@bhepler Thank you for your clear and precise instruction, I have now got it working, it did show me an error at the end of the installation but it still seems to work:

npm WARN grunt-stylelint@0.8.0 requires a peer of stylelint@^7.8.0 but none was installed.
npm WARN stylelint-config-standard@16.0.0 requires a peer of stylelint@^7.8.0 but none was installed.
Dependencies installation Done!
Check plymouth installation ...
Splashscreen: Checking themes directory.
Splashscreen: Create theme directory if not exists.
Splashscreen: Theme copied successfully.
Splashscreen: Changed theme to MagicMirror successfully.
bash: line 153: syntax error near unexpected token `then'
bash: line 153: `then'

again thank you for taking the time from your day to help, much appreciated.

Thank you let me try that.

I shall blank my me card and start fresh

Forgive me for not getting this but should I let the Raspian install and boot into the desktop as a standard fresh install does or should I turn of the auto login?

If I do leave the desktop running do I run the main install line for MM2 from the terminal window launched from the desktop or should I SSH into the Pi from another computer to start the install command line running?

So if I get this right, once I get it working the Pi boots into Pixel then the MM2 will auto run?

Very new to this sorry :)

@Desertswing No idea what that did but it worked, just need to make it show the weather as that seems to have gone away

Just spent a couple of hours trying to get this running on a Pizero w then give up so moved to Pi 3

The Pi 3 get a bit closer but fails.

Downloaded the latest Raspbian with Pixel put on fresh card
The auto installation starts but give me an error
bash: line 48: unexpected EOF while looking for matching "

Then stop, tried it s few time, stops same place everytime.

Can this work OK with Pixel release