Getting MM running on Debian 10 not on a RPi

nimbu

Hi Guys,

I had a very specific use case where I wanted to use Debian (LXDE) with an old laptop to run Magic Mirror.

I am by no means a linux expert! But I did some tinkering and couldnt get the install script working. The following steps might help you getting MM running on a Debian 10 machine. I used the debian-live-10.0.0-amd64-lxde.iso to install Debian.

Once installed, log in to the system with the user you created during setup.

Open a terminal window, and run the following:

su

Enter the root password when prompted and then run the following:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install openssh-server

Once complete I found it easier to go back to my main machine and use putty.

Open a Putty connection to your machine, login with the user you created during setup

Once at the terminal, type the following:

su

Enter the root password when prompted and then run the following:

apt-get --assume-yes install curl wget git build-essential unzip gcc g++ make
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -
apt-get update
apt-get install -y nodejs
apt-get install -y npm
curl -sL https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
apt-get update
apt-get install yarn
exit

This should return you to the mm user you have setup, at the command line type the following:

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror.git
cd MagicMirror/
cp config/config.js.sample config/config.js
npm install
npm audit fix

Close out the session and then go back to the machine and run a terminal prompt and type the following to start mm!

cd MagicMirror
npm start

YMMV but hope this helps others out there trying to get this to work too.