Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
installing MagicMirror on my Raspberry Pi 0 w2
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The log was deleted during the SD card formatting process. When I tried again with a clean Raspberry Pi, it wouldn’t reboot and displayed the error “Could not install dependencies!” I’ll send you the log.
git is already the newest version (1:2.47.3-0+deb13u1).
build-essential is already the newest version (12.12).
unzip is already the newest version (6.0-29).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
this should be a raspberry pi 02w
swap control file /etc/dphys-swapfile doesn’t exist
installed node version is v22.18.0
installing on trixie
installed node version = v22.18.0
^[[0mNo npm engines section specified in package.json, using default=V10.9.3 …^[[0m
^[[96mCheck current Node installation …^[[0m
^[[0mNode currently installed. Checking version number.
^[[0mMinimum Node version: ^[[1mv22.18.0^[[0m
^[[0mInstalled Node version: ^[[1mv22.18.0^[[0m
^[[92mNo Node.js upgrade necessary.^[[0m
^[[96mCheck current NPM installation …^[[0m
^[[0mNPM currently installed. Checking version number.
^[[0mMinimum npm version: ^[[1mV10.9.3^[[0m
^[[0mInstalled npm version: ^[[1mV10.9.3^[[0m
^[[92mNo npm upgrade necessary.^[[0m
^[[96mCloning MagicMirror …^[[0m
^[[92mCloning MagicMirror Done!^[[0m
^[[96mInstalling dependencies …^[[0m^[[91mUnable to install dependencies! ^[[0m
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yes
$cat /proc/device-tree/model
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W Rev 1.0
$uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 6.12.47+rpt-rpi-v8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.12.47-1+rpt1 (2025-09-16) aarch64 GNU/Linux
$cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux 13 \n \l
$cat /etc/release
PRETTY_NAME=“Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)”
NAME=“Debian GNU/Linux”
VERSION_ID=“13”
VERSION=“13 (trixie)”
VERSION_CODENAME=trixie
DEBIAN_VERSION_FULL=13.2
ID=debian
HOME_URL=“https://www.debian.org/”
SUPPORT_URL=“https://www.debian.org/support”
BUG_REPORT_URL=“https://bugs.debian.org/”
$getconf LONG_BIT
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@Y_Garden interesting. I thought I pushed a fix for this a couple weeks ago
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When I deleted the duplicated MagicMirror and ran the script again, the Raspberry Pi rebooted.
install starting - Thu Nov 20 05:12:44 GMT 2025
installing on aarch64 processor system
the os is PRETTY_NAME=“Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)” NAME=“Debian GNU/Linux” VERSION_ID=“13” VERSION=“13 (trixie)” VERS>
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 416 204 101 3 166 211
Swap: 16799 129 16670
^[[96mUpdating packages …^[[0m
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates InRelease Hit:3 h>
apt-get update completed ok
Reading package lists…
Building dependency tree…
Reading state information…
pv is already the newest version (1.9.31-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
apt-get upgrade started
Reading package lists…
Building dependency tree…
Reading state information…
Calculating upgrade…
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
apt-get upgrade result =rc=0 Reading package lists…
Building dependency tree…
Reading state information…
Calculating upgrade…
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
^[[96mInstalling helper tools …^[[0m
Reading package lists…
Building dependency tree…
Reading state information…
curl is already the newest version (8.14.1-2+deb13u2).
wget is already the newest version (1.25.0-2).
git is already the newest version (1:2.47.3-0+deb13u1).
build-essential is already the newest version (12.12).
unzip is already the newest version (6.0-29).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
this should be a raspberry pi 02w
installed node version is v22.18.0
installing on trixie
installed node version = v22.18.0
^[[0mNo npm engines section specified in package.json, using default=V10.9.3 …^[[0m
^[[96mCheck current Node installation …^[[0m
^[[0mNode currently installed. Checking version number.
^[[0mMinimum Node version: ^[[1mv22.18.0^[[0m
^[[0mInstalled Node version: ^[[1mv22.18.0^[[0m
^[[92mNo Node.js upgrade necessary.^[[0m
^[[96mCheck current NPM installation …^[[0m
^[[0mNPM currently installed. Checking version number.
^[[0mMinimum npm version: ^[[1mV10.9.3^[[0m
^[[0mInstalled npm version: ^[[1mV10.9.3^[[0m
^[[92mNo npm upgrade necessary.^[[0m
^[[96mCloning MagicMirror …^[[0m
^[[92mCloning MagicMirror Done!^[[0m
^[[96mInstalling dependencies …^[[0mAh… if you solved it a few weeks ago, I’ll take a look at what other people have posted about the same problem.
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@Y_Garden I solved the installing correct version of node problem.
The reboot is happening inside npm, none of our code
Maybe a heat or power problem?
2w is short on ram, and trixie is bigger -
My experience trying to run MM on a system with 512MB of RAM is really poor. I found it pretty frustrating really.
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@emlowe yes, and the later os images are getting bigger and bigger
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@sdetweil I did find dietPi (https://dietpi.com/) to be the best distro for ease of installation, generally small, and still up to date - they keep up to date with Debian
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I’m not sure you will be able to do that easily. I’m trying to get a browser to load on a PI zero 2 W because Firefox and Chrome take up too much room to fit in the tiny 512MB Ram. Even running ssh and not using the GUI it is taking close to an hour to install Midori but that may be their server because other things have worked much faster.
Good Luck with your project.
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