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Electron failed to install properly

Troubleshooting

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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

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