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

swvalenti

@sdetweil any ideas on this one just showed up…It asked me that npm needed major update now it doesn’t work

C:\Users\Svale\MagicMirror>npm start

> magicmirror@2.18.0 start
> ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js

'.' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\Svale\MagicMirror>

sdetweil

@swvalenti said in Complete Walkthrough - Install MagicMirror on a PC - Windows 7/10:

./node_modules

yes, you cannot have the ./ in front… windows doesn’t understand that …

read the instructions again

sdetweil

@swvalenti you shouldn’t update things unless u know why you are doing it…

we test with certain runtimes and release every 3 months

swvalenti

@sdetweil said in Complete Walkthrough - Install MagicMirror on a PC - Windows 7/10:

@swvalenti said in Complete Walkthrough - Install MagicMirror on a PC - Windows 7/10:

./node_modules

yes, you cannot have the ./ in front… windows doesn’t understand that …

read the instructions again

now I get this error…will never update again lesson learned

C:\Users\Svale\MagicMirror>npm start

> magicmirror@2.18.0 start C:\Users\Svale\MagicMirror
> electron js/electron.js

'electron' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.18.0 start: `electron js/electron.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.18.0 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\Svale\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2022-03-21T21_48_27_176Z-debug.log

C:\Users\Svale\MagicMirror>

sdetweil

@swvalenti come on

remove the display and the leading

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

swvalenti

@sdetweil said in Complete Walkthrough - Install MagicMirror on a PC - Windows 7/10:

“start”:“node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js”,

I did that sam still doesn’t work sorry to be a bother

sdetweil

@swvalenti and what is the message?

what npm version are u running?

npm -v

swvalenti

@sdetweil said in Complete Walkthrough - Install MagicMirror on a PC - Windows 7/10:

@swvalenti and what is the message?

what npm version are u running?

npm -v

this is what i get and below is version

C:\Users\Svale\MagicMirror>npm start

> magicmirror@2.18.0 start C:\Users\Svale\MagicMirror
> electron js\electron.js

'electron' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.18.0 start: `electron js\electron.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.18.0 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\Svale\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2022-03-21T22_10_23_329Z-debug.log

C:\Users\Svale\MagicMirror>npm -v
6.14.0

C:\Users\Svale\MagicMirror>

sdetweil

@swvalenti said in Complete Walkthrough - Install MagicMirror on a PC - Windows 7/10:

electron js\electron.js

u still have it wrong

“node_modules/.bin/electron electron.js”

electron is not in the path, so you have to give it the path to the executable

once again different versions of node and npm require slightly different solutions…
this is not an MM problem… they keep messing it up (in my opinion)

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

swvalenti

@sdetweil oh well I give up I tried all the steps, thanks for all the help and patience