It's my first topic. I've seen similar topics on this forum but neither of them helped me.
I have a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ with homebridge installed for quite some time there. There's a supervisor that keeps it running in case of any issues.
Anyway, I wanted to add Node-Red to my setup so I've run the script:
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ bash <(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/node-red/linux-installers/master/deb/update-nodejs-and-nodered)
e[2 q
This script will remove versions of Node.js prior to version 7.x, and Node-RED and
if necessary replace them with Node.js 10.x LTS (dubnium) and the latest Node-RED from Npm.
It also moves any Node-RED nodes that are globally installed into your user
~/.node-red/node_modules directory, and adds them to your package.json, so that
you can manage them with the palette manager.
It also tries to run 'npm rebuild' to refresh any extra nodes you have installed
that may have a native binary component. While this normally works ok, you need
to check that it succeeds for your combination of installed nodes.
To do all this it runs commands as root - please satisfy yourself that this will
not damage your Pi, or otherwise compromise your configuration.
If in doubt please backup your SD card first.
Are you really sure you want to do this ? [y/N] ? y
Would you like to install the Pi-specific nodes ? [y/N] ? y
Running Node-RED install for user pi at /home/pi on raspbian
This can take 20-30 minutes on the slower Pi versions - please wait.
Stop Node-RED ✔
Remove old version of Node-RED ✔
Remove old version of Node.js -
Leave existing Node.js - Node v10.10.0 Npm 6.13.4
Clean npm cache -
Install Node-RED core ✔
Move global nodes to local ✔
Install extra Pi nodes ✔
Npm rebuild existing nodes -
Add shortcut commands ✔
Update systemd script ✔
Any errors will be logged to /var/log/nodered-install.log
All done.
You can now start Node-RED with the command node-red-start
or using the icon under Menu / Programming / Node-RED
Then point your browser to localhost:1880 or http://{your_pi_ip-address}:1880
Started Thu 28 May 10:36:41 UTC 2020 - Finished Thu 28 May 10:38:49 UTC 2020
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl enable nodered.service
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/nodered.service → /lib/systemd/system/nodered.service.
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ node-red-start
Node-RED is not yet fully installed
/usr/bin/node-red-start: line 91: update-nodejs-and-nodered: command not found
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ npm cache clear --force
npm WARN using --force I sure hope you know what you are doing.
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ node-red-start
Node-RED is not yet fully installed
/usr/bin/node-red-start: line 91: update-nodejs-and-nodered: command not found
As you can see - no success in running this thing even though it seems to install correctly.
I've checked the error log and find out that there were some issues during installation
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Started : Thu 28 May 10:36:41 UTC 2020
Running for user pi at /home/pi
Found global nodes: node-red-contrib-ibm-watson-iot
node-red-contrib-play-audio
node-red-node-ping
node-red-node-pi-sense-hat
node-red-node-random
node-red-node-serialport
node-red-node-smooth :
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libhttp-parser2.8 nodejs nodejs-doc
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
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Already have nodejs v10.10.0
Now install nodejs
Now install Node-RED
sudo: npm: command not found
Now create basic package.json for the user and move any global nodes
> @serialport/bindings@8.0.8 install /home/pi/.node-red/node_modules/@serialport/bindings
> prebuild-install --tag-prefix @serialport/bindings@ || node-gyp rebuild
prebuild-install WARN install No prebuilt binaries found (target=10.10.0 runtime=node arch=arm libc= platform=linux)
make: Entering directory '/home/pi/.node-red/node_modules/@serialport/bindings/build'
CXX(target) Release/obj.target/bindings/src/serialport.o
CXX(target) Release/obj.target/bindings/src/serialport_unix.o
CXX(target) Release/obj.target/bindings/src/poller.o
CXX(target) Release/obj.target/bindings/src/serialport_linux.o
SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/obj.target/bindings.node
COPY Release/bindings.node
make: Leaving directory '/home/pi/.node-red/node_modules/@serialport/bindings/build'
> node-red-node-pi-sense-hat@0.0.18 postinstall /home/pi/.node-red/node_modules/node-red-node-pi-sense-hat
> scripts/checklib.sh
Sense HAT python library is installed
> serialport@8.0.8 postinstall /home/pi/.node-red/node_modules/serialport
> node thank-you.js
e[96me[1mThank you for using serialport!e[96me[1m
e[0me[96mIf you rely on this package, please consider supporting our open collective:e[22me[39m
> e[94mhttps://opencollective.com/serialport/donatee[0m
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
npm WARN node-red-project@0.0.1 No repository field.
npm WARN node-red-project@0.0.1 No license field.
+ node-red-node-serialport@0.10.2
+ node-red-node-pi-sense-hat@0.0.18
+ node-red-node-random@0.1.4
+ node-red-node-smooth@0.1.2
+ node-red-node-ping@0.2.0
+ node-red-contrib-ibm-watson-iot@0.2.8
+ node-red-contrib-play-audio@2.5.0
added 156 packages from 104 contributors in 64.656s
3 packages are looking for funding
run `npm fund` for details
Installing extra nodes: node-red-node-pi-gpio node-red-node-random node-red-node-ping node-red-contrib-play-audio node-red-node-smooth node-red-node-serialport :
npm WARN node-red-project@0.0.1 No repository field.
npm WARN node-red-project@0.0.1 No license field.
+ node-red-node-random@0.1.4
+ node-red-contrib-play-audio@2.5.0
+ node-red-node-ping@0.2.0
+ node-red-node-smooth@0.1.2
+ node-red-node-serialport@0.10.2
+ node-red-node-pi-gpio@1.1.1
added 1 package from 1 contributor and updated 5 packages in 10.085s
2 packages are looking for funding
run `npm fund` for details
Now add the shortcut and start/stop/log scripts to the menu
Now add systemd script and configure it for pi
Now add launcher to top bar, add cpu temp example, make sure ping works
The user `pi' is already a member of `gpio'.
Finished : Thu 28 May 10:36:41 UTC 2020
Can you please spare some of your time and help me fix it? I don't have much experience in bash (maybe just a bit) and possibly there's a quick fix for my problem where I could spend hours sorting it.
I haven't tried before but I did it now and with no success. It's still happening and I can't reach the port in the browser so it seems that it's not running.
That is very odd, since in the terminal display it did say it had found it. The install script said that it was leaving the existing nodejs and npm installs, but it seems something is wrong with them so I suggest sudo apt remove nodejs npm
then run the script again. Then it should install them properly, hopefully.
Nvm ? That was never mentioned. The script doesn’t play nice with nvm. As nvm only does things in the shell environment it doesn’t work well with services and so on.
Did you install nvm as part of the homebridge install? I see that some tutorials do that. If you have used the ready made homebridge image and it already has nvm installed then that is worth knowing for the future. I haven't used nvm but google found this which seems fairly authoritative
I've rerun the script, but the result seems to be the same.
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ bash <(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/node-red/linux-installers/master/deb/update-nodejs-and-nodered)
e[2 q
This script will remove versions of Node.js prior to version 7.x, and Node-RED and
if necessary replace them with Node.js 12.x LTS (dubnium) and the latest Node-RED from Npm.
It also moves any Node-RED nodes that are globally installed into your user
~/.node-red/node_modules directory, and adds them to your package.json, so that
you can manage them with the palette manager.
It also tries to run 'npm rebuild' to refresh any extra nodes you have installed
that may have a native binary component. While this normally works ok, you need
to check that it succeeds for your combination of installed nodes.
To do all this it runs commands as root - please satisfy yourself that this will
not damage your Pi, or otherwise compromise your configuration.
If in doubt please backup your SD card first.
Are you really sure you want to do this ? [y/N] ? y
Would you like to install the Pi-specific nodes ? [y/N] ? y
Running Node-RED install for user pi at /home/pi on raspbian
This can take 20-30 minutes on the slower Pi versions - please wait.
Stop Node-RED ✔
Remove old version of Node-RED ✔
Remove old version of Node.js -
Leave existing Node.js - Node v10.10.0 Npm 6.14.5
Clean npm cache -
Install Node-RED core ✔
Move global nodes to local -
Install extra Pi nodes ✔
Npm rebuild existing nodes -
Add shortcut commands ✔
Update systemd script ✔
Any errors will be logged to /var/log/nodered-install.log
All done.
You can now start Node-RED with the command node-red-start
or using the icon under Menu / Programming / Node-RED
Then point your browser to localhost:1880 or http://{your_pi_ip-address}:1880
Started Mon 1 Jun 07:28:51 UTC 2020 - Finished Mon 1 Jun 07:29:28 UTC 2020
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ node-red-start
Node-RED is not yet fully installed
/usr/bin/node-red-start: line 91: update-nodejs-and-nodered: command not found
And here's the log:
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Started : Mon 1 Jun 07:28:51 UTC 2020
Running for user pi at /home/pi
Found global nodes: :
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Package 'nodered' is not installed, so not removed
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libhttp-parser2.8 nodejs-doc
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 100 not upgraded.
Already have nodejs v10.10.0
Now install nodejs
Now install Node-RED
sudo: npm: command not found
Now create basic package.json for the user and move any global nodes
Installing extra nodes: node-red-node-pi-gpio node-red-node-random node-red-node-ping node-red-contrib-play-audio node-red-node-smooth node-red-node-serialport :
npm WARN node-red-project@0.0.1 No repository field.
npm WARN node-red-project@0.0.1 No license field.
+ node-red-node-smooth@0.1.2
+ node-red-contrib-play-audio@2.5.0
+ node-red-node-pi-gpio@1.1.1
+ node-red-node-ping@0.2.0
+ node-red-node-random@0.1.4
+ node-red-node-serialport@0.10.2
updated 6 packages in 13.233s
Now add the shortcut and start/stop/log scripts to the menu
Now add systemd script and configure it for pi
Now add launcher to top bar, add cpu temp example, make sure ping works
The user `pi' is already a member of `gpio'.
Memory : 1.0G
Finished : Mon 1 Jun 07:28:51 UTC 2020
I've disabled nvm by commenting lines in .bashrc and run it again. Something new happens:
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ bash <(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/node-red/linux-installers/master/deb/update-nodejs-and-nodered)
e[2 q
This script will remove versions of Node.js prior to version 7.x, and Node-RED and
if necessary replace them with Node.js 12.x LTS (erbium) and the latest Node-RED from Npm.
It also moves any Node-RED nodes that are globally installed into your user
~/.node-red/node_modules directory, and adds them to your package.json, so that
you can manage them with the palette manager.
It also tries to run 'npm rebuild' to refresh any extra nodes you have installed
that may have a native binary component. While this normally works ok, you need
to check that it succeeds for your combination of installed nodes.
To do all this it runs commands as root - please satisfy yourself that this will
not damage your Pi, or otherwise compromise your configuration.
If in doubt please backup your SD card first.
Are you really sure you want to do this ? [y/N] ? y
Would you like to install the Pi-specific nodes ? [y/N] ? y
Running Node-RED install for user pi at /home/pi on raspbian
This can take 20-30 minutes on the slower Pi versions - please wait.
Stop Node-RED ✔
Remove old version of Node-RED ✔
Remove old version of Node.js ✔
Install Node.js LTS ✘ Failed to install Node.js - Exit
Clean npm cache
Install Node-RED core
Move global nodes to local
Install extra Pi nodes
Npm rebuild existing nodes
Add shortcut commands
Update systemd script
Any errors will be logged to /var/log/nodered-install.log
Log:
Started : Mon 1 Jun 11:15:27 UTC 2020
Running for user pi at /home/pi
Found global nodes: :
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Package 'nodered' is not installed, so not removed
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libhttp-parser2.8 nodejs-doc
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 100 not upgraded.
Now install nodejs
Updating nodejs
Not using nodesource.list
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
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Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
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Versions: node:v8.11.1 npm:
deb http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/ stretch main contrib non-free rpi
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ wheezy main non-free
# Uncomment line below then 'apt-get update' to enable 'apt-get source'
deb-src http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/ stretch main contrib non-free rpi
you should either change that wheezy to stretch - or comment it out if the application that you needed it for is no longer needed.
Then run a sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade before retrying the install script.
