Electron failed to install properly

[cowboysdude]

Are you starting your mirror over ssh?

That would be the only reason to use DISPLAY=:0 npm start

[cianoo45]

Yeah I am

[MichMich]

Which version of Raspbian are you using?

[cianoo45]

The latest one, Jesse, only downloaded it a couple days ago

[MichMich]

Jessie or Jessie Lite?

[cianoo45]

Full version of Jessie, not Jessie light

[cianoo45]

When i type “node --version” it says i have V4.0.0 installed which is very outdated, could this be why?

[cianoo45]

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When i type “node --version” it says i have V4.0.0 installed which is very outdated, could this be why?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

[dpenney]

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.

[dpenney]

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