@devinhedge said in Clean installation... fails left and right: Install Node.js from source The Nodesource install scripts will save you some time/steps: curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | bash - apt-get install -y nodejs It looks like everything installed correctly. As has been said before: @michmich said in Clean installation... fails left and right: As others have said, most of your problems are because you use Raspbian Lite. The electron-quick-start app tries to install electron v4.0, which as I said above, does not work on the latest version of Raspbian–you need to use v3.0.13 (npm i electron@3.0.13). Also, are you trying to run electron from the Pi’s desktop or SSH? If you’re running it from SSH you need to run it with DISPLAY=:0 npm start

Stacy Webb changed the script yesterday to address this issue. I’ve tested it with a clean install, but still it didn’t work. I have to try and manually install and see where there’s a problem. Only my knowledge of Linux is not that good at this point in time.