@IDCreate said in Copy and paste of text to nano config/config.js:

you certainly deserve a drink. :-)

Good idea! Sleep well, mate

check file by:

sudo nano ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart

if it includes:

@xscreensaver -no-splash

then just comment it by adding #

#@xscreensaver -no-splash

if it doesn’t work install xscreensaver:

sudo apt-get install xscreensaver

@IDCreate

You didn’t read what I wrote?

Far left menu says File, click it and click Quit, or Exit (depending on version

Hi lavolp,

Thanks very much for your reply. I appreciate you replying to me so quickly, I’m very new to all of this and I’ve never used code before. This is all a big learning curve, I’m also dyslexic which does not help.

I’ve seen loads of videos and read loads of information on setting up the magic mirror, but none of then make it clear. They either use code that they expect people to know already and also use lots of different terms that mean nothing to me. I wish there was a book or PDF available that told you every single step in an easy way to for people new to this like me that struggle to take things. I really like to learn but unfortunately being dyslexic, it does take me a little longer to learn and take on board what things mean. You have been a great help so far. I wish there was a course on the Raspberry Pi for people with learning disability’s and dyslexia that you could go on, that would teach you all these things.

The videos are great but unfortunately when you come up against a problem, there’s no way of moving forward. So thank goodness for this website/forum.

Please explain what does sudo mean? What are you running on your Raspberry Pi?

So I typed in what you said and I got this:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt --fix-broken install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following additional packages will be installed: apt-utils The following packages will be upgraded: apt-utils 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 106 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 392 kB of archives. After this operation, 1,024 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian stretch/main armhf apt-utils armhf 1.4.8 [392 kB] Fetched 392 kB in 0s (1,976 kB/s) Reading changelogs... Done (Reading database ... 122683 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../apt-utils_1.4.8_armhf.deb ... Unpacking apt-utils (1.4.8) over (1.4.7) ... Setting up perl-modules-5.24 (5.24.1-3+deb9u2) ... Setting up libapt-inst2.0:armhf (1.4.8) ... Setting up libperl5.24:armhf (5.24.1-3+deb9u2) ... Setting up apt-utils (1.4.8) ... Setting up perl (5.24.1-3+deb9u2) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-11+deb9u1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ... pi@raspberrypi:~ $ bash -c "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/master/installers/raspberry.sh)"

I then tried entering the install again and got this

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ bash -c "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/master/installers/raspberry.sh)" $$\ $$\ $$\ $$\ $$\ $$\ $$$$$$\ $$$\ $$$ | \__| $$$\ $$$ |\__| $$ __$$\ $$$$\ $$$$ | $$$$$$\ $$$$$$\ $$\ $$$$$$$\ $$$$\ $$$$ |$$\ $$$$$$\ $$$$$$\ $$$$$$\ $$$$$$\ \__/ $$ | $$\$$\$$ $$ | \____$$\ $$ __$$\ $$ |$$ _____|$$\$$\$$ $$ |$$ |$$ __$$\ $$ __$$\ $$ __$$\ $$ __$$\ $$$$$$ | $$ \$$$ $$ | $$$$$$$ |$$ / $$ |$$ |$$ / $$ \$$$ $$ |$$ |$$ | \__|$$ | \__|$$ / $$ |$$ | \__|$$ ____/ $$ |\$ /$$ |$$ __$$ |$$ | $$ |$$ |$$ | $$ |\$ /$$ |$$ |$$ | $$ | $$ | $$ |$$ | $$ | $$ | \_/ $$ |\$$$$$$$ |\$$$$$$$ |$$ |\$$$$$$$\ $$ | \_/ $$ |$$ |$$ | $$ | \$$$$$$ |$$ | $$$$$$$$\ \__| \__| \_______| \____$$ |\__| \_______|\__| \__|\__|\__| \__| \______/ \__| \________| $$\ $$ | \$$$$$$ | \______/ Updating packages ... Hit:1 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian stretch InRelease Hit:2 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian stretch InRelease Reading package lists... Done Installing helper tools ... Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done build-essential is already the newest version (12.3). unzip is already the newest version (6.0-21). The following additional packages will be installed: libcurl3 Suggested packages: git-daemon-run | git-daemon-sysvinit git-doc git-el git-email git-gui gitk gitweb git-arch git-cvs git-mediawiki git-svn The following packages will be upgraded: curl git libcurl3 wget 4 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 102 not upgraded. Need to get 4,629 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian stretch/main armhf git armhf 1:2.11.0-3+deb9u2 [3,380 kB] Get:2 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian stretch/main armhf wget armhf 1.18-5+deb9u1 [768 kB] Get:3 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian stretch/main armhf curl armhf 7.52.1-5+deb9u2 [220 kB] Get:4 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian stretch/main armhf libcurl3 armhf 7.52.1-5+deb9u2 [261 kB] Fetched 4,629 kB in 1s (3,226 kB/s) Reading changelogs... Done (Reading database ... 122683 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../git_1%3a2.11.0-3+deb9u2_armhf.deb ... Unpacking git (1:2.11.0-3+deb9u2) over (1:2.11.0-3) ... Preparing to unpack .../wget_1.18-5+deb9u1_armhf.deb ... Unpacking wget (1.18-5+deb9u1) over (1.18-5) ... Preparing to unpack .../curl_7.52.1-5+deb9u2_armhf.deb ... Unpacking curl (7.52.1-5+deb9u2) over (7.52.1-5) ... Preparing to unpack .../libcurl3_7.52.1-5+deb9u2_armhf.deb ... Unpacking libcurl3:armhf (7.52.1-5+deb9u2) over (7.52.1-5) ... Setting up libcurl3:armhf (7.52.1-5+deb9u2) ... Processing triggers for install-info (6.3.0.dfsg.1-1+b1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-11+deb9u1) ... Setting up wget (1.18-5+deb9u1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ... Setting up git (1:2.11.0-3+deb9u2) ... Setting up curl (7.52.1-5+deb9u2) ... Check current Node installation ... Node currently installed. Checking version number. Minimum Node version: v5.1.0 Installed Node version: v4.8.2 Node should be upgraded. Installing Node.js ... ## Installing the NodeSource Node.js v6.x repo... ## Populating apt-get cache... + apt-get update Hit:1 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian stretch InRelease Hit:2 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian stretch InRelease Reading package lists... Done ## Confirming "stretch" is supported... + curl -sLf -o /dev/null 'https://deb.nodesource.com/node_6.x/dists/stretch/Release' ## Adding the NodeSource signing key to your keyring... + curl -s https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource.gpg.key | apt-key add - OK ## Creating apt sources list file for the NodeSource Node.js v6.x repo... + echo 'deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_6.x stretch main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list + echo 'deb-src https://deb.nodesource.com/node_6.x stretch main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list ## Running `apt-get update` for you... + apt-get update Hit:1 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian stretch InRelease Hit:2 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian stretch InRelease Get:3 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_6.x stretch InRelease [4,647 B] Get:4 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_6.x stretch/main Sources [765 B] Get:5 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_6.x stretch/main armhf Packages [1,006 B] Fetched 6,418 B in 1s (4,083 B/s) Reading package lists... Done ## Run `apt-get install nodejs` (as root) to install Node.js v6.x and npm Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: libuv1 Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it. The following packages will be REMOVED: nodejs-legacy nodered The following packages will be upgraded: nodejs 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 102 not upgraded. Need to get 8,764 kB of archives. After this operation, 27.9 MB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_6.x stretch/main armhf nodejs armhf 6.11.5-1nodesource1 [8,764 kB] Fetched 8,764 kB in 2s (3,117 kB/s) apt-listchanges: Reading changelogs... (Reading database ... 122683 files and directories currently installed.) Removing nodered (0.17.4) ... Removing nodejs-legacy (4.8.2~dfsg-1) ... (Reading database ... 115794 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../nodejs_6.11.5-1nodesource1_armhf.deb ... Unpacking nodejs (6.11.5-1nodesource1) over (4.8.2~dfsg-1) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1) ... Setting up nodejs (6.11.5-1nodesource1) ... Processing triggers for gnome-icon-theme (3.12.0-2) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-9) ... Node.js installation Done! It seems like MagicMirror is already installed. To prevent overwriting, the installer will be aborted. Please rename the ~/MagicMirror folder and try again. If you want to upgrade your installation run git pull from the ~/MagicMirror directory. pi@raspberrypi:~ $

I did do a few updates as suggested on the video

sudo apt-get update

&

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

But the update you told me to do first below I just tried and it went on for ages, what is the difference between all these updates? What are the main updates to do regularly?

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

I’m not sure what it all means it says it’s installed by how do I start it? I just need a step by step guide from setting up the raspberry pi from scratch to how to install MagicMirror2

What is the difference between Raspbian Stretch and jessie ?

I know it’s asking a lot but if there’s anyone out there will to do this for somebody less competent so they can learn I would be grateful.

Just please reply in your own time, I’m just great full that someone is happy to help. I just want a better understanding of how it all works so I can make sense of it all in an easy way.

Many Thanks
IDCreate