Issues installing on rpi2

[K-w-b]

Hi folks,
tried to setup a new MM version on a rpi2. Followed every step in the (current) manual installation procedure, but it fails every time. Tried to reinstall and add features several times, now I do not know what to do next… any idea?

Here are the logs from ‘npm install’

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm install

> electron-chromedriver@6.0.0 install /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron-chromedriver
> node ./download-chromedriver.js

internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:638
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'debug'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:636:15)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:562:25)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:692:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:25:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron-download/lib/index.js:4:15)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:789:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:653:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:593:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:585:3)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! electron-chromedriver@6.0.0 install: `node ./download-chromedriver.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the electron-chromedriver@6.0.0 install 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/2020-04-15T07_19_42_745Z-debug.log
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ node ./download-chromedriver.js
internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:638
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module '/home/pi/MagicMirror/download-chromedriver.js'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:636:15)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:562:25)
    at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:831:12)
    at startup (internal/bootstrap/node.js:283:19)
    at bootstrapNodeJSCore (internal/bootstrap/node.js:623:3)

and as this seems to be related to electron the log for: ‘npm install electron@6.0.12’

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm install electron@6.0.12

> electron-chromedriver@6.0.0 install /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron-chromedriver
> node ./download-chromedriver.js

internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:638
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'debug'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:636:15)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:562:25)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:692:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:25:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron-download/lib/index.js:4:15)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:789:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:653:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:593:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:585:3)
npm WARN grunt-eslint@22.0.0 requires a peer of grunt@>=1 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN grunt-stylelint@0.14.0 requires a peer of stylelint@^13.2.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN grunt-yamllint@0.3.0 requires a peer of grunt@>=1.0.1 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN stylelint-config-recommended@3.0.0 requires a peer of stylelint@>=10.1.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN stylelint-config-standard@20.0.0 requires a peer of stylelint@>=10.1.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! electron-chromedriver@6.0.0 install: `node ./download-chromedriver.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the electron-chromedriver@6.0.0 install 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/2020-04-15T07_22_40_386Z-debug.log

[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?