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  • C Offline
    cowboysdude Module Developer
    last edited by Oct 11, 2016, 10:50 PM

    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 Oct 12, 2016, 2:56 PM

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

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      • K Offline
        KirAsh4 Moderator
        last edited by Oct 12, 2016, 6:43 PM

        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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          Jopyth Moderator @KirAsh4
          last edited by Oct 12, 2016, 6:55 PM

          @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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            KirAsh4 Moderator
            last edited by Oct 12, 2016, 7:07 PM

            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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              cowboysdude Module Developer
              last edited by Oct 13, 2016, 12:38 AM

              After I get back from my 5 day vacation :)

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                KirAsh4 Moderator @cowboysdude
                last edited by Oct 13, 2016, 5:59 PM

                @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 Oct 13, 2016, 9:41 PM

                  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 Oct 13, 2016, 9:43 PM

                    Could that be related to the npm install issue?

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                    • J Offline
                      jamlid
                      last edited by Oct 15, 2016, 9:23 PM

                      It looks like I’m having the same problem. Trying to manually install on a Pi 1…

                      33914 error electron-prebuilt@1.4.3 postinstall: node install.js
                      33914 error Exit status 1
                      33915 error Failed at the electron-prebuilt@1.4.3 postinstall script.
                      33915 error This is most likely a problem with the electron-prebuilt package,
                      33915 error not with npm itself.
                      33915 error Tell the author that this fails on your system:
                      33915 error node install.js
                      33915 error You can get their info via:
                      33915 error npm owner ls electron-prebuilt
                      33915 error There is likely additional logging output above.
                      33916 error System Linux 4.4.21+
                      33917 error command “/usr/bin/nodejs” “/usr/bin/npm” “install”
                      33918 error cwd /home/pi/MagicMirror
                      33919 error node -v v0.10.29
                      33920 error npm -v 1.4.21
                      33921 error code ELIFECYCLE

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