• Recent
  • Tags
  • Unsolved
  • Solved
  • MagicMirror² Repository
  • Documentation
  • 3rd-Party-Modules
  • Donate
  • Discord
  • Register
  • Login
MagicMirror Forum
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Unsolved
  • Solved
  • MagicMirror² Repository
  • Documentation
  • 3rd-Party-Modules
  • Donate
  • Discord
  • Register
  • Login
A New Chapter for MagicMirror: The Community Takes the Lead
Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.

Electron failed to install properly

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Troubleshooting
11 Posts 4 Posters 9.0k Views 3 Watching
Loading More Posts
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • D Offline
    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

    1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 2
    • 1
    • 2
    • 2 / 2
    2 / 2
    • First post
      11/11
      Last post
    Enjoying MagicMirror? Please consider a donation!
    MagicMirror created by Michael Teeuw.
    Forum managed by Sam, technical setup by Karsten.
    This forum is using NodeBB as its core | Contributors
    Contact | Privacy Policy