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    Electron failed to install properly

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      dpenney
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      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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