Issues installing on rpi2

MichMich

What version of NPM are you using? npm -v

K-w-b

Running on 6.14.4’

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ npm version
{ npm: '6.14.4',
  ares: '1.15.0',
  brotli: '1.0.7',
  cldr: '35.1',
  http_parser: '2.9.3',
  icu: '64.2',
  modules: '64',
  napi: '6',
  nghttp2: '1.39.2',
  node: '10.20.1',
  openssl: '1.1.1e',
  tz: '2019c',
  unicode: '12.1',
  uv: '1.34.2',
  v8: '6.8.275.32-node.56',
  zlib: '1.2.11' }

MichMich

Tha’s weird. You could try installing ‘debug’:

npm install debug

sdetweil

@MichMich @K-w-b its because he is on a pi2, armv6l…

he needs to do
npm install --only=prod
to NOT try to load the chromedriver, which doesn’t exist… (same as our optional dependency for electron on armv6l) (I think its spectron which is dragging in the chromedriver)

@K-w-b please use the automated install script… it fixes a bunch of problems om armv6l systems.
see here , https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts
read the readme online for the command to issue…
u will need to erase the MagicMirror folder to run install again

K-w-b

thank you @MichMich and @sdetweil for the responsed.

before I saw Sam’s notice, I wiped the SD card again and started with a new raspbian version from scratch. Everything from the manual installation worked fine now - MM launches. The only thing I might have done different is rebooting raspbi after upgrading sudo apt full-upgrade - Needless to say that this is a major facepalm on my side.
So to whoever reads this in the future - follow the instructions shown on the screen (!)

sdetweil

@K-w-b great news!!,

which raspian version were u trying and which worked?