need help installing MMPM - losing my mind

Cote289

Hello new user here.

trying to setup a magic mirror for my wife.

got the hardware and MM installed and now i’m trying to install some modules to get it set up.

MMPM seems like a good first one to help get all the modules setup correctly but I cannot for the life of me get it working

I’m good with computers but a bit of a noob for linux and rasberry pi stuff. This is my first build.

Per the instructions I can install it via docker and I run that command

docker pull karsten13/mmpm

that seems to run and do its thing but its not installed.

so I try the python method listed

python3 -m pip install --upgrade mmpm

Here’s where I get this error:

python3 -m pip install --upgrade mmpm
error: externally-managed-environment

This environment is externally managed

To install Python packages system-wide, try apt install
python3-xyz, where xyz is the package you are trying to
install.

If you wish to install a non-Debian-packaged Python package,
create a virtual environment using python3 -m venv path/to/venv.
Then use path/to/venv/bin/python and path/to/venv/bin/pip. Make
sure you have python3-full installed.

For more information visit http://rptl.io/venv

note: If you believe this is a mistake, please contact your Python installation or OS distribution provider. You can override this, at the risk of breaking your Python installation or OS, by passing --break-system-packages.
hint: See PEP 668 for the detailed specification.

Please help!

what do I do to install this module to set up my magic mirror?

thank you all in advance

Ben

sdetweil

@Cote289 i do not know, never having been successful myself

you could try my MMM-Config module which also supports installing modules and provides full MagicMirror config

https://github.com/sdetweil/MMM-Config

all js and shell script

KristjanESPERANTO

mmpm is a cool project.

Instead this:

python3 -m pip install --upgrade mmpm

This may work (I don’t have time to test it now ):

sudo apt install pipx
pipx install mmpm

@bee-mar Can you help here (and maybe update your installation instructions)?

By the way: There is also a manual (like official) way to install modules. You do not need a manager for installing modules.

sdetweil

@Cote289 for manual install of modules, see the 1st link in my signature below

lmhmm

Yes,

I used to use the graphical interface which really liked then it stopped working. I used the python install and now it just works via command line:

mmpm update

Cycles through all installed modules and says if upgrades needed.

mmpm upgrade

Updates !

How simple and efficient!

Any messages I’ve had following them usually results in correcting any issues. It also updates itself.

I’ve now come to prefer using the command line.

Good luck! I can’t get mmconfig to work at all …

sdetweil

@lmhmm said in need help installing MMPM - losing my mind:

I can’t get mmconfig to work at all …

If you are willing, I’d like to understand and resolve any problems you found

lmhmm

@sdetweil Okay, I did a fresh MM install and got MMM-Config to work. However when bring up the module installer (the main reason I want MMM-Config), it takes ages to load then shows briefly. The minute I move to the search to start typing it says magic mirror installer not running … so I have to reload etc.

So I never get to use it … base configure comes up okay.

Stuck …

sdetweil

@lmhmm great, what device is MagicMirror running on?

are you opening the page on the same system?
over the network? (how fast, wifi, or wired)

I opened this issue
https://github.com/sdetweil/MMM-Config/issues/64

lmhmm

@sdetweil Okay so I’ve now completely reset my MM with the latest node and npm. Yes MMM-Config works as advertised thank you.

sdetweil

@lmhmm thanks for the feedback. I see the delay in loading the list on installer.
don’t have solution yet, the list of modules is quite long (over 1200)