Can't install / Error with NPM / Electron not found

[mdhenriksen]

Hey guys,

(I’m using Linux 18.10, doing a manual install)

So I have installed MagicMirror before and had no trouble with it that I couldn’t fix. But I just tried installing it on another computer, and I keep getting this error now:

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

/home/magicmirror/new/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron: error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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/magicmirror/.npm/_logs/2019-01-02T15_23_49_977Z-debug.log

I have tried re-installing several times and tried older suggestions here on the forum. Might it be because of the new release? Any ideas?

[sdetweil]

@mdhenriksen said in Can't install / Error with NPM / Electron not found:

libgconf-2.so.4

a google search for ‘error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4’
see https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/1518

[mdhenriksen]

@sdetweil I’ve tried that. It just says the following:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libconf-2-4

[sdetweil]

note the missing g

libconf-2-4
should be
libgconf-2-4

[mdhenriksen]

@sdetweil said in Can't install / Error with NPM / Electron not found:

note the missing g

libconf-2-4
should be
libgconf-2-4

Hah! Sorry, such a dummy. Works now, thanks buddy!!

[sdetweil]

cool… can u mark your issue as solved