Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Can't get MM to start, says it can't find electron, then electron won't start
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@jmartin1009 magigcmirror… u are installing the dependencies for that app
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@sdetweil still says
electron: not found
Could this be because it says that node_modules is missing? I did both npm install and npm install electron@3.0.10 in MagicMirror.
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@jmartin1009 npm install from inside the magicmirror folder should have created node_modules (thats its (npm) job)
erase MagicMirror folder,
download again
and then cd MagicMirror and then npm install -
@sdetweil another error, it says
npm ERR! file /home/pi/MagicMirror/package.json npm ERR! code EJSONPARSE npm ERR! JSON.parse Failed to parse json npm ERR! JSON.parse Unexpected end of JSON input while parsing near ' ' npm ERR! JSON.parse Failed to parse package. json data. npm ERR! JSON.parse package.json must be actual JSON, not just JavaScript.
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@jmartin1009 did u download the MagicMirror folder over again?
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@sdetweil yes I deleted the contents of the old folder and changed the name and redownloaded MagicMirror
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@jmartin1009 ok, from the /home/pi folder lets start again
cd ~ rm -rf whatever_the_old_folder_name_is rm -rf MagicMirror git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror.git cd MagicMirror npm install
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@sdetweil okay I did all of that and it said it cloned and everthing, and then it rebooted during the install, now what? lol
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@jmartin1009 should not reboot
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@sdetweil oh it reboots everytime I install magicmirror, how do I prevent this? because it always reboots like 1/3 of the way through the progress bar and it always did it so I thought it was normal lol can I stop this? I have a pi 3+ btw