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Electron failed to install properly

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  • M Offline
    MichMich Admin
    last edited by Jan 21, 2017, 11:59 AM

    Jessie or Jessie Lite?

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      cianoo45
      last edited by Jan 21, 2017, 12:02 PM

      Full version of Jessie, not Jessie light

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        cianoo45
        last edited by Jan 21, 2017, 2:04 PM

        When i type “node --version” it says i have V4.0.0 installed which is very outdated, could this be why?

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          cianoo45 @cianoo45
          last edited by Jan 21, 2017, 2:23 PM

          @cianoo45 said in Electron failed to install properly:

          When i type “node --version” it says i have V4.0.0 installed which is very outdated, could this be why?

          Nevermind, updated to V7.4 and i still get the same error when running

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            dpenney
            last edited by dpenney Jan 21, 2017, 7:53 PM Jan 21, 2017, 7:52 PM

            Getting the exact same thing here too - Raspberry Pi3 - any ideas?

            16 error Linux 4.4.34-v7+
            17 error argv “/usr/local/bin/node” “/usr/local/bin/npm” “start”
            18 error node v6.9.4
            19 error npm v3.10.10
            20 error file sh
            21 error code ELIFECYCLE
            22 error errno ENOENT
            23 error syscall spawn
            24 error magicmirror@2.1.0 start: electron js/electron.js
            24 error spawn ENOENT
            25 error Failed at the magicmirror@2.1.0 start script ‘electron js/electron.js’.

            I had tried using the latest node too - I downgraded to v6.9.4 just on the off chance it was a versioning thing but as you can see no go.

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              dpenney
              last edited by Jan 21, 2017, 8:18 PM

              AH HA! So turns out you need to install as root - the regular pi user doesn’t have enough permissions to install socket.io which is a dependency of electron…

              The manual install instructions should be updated to state

              sudo npm install
              npm start

              Damian

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