Error on npm install

paddyhughes

I just installed a module and it asked me to update NPM think i did it in the root directory not MagicMirror one can be sure.

This is what worked for me
sudo npm i -g npm

rmeskill

@paddyhughes said in Error on npm install:

I just installed a module and it asked me to update NPM think i did it in the root directory not MagicMirror one can be sure.
This is what worked for me
sudo npm i -g npm

sudo npm i -g npm didn’t work for me, got this error:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo npm i -g npm
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js:85
      let notifier = require('update-notifier')({pkg})
      ^^^

SyntaxError: Block-scoped declarations (let, const, function, class) not yet supported outside strict mode
    at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:414:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:442:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:311:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:467:10)
    at startup (node.js:134:18)
    at node.js:961:3

Trying just with npm i -g npm instead…

rmeskill

@rmeskill said in Error on npm install:

Trying just with npm i -g npm instead…

Did give me a positive output:

Trying just with npm i -g npm instead…

Trying npm install again…

paddyhughes

@rmeskill try do it in the MagicMirror folder
sudo npm i -g npm

sdetweil

@paddyhughes -g means global, not mm specific.

rmeskill

@paddyhughes said in Error on npm install:

@rmeskill try do it in the MagicMirror folder
sudo npm i -g npm

Sudo still doesn’t work, but I tried it again just ‘npm i -g npm’ in the MagicMirror folder. Now I’m trying npm install again in the MagicMirror folder again, so I guess we’ll see, but it looks like it’s stuck at the same point as last time

sdetweil

@rmeskill looks like node is also downlevel

rmeskill

@sdetweil said in Error on npm install:

@rmeskill looks like node is also downlevel

Do you mean I should upgrade it? this isn’t enough:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ node -v
v11.6.0

sdetweil

@rmeskill that is a surprise

rmeskill

Now I’m trying to remove npm and nodejs to start again, but even after I’ve run apt-get remove npm nodejs I still get this:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ which npm
/home/pi/.nvm/versions/node/v11.6.0/bin/npm
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ which node
/home/pi/.nvm/versions/node/v11.6.0/bin/node

sdetweil

@rmeskill said in Error on npm install:

.nvm/

looks like node version manager (nvm) was used to install these…

you could temporarily remove those folders from the PATH environment variable.

or search for remove nvm… and found

No, all you need to do is remove $NVM_DIR (~/.nvm is the default), and the relevant 2 lines in your profile file (but you also can leave those behind, since they’re guarded by a file existence check).

rmeskill

Seems my reply to this got lost…

Got this working! Removed the .nvm directory, removed the symlinks, shutdown pm2 and re-ran the installation script and it all went in fine!

sudo rm -rf ~/.nvm
sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/node
sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/nvm
pm2 stop mm
sudo rm -rf ~/MagicMirror
bash -c "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/master/installers/raspberry.sh)"

I got an error on npm not being the right version, so upgraded that:

sudo npm i -g npm

(Note sudo is working now, which it wasn’t before) And now my node and npm versions look good and pm2 is running MagicMirror again!

pi@raspberrypi:/ $ node -v
v9.11.2
pi@raspberrypi:/ $ npm -v
6.5.0

Thanks everyone for the help!