Electron Error

[ysh]

Hello I have an issue while installing MM. I use the manual install method, but upon running npm start i get

~/MagicMirror$ npm start

> magicmirror@2.29.0 start
> DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:=:0}" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js

node:events:496
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: spawn /home/ysh/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron ENOENT
    at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:285:19)
    at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:483:16)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:90:21)
Emitted 'error' event on ChildProcess instance at:
    at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:291:12)
    at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:483:16)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:90:21) {
  errno: -2,
  code: 'ENOENT',
  syscall: 'spawn /home/ysh/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron',
  path: '/home/ysh/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron',
  spawnargs: [ 'js/electron.js' ]
}

I use XFCE4 but this error shows both on SSH and on XFCE4-Terminal. Is my DE the issue? I wish to use OpenBox alone though but this is just for testing purposes.
Thank you!

[sdetweil]

@ysh what do you mean by DE and openbox means in VM?

what os are you running?

[ysh]

@sdetweil I use PostMarketOS (Alpine), i am not planning to use MM as an actual mirror. By DE I mean Desktop Enviroment which in my case is XFCE4.

[sdetweil]

@ysh I don’t use mirror either … just info panel…

I have not tried alpine in a while now…

this sounds like an electron problem

if you start in server mode

npm run server
can you access with browser
http://localhost:8080
(with default settings)