[solved]cannot start fresh pimatic installation

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hi,

i just set up a new pimatic instance on a raspberry pi. i had one running before without any trouble and installed it according to the instructions on pimatic.org.

When trying to start pimatic, though, I get the following errors:

coffee-cache: compiling coffee-script file "startup.coffee"...Done
15:27:16.247 2017-10-17 Tuesday
coffee-cache: compiling coffee-script file "lib/framework.coffee"...Done
15:27:24.441 [pimatic] info: Starting pimatic version 0.9.42
coffee-cache: compiling coffee-script file "config-schema.coffee"...Done
15:27:25.807 [pimatic] info: Installing database package sqlite3, this can take some minutes
15:27:42.995 [pimatic, ppm] info: > sqlite3@3.1.8 install /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3
15:27:42.999 [pimatic, ppm] info: > node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build
15:27:45.603 [pimatic, ppm] info: node-pre-gyp ERR! Tried to download(403): https://mapbox-node-binary.s3.amazonaws.com/sqlite3/v3.1.8/node-v46-linux-arm.tar.gz
15:27:45.605 [pimatic, ppm] info: node-pre-gyp ERR! Pre-built binaries not found for sqlite3@3.1.8 and node@4.6.2 (node-v46 ABI) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp)
15:27:57.818 [pimatic, ppm] info: make: Entering directory '/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3/build'
15:27:57.828 [pimatic, ppm] info:   ACTION deps_sqlite3_gyp_action_before_build_target_unpack_sqlite_dep Release/obj/gen/sqlite-autoconf-3150000/sqlite3.c
15:27:58.464 [pimatic, ppm] info:   TOUCH Release/obj.target/deps/action_before_build.stamp
15:27:58.490 [pimatic, ppm] info:   CC(target) Release/obj.target/sqlite3/gen/sqlite-autoconf-3150000/sqlite3.o
15:30:30.805 2017-10-17 Tuesday
15:31:26.508 2017-10-17 Tuesday
15:33:07.217 2017-10-17 Tuesday
15:43:02.158 2017-10-17 Tuesday
15:44:17.566 2017-10-17 Tuesday
16:38:12.162 2017-10-17 Tuesday

Looks like a certain file cannot be downloaded and therefore I cannot run pimatic. Is there a way for me to manually install that file, or how else can I get pimatic running?

Thanks in advance for your support

@Ben-S. Hi Ben, try installing sqlite3 manually;

cd pimatic-app/node_modules
sudo rm sqlite3
sudo npm install sqlite3

Thank you for the advice. This seemed to only create more errors though:

pi@giles:~/pimatic-app/node_modules $ sudo npm install sqlite3
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> sqlite3@3.1.13 install /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3
> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build

node-pre-gyp ERR! Tried to download(403): https://mapbox-node-binary.s3.amazonaws.com/sqlite3/v3.1.13/node-v46-linux-arm.tar.gz
node-pre-gyp ERR! Pre-built binaries not found for sqlite3@3.1.13 and node@4.6.2 (node-v46 ABI) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp)
gyp WARN EACCES user "root" does not have permission to access the dev dir "/root/.node-gyp/4.6.2"
gyp WARN EACCES attempting to reinstall using temporary dev dir "/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3/.node-gyp"
make: Entering directory '/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3/build'
make: *** No rule to make target '../.node-gyp/4.6.2/include/node/common.gypi', needed by 'Makefile'.  Schluss.
make: Leaving directory '/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3/build'
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:276:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at emitTwo (events.js:87:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:172:7)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:211:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.9.35-v7+
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "build" "--fallback-to-build" "--module=/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v46-linux-arm/node_sqlite3.node" "--module_name=node_sqlite3" "--module_path=/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v46-linux-arm"
gyp ERR! cwd /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3
gyp ERR! node -v v4.6.2
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.4.0
gyp ERR! not ok
node-pre-gyp ERR! build error
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack Error: Failed to execute '/usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js build --fallback-to-build --module=/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v46-linux-arm/node_sqlite3.node --module_name=node_sqlite3 --module_path=/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v46-linux-arm' (1)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3/node_modules/node-pre-gyp/lib/util/compile.js:83:29)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at emitTwo (events.js:87:13)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:172:7)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:854:16)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:222:5)
node-pre-gyp ERR! System Linux 4.9.35-v7+
node-pre-gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3/node_modules/.bin/node-pre-gyp" "install" "--fallback-to-build"
node-pre-gyp ERR! cwd /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3
node-pre-gyp ERR! node -v v4.6.2
node-pre-gyp ERR! node-pre-gyp -v v0.6.38
node-pre-gyp ERR! not ok
Failed to execute '/usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js build --fallback-to-build --module=/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v46-linux-arm/node_sqlite3.node --module_name=node_sqlite3 --module_path=/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v46-linux-arm' (1)
npm ERR! Linux 4.9.35-v7+
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "sqlite3"
npm ERR! node v4.6.2
npm ERR! npm  v2.15.11
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! sqlite3@3.1.13 install: `node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the sqlite3@3.1.13 install script 'node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build'.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the sqlite3 package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR!     npm bugs sqlite3
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR!
npm ERR!     npm owner ls sqlite3
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/npm-debug.log

I don’t quite understand how root cannot have sufficient rights to access that directory mentioned above.

@Ben-S. Well, there are 3 options, either use root, or chown the directory, or use this command;

sudo npm install sqlite3 --unsafe-perm

@Gleno0h thank you so much!! It works now Awesome!!

@Ben-S. Great!