Installing on a Pi Zero

[andyc7687]

@big11 this goes to my forked repo. Are you booting through to the desktop or to the console?

[Big11]

@andyc7687

so since yesterday i installed many times from Scratch but without success……

With your script i ran into Troubles with a lot of Errors…

missing dependencies….

so i suggest to do more steps after “sudo apt INSTALL --fix-missing” -> “apt UPGRADE --fix-missing” does not work…

sudo dpkg –configure -a. and.
sudo apt install -f.

at npm install a lot of Warnings e.g.

npm WARN grunt-stylelint@0.10.1 requires a peer of stylelint@^9.0.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN acorn-jsx@5.0.1 requires a peer of acorn@^6.0.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.

added 921 packages from 1366 contributors and audited 2466 packages in 859.404s
found 8 vulnerabilities (7 low, 1 high)
  run `npm audit fix` to fix them, or `npm audit` for details
Errors while installing dependencies! (source command: npmc@latest install)

+ stylelint@9.9.0
added 156 packages from 107 contributors, removed 32 packages, updated 99 packages, moved 6 packages and audited 4452 packages in 370.707s
found 4 vulnerabilities (3 low, 1 high)
  run `npm audit fix` to fix them, or `npm audit` for details
Errors while installing dependencies! (source command: pm install stylelint@latest)

pi@magicpi:~ $   run `npm audit fix` to fix them, or `npm audit` for details
npm ERR! code EAUDITNOPJSON
npm ERR! audit No package.json found: Cannot audit a project without a package.json

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2019-01-09T07_05_26_138Z-debug.log
npm ERR! code EAUDITNOPJSON
npm ERR! audit No package.json found: Cannot audit a project without a package.json

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2019-01-09T07_05_35_497Z-debug.log
-bash: run: Kommando nicht gefunden.
pi@magicpi:~ $ Errors while installing dependencies! (source command: pm install stylelint@latest)
-bash: Syntaxfehler beim unerwarteten Wort `('

i could fix this with

"npm audit fix" or "npm audit fix --force" in directory MagicMirror

and then i figured out autostart with PM2 as described in MM-Wiki but…

it won’t start …

as done in the guide i created a mm.sh script und configured this for autostart with pm2

at next start Nothing happens to start MagicMirror localy

a “pm2 logs mm”

Shows a loop of “sh run-start.sh”

|mm       | > magicmirror@2.6.0 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
0|mm       | > sh run-start.sh
0|mm       |
0|mm       |
0|mm       | > magicmirror@2.6.0 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
0|mm       | > sh run-start.sh
0|mm       |
0|mm       |
0|mm       | > magicmirror@2.6.0 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
0|mm       | > sh run-start.sh
0|mm       |
0|mm       |
0|mm       | > magicmirror@2.6.0 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
0|mm       | > sh run-start.sh

a cat to run-start.sh Shows

pi@magicpi:~/MagicMirror $ cat run-start.sh
if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ]; then #If not set DISPLAY is SSH remote or tty
        export DISPLAY=:0 # Set by default display
fi
electron js/electron.js $1

!!!
but electron.js isn’t installed

trying manually install this with

sudo npm install electron -g

ended again in Error-Messages

Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/electron/.electron'
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! electron@4.0.1 postinstall: `node install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the electron@4.0.1 postinstall 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!     /root/.npm/_logs/2019-01-09T09_13_51_893Z-debug.log

so… now i’m giving up for These days….

does anybody know where my Failure is ??

Thank you

[andyc7687]

@big11 I did a test install today, so I’m really not sure what you are doing.

You will notice that the missing dependencies are installed in subsequent steps (e.g. there’s a problem with style lint and acorn. This is then fixed (see where it says + stylelint@9.9.0 and + acorn lower down in your warnings).

This installation is completely different from the MM-Wiki. It does not use sh run-start.sh at all. Therefore there may well be problems.

Can I ask, are you doing your installation over SSH/Telnet? or on the Pi itself? because you keep mentioning ‘locally’ and I just want to make sure I know what you mean by that.

Edit: Also, don’t use npm install in sudo; it should be run as the normal user

[Big11]

@andyc7687

as for your Question

i’m installing over SSH but start it then directly on the Pi0…

i will i try a new Installation by now…

normally i don’t run “npm install” as root…
don’t know if i wrote so…

[Big11]

@big11

thats my “achievment” from last night…

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd MagicMirror/
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm start

> magicmirror@2.6.0 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
> sh run-start.sh

run-start.sh: 4: run-start.sh: electron: not found
npm ERR! file sh
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall spawn
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.6.0 start: `sh run-start.sh`
npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.6.0 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!     /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2019-01-10T07_11_11_053Z-debug.log
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $

[12wsx]

finally full success!!:)
@big11 install directly from raspberry terminal not via ssh.
After few fresh installation and hundreds errors last time tried install using

bash -c "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ac2799/MagicMirror/master/installers/raspberry.sh)"

from raspberrypi terminal.There were some errors but finally worked.
if you want, I can make a image of my card and share it.

[Big11]

@12wsx

you made my day…

it works…

the first differences i encountered was the Installation of electron …
this i didn’t found at all the others…

and i thought before, that this will be the quest…

regarding to the warnings installing npm

you could fix that with “npm Audit fix” or “npm Audit fix --force”
as suggested…

i did this also, so maybe this could be an error too…

and if it works but this warnings, who cares…. :-)

have a great day…
thank you

[Wordonroad]

Awesome write up. Super helpful!

[qu1que]

Thank you very much for this work! The tutorial works perfectly. I just installed it in a rpi zero W. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to install it on this SBC.

[cdh1001]

Many thanks Andrew - worked well for me (other than first step: connecting to wifi with WPA2 needed some minor tweaks.)