recommended).

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2019-08-06T18_59_40_902Z-debug.log
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ 

I ran “pm2 logs” and “npm i -g npm”
Looks like I got similar results. Should I do

npm install

In the MagicMirror folder now?

[sdetweil]

@Gomalley no. Looks like u installed npm w sudo(root)

So, short term do

sudo npm i -g npm

[Gomalley]

@sdetweil Sweet I think that worked

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo npm i -g npm
/usr/local/bin/npm -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js
/usr/local/bin/npx -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npx-cli.js
+ npm@6.10.3
updated 3 packages in 128.39s
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ 

Now that I have done that, Should I run

npm install

and then:

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm install

[sdetweil]

@Gomalley only

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm install