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

sdetweil

@airart did u try to install electron?

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm install electron@11.3.0

so we can see the error, if any

airart

@sdetweil yes

C:\Users\gizmo\MagicMirror>npm install  electron@11.3.0  --loglevel=verbose
npm verb cli [
npm verb cli   'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe',
npm verb cli   'C:\\Users\\gizmo\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js',
npm verb cli   'install',
npm verb cli   'electron@11.3.0',
npm verb cli   '--loglevel=verbose'
n................ecc

airart

@sdetweil i try to restore original package.js and this show me a new log…

0 verbose cli [
0 verbose cli   'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe',
0 verbose cli   'C:\\Users\\gizmo\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js',
0 verbose cli   'start'
0 verbose cli ]
1 info using npm@7.14.0
2 info using node@v14.17.0
3 timing npm:load:whichnode Completed in 8ms
4 timing config:load:defaults Completed in 10ms
5 timing config:load:file:C:\Users\gizmo\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\npmrc Completed in 15ms
6 timing config:load:builtin Completed in 15ms
7 timing config:load:cli Completed in 8ms
8 timing config:load:env Completed in 3ms
9 timing config:load:file:C:\Users\gizmo\MagicMirror\.npmrc Completed in 1ms
10 timing config:load:project Completed in 4ms
11 timing config:load:file:C:\Users\gizmo\.npmrc Completed in 1ms
12 timing config:load:user Completed in 1ms
13 timing config:load:file:C:\Users\gizmo\AppData\Roaming\npm\etc\npmrc Completed in 1ms
14 timing config:load:global Completed in 1ms
15 timing config:load:validate Completed in 1ms
16 timing config:load:credentials Completed in 5ms
17 timing config:load:setEnvs Completed in 4ms
18 timing config:load Completed in 53ms
19 timing npm:load:configload Completed in 54ms
20 timing npm:load:setTitle Completed in 1ms
21 timing npm:load:setupLog Completed in 13ms
22 timing npm:load:cleanupLog Completed in 14ms
23 timing npm:load:configScope Completed in 0ms
24 timing npm:load:projectScope Completed in 2ms
25 timing npm:load Completed in 96ms
26 timing config:load:flatten Completed in 15ms
27 timing command:run-script Completed in 3ms
28 timing command:start Completed in 57ms
29 verbose stack Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\gizmo\MagicMirror\package.json'
30 verbose cwd C:\Users\gizmo\MagicMirror
31 verbose Windows_NT 10.0.18362
32 verbose argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Users\\gizmo\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "start"
33 verbose node v14.17.0
34 verbose npm  v7.14.0
35 error code ENOENT
36 error syscall open
37 error path C:\Users\gizmo\MagicMirror/package.json
38 error errno -4058
39 error enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\gizmo\MagicMirror\package.json'
40 error enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
41 verbose exit -4058

airart

nothing to do, it doesn’t seem to find the electron file and folders

sdetweil

@airart i don’t understand, I installed on windows 10 without trouble… but it was npm v6.

I just installed and used npm 7.14…

I had to use the full path to electron

here is my package.json start line

"start": "/Users/sdetw/MagicMirror/node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js",

this is due to a change in npm… my prior instance will not start now without the full path

sdetweil

this is because npm 7.14 is trying to launch from the MagicMirror folder instead of the module folder…

airart

@sdetweil can i install npm v6 ?

sdetweil

@airart yes,

npm install -g npm@6.14.0

after this completes

cd MagicMirror
rd /s/q node_modules
npm install

airart

@sdetweil in which folder it should be installed

sdetweil

@airart -g means global