Complete Walkthrough - Install MagicMirror on a PC - Windows 7/10

sdetweil

@mounir where do u see that?

u are installing in cmd terminal window, right?
not PowerShell

mounir

@mounir yes in cmd

sdetweil

@mounir is this windows 10, or 11?

never seen this. installed on windows 11 last week to test

are u running any other web server apps?

mounir

@sdetweil i’m in windows 11 but there is no webserver running

sdetweil

@mounir read this
https://superuser.com/questions/1437780/how-to-fix-listen-eacces-permission-denied-on-any-port/1568476

u can change the port in MagicMirror\config\config.js

mounir

@sdetweil thank you it works when i’m changing the port in the config.js

sdetweil

Note for v ersion 2.18 a little twist
do

 npm install --only=prod

otherwise the developer dependencies will be installed too, and fail, causing electron not to be installed.

then
the additional steps are the same

cd fonts
npm install
cd ..\vendor
npm install
cd ..

and edit package.json to change the start line as shown in prior posts

new info for change of start line in package.json, with node 16
should be like this (earlier worked with node 14,)

"start": "node_modules\\.bin\\electron js\\electron.js",

Pearce

I went through the installation guide and got this error:

$ npm start

magicmirror@2.18.0 start

DISPLAY=“${DISPLAY:=:0}” ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js

‘DISPLAY’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

sdetweil

@pearce further up
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/4089/complete-walkthrough-install-magicmirror-on-a-pc-windows-7-10/141?_=1638708846564

N6NG

Hi all… Looks like a lot of people are trying this… I’m going for it myself but ran into this problem…
When I try to do the
git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror.git

I get the following error.

N6NG@Main-Computer-in-Ham-Shack MINGW64 /
$ git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror.git
fatal: could not create work tree dir ‘MagicMirror’: Permission denied
Anyone figured out how to change permissions… sudo isn’t recognized yet.
Dennis