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    • J Offline
      joey12725
      last edited by

      When I installed MM2 it gave me an error saying “unable to install dependencies!” Then when I ran NPM install it gave me a list of errors.

      npm WARN deprecated electron-prebuilt@1.4.3: electron-prebuilt has been renamed to electron. For more details, see http://electron.atom.io/blog/2016/08/16/npm-install-electron
      npm ERR! Linux 4.1.19-v7+
      npm ERR! argv “/usr/local/bin/node” “/usr/local/bin/npm” “install”
      npm ERR! node v4.0.0
      npm ERR! npm v3.10.8
      npm ERR! file /home/pi/.npm/electron-download/3.0.1/package/package.json
      npm ERR! code EJSONPARSE

      npm ERR! Failed to parse json
      npm ERR! No data, empty input at 1:1
      npm ERR!
      npm ERR! ^
      npm ERR! File: /home/pi/.npm/electron-download/3.0.1/package/package.json
      npm ERR! Failed to parse package.json data.
      npm ERR! package.json must be actual JSON, not just JavaScript.
      npm ERR!
      npm ERR! This is not a bug in npm.
      npm ERR! Tell the package author to fix their package.json file. JSON.parse

      npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
      npm ERR! /home/pi/MagicMirror/npm-debug.log

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      • cowboysdudeC Offline
        cowboysdude Module Developer
        last edited by

        Interesting… was trying to install it on my windows computer to test some modules and was getting the same error… no idea…

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        • J Offline
          joey12725
          last edited by

          Weird, I cannot find a solution to this, I have updated NPM and NodeJS, but not of any use

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          • KirAsh4K Offline
            KirAsh4 Moderator
            last edited by

            Seems to be specific to Electron having been updated (as the WARNing implies.) Feel free to direct any flogging that way …

            A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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            • J Offline
              Jopyth Moderator @KirAsh4
              last edited by

              @KirAsh4 Can we find out, which version is compatible, and set that? I am experiencing a similar error after chaging to the development branch, but maybe it is unrelated to this specific problem. But I do not know which version of electron I had previously.

              Helpful sticky: How to troubleshoot

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              • KirAsh4K Offline
                KirAsh4 Moderator
                last edited by

                Look in your ~pi/.electron folder. There should be old(er) versions downloaded there. Mine lists two:

                pi@magicmirror:~/.electron $ ls -al
                total 67944
                drwxr-xr-x  2 pi pi     4096 May 24 23:54 ./
                drwxr-xr-x 24 pi pi     4096 Oct 10 02:09 ../
                -rw-r--r--  1 pi pi 34490964 May  2 20:52 electron-v0.37.8-linux-arm.zip
                -rw-r--r--  1 pi pi 35072121 May 24 23:54 electron-v1.1.2-linux-arm.zip
                

                As of right now, my mirror is running v1.1.2 - I haven’t updated in about a week. How you go about (re)installing that one however … I’ll leave that as an exercise for the user. :) Mainly because right now I don’t have the time to figure it out. One possible place to start is also looking in the .npm folder for the older stuff:

                pi@magicmirror:~ $ ls -l .npm/electron-prebuilt
                .npm/electron-prebuilt:
                total 32
                drwxr-xr-x   4 pi pi  4096 May 24 23:50 ./
                drwxr-xr-x 509 pi pi 20480 Jul  1 02:40 ../
                drwxr-xr-x   3 pi pi  4096 May  2 20:50 0.37.8/
                drwxr-xr-x   3 pi pi  4096 May 24 23:50 1.1.2/
                

                A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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                • cowboysdudeC Offline
                  cowboysdude Module Developer
                  last edited by

                  After I get back from my 5 day vacation :)

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                  • KirAsh4K Offline
                    KirAsh4 Moderator @cowboysdude
                    last edited by

                    @cowboysdude, I don’t know who gave you permission to take a vacation, but they need to be fired. First thing you will need to do when you return.

                    A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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                    • J Offline
                      joey12725
                      last edited by

                      I re-installed magic mirror and got this above the unable to install dependencies error

                      npm WARN deprecated electron-prebuilt@1.4.3: electron-prebuilt has been renamed to electron. For more details, see http://electron.atom.io/blog/2016/08/16/npm-install-electron
                      npm ERR! Linux 4.1.19-v7+
                      npm ERR! argv “/usr/local/bin/node” “/usr/local/bin/npm” “install”
                      npm ERR! node v4.0.0
                      npm ERR! npm v3.10.8
                      npm ERR! file /home/pi/.npm/extract-zip/1.5.0/package/package.json
                      npm ERR! code EJSONPARSE

                      npm ERR! Failed to parse json
                      npm ERR! No data, empty input at 1:1
                      npm ERR!
                      npm ERR! ^
                      npm ERR! File: /home/pi/.npm/extract-zip/1.5.0/package/package.json
                      npm ERR! Failed to parse package.json data.
                      npm ERR! package.json must be actual JSON, not just JavaScript.
                      npm ERR!
                      npm ERR! This is not a bug in npm.
                      npm ERR! Tell the package author to fix their package.json file. JSON.parse

                      npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
                      npm ERR! /home/pi/MagicMirror/npm-debug.log
                      Unable to install dependencies!

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                      • J Offline
                        joey12725
                        last edited by

                        Could that be related to the npm install issue?

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