Attempting To Update

[Ultimatum22]

Those files are auto created by the system, you can safely remove them.

rm package-lock.json

rm vendor/package-lock.json

In order to update git requires that no local files have changes, that is what the error message means.
Those files should really be in a .gitignore file but that is another issues. Removing the files should solve your issue.

[lavolp3]

@ultimatum22 said in Attempting To Update:

Those files should really be in a .gitignore file but that is another issues.

So why aren’t we putting them in? I still don’t really know what their purpose is.

[Ultimatum22]

@lavolp3 Because they are automatically generated files, you don’t include them in a repository.

package-lock.json is automatically generated for any operations where npm modifies either the node_modules tree, or package.json. It describes the exact tree that was generated, such that subsequent installs are able to generate identical trees, regardless of intermediate dependency updates.

https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package-lock.json

[lavolp3]

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[KumarTRD]

@ultimatum22 tried what you said but got the following…

Your help is appreciated; am I using the correct command to update my MagicMirror

[bhepler]

@kumartrd You just tried to remove the same file twice, that’s all. You’re almost there. Try:

cd ~/MagicMirror
rm package-lock.json

And while I have you here… please use the Markdown features of the board in the future when posting code and error messages. Thanks.

[justjim1220]

@kumartrd

you will also need to do this:

cd ~/MagicMirror/vendor
rm package-lock.json

[bhepler]

@justjim1220 He already got that one.

[karsten13]

The git pull command fails if files are locally changed, because the pull would override them.
With git diff you can see what has changed.

If you are not interested to save these local changes you can run git reset --hard. This will revert all changes and after this the git pull should work.

[KumarTRD]

@Ultimatum22 hey there went to do the most current update and ran into the same issue with the vendor/package-lock.json package so I ran the removal script as stated below and it worked and now my pi is updated… I remember you brought up that I should have that package in a gitignore file how do I move it over?