SOLVED NPM install error

jkhania

I followed the manual install walk through.

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm install

Now I’m getting an electron error. How do I troubleshoot this?

 electron@1.4.15 postinstall /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron
 node install.js

npm WARN This failure might be due to the use of legacy binary "node"
npm WARN For further explanations, please read
/usr/share/doc/nodejs/README.Debian
 
npm ERR! electron@1.4.15 postinstall: `node install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the electron@1.4.15 postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the electron package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node install.js
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls electron
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! System Linux 4.1.19-v7+
npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! cwd /home/pi/MagicMirror
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.29
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.21
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/MagicMirror/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

jkhania

@morozgrafix Thank you morozgrafix. I discovered that the node instructions i found were wayyy old.

I’ve updated it but ran into new problems. ha! Thanks everyone!

cowboysdude

I would delete it and start over… something didn’t take… Are you installing it manually?

morozgrafix

npm ERR! node -v v0.10.29
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.21

Those look like very old versions of npm and node. Can you please run following commands in your terminal and post output?

node --version

and

npm --version

Thanks.

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jkhania

@morozgrafix Thank you morozgrafix. I discovered that the node instructions i found were wayyy old.

I’ve updated it but ran into new problems. ha! Thanks everyone!

cowboysdude

@jkhania said in NPM install error:

@morozgrafix Thank you morozgrafix. I discovered that the node instructions i found were wayyy old.

I’ve updated it but ran into new problems. ha! Thanks everyone!

Honestly the problems may be all the mixing that has happened. I would just start over with the new instructions