A lot of errors during installation

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Following the installation guide on the website I get a lot of errors.

Is this normal?

dietpi@DietPi:~$ npm install pimatic --prefix pimatic-app --production
npm WARN deprecated jayschema@0.3.2: this project is no longer maintained
npm WARN deprecated coffee-script@1.12.7: CoffeeScript on NPM has moved to "coffeescript" (no hyphen)
npm WARN installMany coffee-script was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany express was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany i18n was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany winston was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany cassert was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany lodash was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany bluebird was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany semver was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany fs.extra was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany daemon was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany date-format-lite was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany string was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany byline was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany knex was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany moment was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany colors was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany decl-api was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany jayschema was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany relaxed-json was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany source-map-support was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany human-format was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany gethub was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany npm was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree

Maybe your OS, DietPi is stripped too much? This is not normal behaviour for a pimatic installation.

I’m not sure that’s it, because…

installing with a more up to date version of node (8.11.4) gives somewhat different errors.

dietpi@DietPi:~$ npm install pimatic --prefix pimatic-app --production
npm WARN deprecated coffee-script@1.12.7: CoffeeScript on NPM has moved to "coffeescript" (no hyphen)
npm WARN deprecated jayschema@0.3.2: this project is no longer maintained
npm WARN deprecated nomnom@1.8.1: Package no longer supported. Contact support@npmjs.com for more info.
npm WARN notice [SECURITY] string has the following vulnerability: 1 high. Go here for more details: https://nodesecurity.io/advisories?search=string&version=3.3.3 - Run `npm i npm@latest -g` to upgrade your npm version, and then `npm audit` to get more info.
npm WARN notice [SECURITY] debug has the following vulnerability: 1 low. Go here for more details: https://nodesecurity.io/advisories?search=debug&version=2.3.3 - Run `npm i npm@latest -g` to upgrade your npm version, and then `npm audit` to get more info.
npm WARN notice [SECURITY] debug has the following vulnerability: 1 low. Go here for more details: https://nodesecurity.io/advisories?search=debug&version=2.2.0 - Run `npm i npm@latest -g` to upgrade your npm version, and then `npm audit` to get more info.
npm WARN notice [SECURITY] debug has the following vulnerability: 1 low. Go here for more details: https://nodesecurity.io/advisories?search=debug&version=2.3.3 - Run `npm i npm@latest -g` to upgrade your npm version, and then `npm audit` to get more info.
npm WARN notice [SECURITY] debug has the following vulnerability: 1 low. Go here for more details: https://nodesecurity.io/advisories?search=debug&version=2.3.3 - Run `npm i npm@latest -g` to upgrade your npm version, and then `npm audit` to get more info.
npm WARN notice [SECURITY] parsejson has the following vulnerability: 1 high. Go here for more details: https://nodesecurity.io/advisories?search=parsejson&version=0.0.3 - Run `npm i npm@latest -g` to upgrade your npm version, and then `npm audit` to get more info.
npm WARN notice [SECURITY] lodash has the following vulnerability: 1 low. Go here for more details: https://nodesecurity.io/advisories?search=lodash&version=3.10.1 - Run `npm i npm@latest -g` to upgrade your npm version, and then `npm audit` to get more info.

> typechecker@2.0.8 preinstall /home/dietpi/pimatic-app/node_modules/extract-opts/node_modules/typechecker
> node ./cyclic.js


> typechecker@2.0.8 preinstall /home/dietpi/pimatic-app/node_modules/extendr/node_modules/typechecker
> node ./cyclic.js

npm WARN saveError ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/dietpi/pimatic-app/package.json'
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/dietpi/pimatic-app/package.json'
npm WARN pimatic-app No description
npm WARN pimatic-app No repository field.
npm WARN pimatic-app No README data
npm WARN pimatic-app No license field.

Installing on a mac with Node.js version 10.8 gives similar errors:

npm WARN deprecated coffee-script@1.12.7: CoffeeScript on NPM has moved to "coffeescript" (no hyphen)
npm WARN deprecated jayschema@0.3.2: this project is no longer maintained
npm WARN deprecated nomnom@1.8.1: Package no longer supported. Contact support@npmjs.com for more info.

> typechecker@2.0.8 preinstall /Users/redacted/Downloads/pimatic-app/node_modules/extract-opts/node_modules/typechecker
> node ./cyclic.js


> typechecker@2.0.8 preinstall /Users/redacted/Downloads/pimatic-app/node_modules/extendr/node_modules/typechecker
> node ./cyclic.js

npm WARN saveError ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/redacted/Downloads/pimatic-app/package.json'
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/redacted/Downloads/pimatic-app/package.json'
npm WARN pimatic-app No description
npm WARN pimatic-app No repository field.
npm WARN pimatic-app No README data
npm WARN pimatic-app No license field.

+ pimatic@0.9.43
added 553 packages from 721 contributors and audited 1475 packages in 91.109s
found 53 vulnerabilities (10 low, 35 moderate, 8 high)
  run `npm audit fix` to fix them, or `npm audit` for details

So for me the most logical conclusion is that the install script is outdated? It’s not a weird thing to think, since the install page still lists Node 4as the version of node to install.

If someone wants to update the install page on the website, when I would suggest going with Node JS 8 stable:

wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.11.4/node-v8.11.4-linux-armv6l.tar.gz -P /tmp
cd /usr/local
sudo tar xzvf /tmp/node-v8.11.4-linux-armv6l.tar.gz --strip=1

The next step, starting Pimatic, gave similar errors on both Raspberry Pi and Mac:

dietpi@DietPi:~/pimatic-app$ sudo node_modules/pimatic/pimatic.js
coffee-cache: compiling coffee-script file "lib/daemon.coffee"...Done
coffee-cache: compiling coffee-script file "startup.coffee"...Done
coffee-cache: compiling coffee-script file "lib/logger.coffee"...Done
13:31:20.415 2018-08-20 Monday
coffee-cache: compiling coffee-script file "lib/api.coffee"...Done
coffee-cache: compiling coffee-script file "lib/users.coffee"...Done
coffee-cache: compiling coffee-script file "lib/devices.coffee"...Done
coffee-cache: compiling coffee-script file "lib/matcher.coffee"...Done
coffee-cache: compiling coffee-script file "lib/milliseconds.coffee"...Done
coffee-cache: compiling coffee-script file "lib/variables.coffee"...Done
coffee-cache: compiling coffee-script file "lib/variables-ast-builder.coffee"...Done
coffee-cache: compiling coffee-script file "lib/actions.coffee"...Done
coffee-cache: compiling coffee-script file "lib/predicates.coffee"...Done
coffee-cache: compiling coffee-script file "lib/rules.coffee"...Done
coffee-cache: compiling coffee-script file "lib/rules-ast-builder.coffee"...Done
coffee-cache: compiling coffee-script file "lib/plugins.coffee"...Done
coffee-cache: compiling coffee-script file "lib/database.coffee"...Done
coffee-cache: compiling coffee-script file "lib/groups.coffee"...Done
coffee-cache: compiling coffee-script file "lib/pages.coffee"...Done
coffee-cache: compiling coffee-script file "lib/framework.coffee"...Done
13:33:01.851 [pimatic] Starting pimatic version 0.9.43
13:33:01.881 [pimatic] Node.js version 8.11.4
13:33:01.888 [pimatic] OpenSSL version 1.0.2p
coffee-cache: compiling coffee-script file "config-schema.coffee"...Done
13:33:04.388 [pimatic] Installing database package sqlite3, this can take some minutes
13:33:55.481 [pimatic, ppm] > sqlite3@3.1.8 install /home/dietpi/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3
13:33:55.495 [pimatic, ppm] > node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build
13:34:01.791 [pimatic, ppm] node-pre-gyp ERR! Tried to download(403): https://mapbox-node-binary.s3.amazonaws.com/sqlite3/v3.1.8/node-v57-linux-arm.tar.gz 
13:34:01.810 [pimatic, ppm] node-pre-gyp ERR! Pre-built binaries not found for sqlite3@3.1.8 and node@8.11.4 (node-v57 ABI) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp) 
13:34:06.567 [pimatic, ppm] gyp ERR! configure error 
13:34:06.587 [pimatic, ppm] gyp ERR! stack Error: Can't find Python executable "python", you can set the PYTHON env variable.
13:34:06.593 [pimatic, ppm] gyp ERR! stack     at PythonFinder.failNoPython (/home/dietpi/pimatic-app/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:482:19)
13:34:06.610 [pimatic, ppm] gyp ERR! stack     at PythonFinder.<anonymous> (/home/dietpi/pimatic-app/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:396:16)
13:34:06.615 [pimatic, ppm] gyp ERR! stack     at F (/home/dietpi/pimatic-app/node_modules/npm/node_modules/which/which.js:69:16)
13:34:06.629 [pimatic, ppm] gyp ERR! stack     at E (/home/dietpi/pimatic-app/node_modules/npm/node_modules/which/which.js:81:29)
13:34:06.640 [pimatic, ppm] gyp ERR! stack     at /home/dietpi/pimatic-app/node_modules/npm/node_modules/which/which.js:90:16
13:34:06.651 [pimatic, ppm] gyp ERR! stack     at /home/dietpi/pimatic-app/node_modules/npm/node_modules/which/node_modules/isexe/index.js:44:5
13:34:06.669 [pimatic, ppm] gyp ERR! stack     at /home/dietpi/pimatic-app/node_modules/npm/node_modules/which/node_modules/isexe/access.js:8:5
13:34:06.675 [pimatic, ppm] gyp ERR! stack     at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:135:15)
13:34:06.691 [pimatic, ppm] gyp ERR! System Linux 4.14.52+
13:34:06.698 [pimatic, ppm] gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/home/dietpi/pimatic-app/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "configure" "--fallback-to-build" "--module=/home/dietpi/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v57-linux-arm/node_sqlite3.node" "--module_name=node_sqlite3" "--module_path=/home/dietpi/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v57-linux-arm"
13:34:06.726 [pimatic, ppm] gyp ERR! cwd /home/dietpi/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3
13:34:06.738 [pimatic, ppm] gyp ERR! node -v v8.11.4
13:34:06.749 [pimatic, ppm] gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.6.0
13:34:06.769 [pimatic, ppm] gyp ERR! not ok 
13:34:06.777 [pimatic, ppm] node-pre-gyp ERR! build error 
13:34:06.783 [pimatic, ppm] node-pre-gyp ERR! stack Error: Failed to execute '/usr/local/bin/node /home/dietpi/pimatic-app/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --module=/home/dietpi/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v57-linux-arm/node_sqlite3.node --module_name=node_sqlite3 --module_path=/home/dietpi/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v57-linux-arm' (1)
13:34:06.797 [pimatic, ppm] node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/dietpi/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3/node_modules/node-pre-gyp/lib/util/compile.js:83:29)
13:34:06.811 [pimatic, ppm] node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at emitTwo (events.js:126:13)
13:34:06.832 [pimatic, ppm] node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:214:7)
13:34:06.839 [pimatic, ppm] node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:925:16)
13:34:06.860 [pimatic, ppm] node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:209:5)
13:34:06.869 [pimatic, ppm] node-pre-gyp ERR! System Linux 4.14.52+
13:34:06.878 [pimatic, ppm] node-pre-gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/home/dietpi/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3/node_modules/.bin/node-pre-gyp" "install" "--fallback-to-build"
13:34:06.884 [pimatic, ppm] node-pre-gyp ERR! cwd /home/dietpi/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3
13:34:06.891 [pimatic, ppm] node-pre-gyp ERR! node -v v8.11.4
13:34:06.898 [pimatic, ppm] node-pre-gyp ERR! node-pre-gyp -v v0.6.31
13:34:06.905 [pimatic, ppm] node-pre-gyp ERR! not ok 
13:34:06.914 [pimatic, ppm] Failed to execute '/usr/local/bin/node /home/dietpi/pimatic-app/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --module=/home/dietpi/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v57-linux-arm/node_sqlite3.node --module_name=node_sqlite3 --module_path=/home/dietpi/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v57-linux-arm' (1)
13:34:07.016 [pimatic, ppm] ERR! Linux 4.14.52+
13:34:07.037 [pimatic, ppm] ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/home/dietpi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/ppm.js" "install" "sqlite3@3.1.8" "--unsafe-perm"
13:34:07.047 [pimatic, ppm] ERR! node v8.11.4
13:34:07.062 [pimatic, ppm] ERR! npm  v2.15.12
13:34:07.072 [pimatic, ppm] ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
13:34:07.093 [pimatic, ppm] ERR! sqlite3@3.1.8 install: `node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build`
13:34:07.099 [pimatic, ppm] ERR! Exit status 1
13:34:07.117 [pimatic, ppm] ERR! 
13:34:07.136 [pimatic, ppm] ERR! Failed at the sqlite3@3.1.8 install script 'node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build'.
13:34:07.142 [pimatic, ppm] ERR! This is most likely a problem with the sqlite3 package,
13:34:07.153 [pimatic, ppm] ERR! not with npm itself.
13:34:07.170 [pimatic, ppm] ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
13:34:07.180 [pimatic, ppm] ERR!     node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build
13:34:07.201 [pimatic, ppm] ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
13:34:07.207 [pimatic, ppm] ERR!     npm bugs sqlite3
13:34:07.220 [pimatic, ppm] ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
13:34:07.267 [pimatic, ppm] ERR! 
13:34:07.275 [pimatic, ppm] ERR!     npm owner ls sqlite3
13:34:07.293 [pimatic, ppm] ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
13:34:13.824 [pimatic, ppm] ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
13:34:13.834 [pimatic, ppm] ERR!     /home/dietpi/pimatic-app/npm-debug.log
13:34:13.980 [pimatic] Startup error: Error: Error running "./node_modules/pimatic/ppm.js install sqlite3@3.1.8 --unsafe-perm"
13:34:13.980 [pimatic]>    at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/dietpi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/lib/plugins.coffee:374:20)
13:34:13.980 [pimatic]>    at emitTwo (events.js:126:13)
13:34:13.980 [pimatic]>    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:214:7)
13:34:13.980 [pimatic]>    at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:925:16)
13:34:13.980 [pimatic]>    at Socket.stream.socket.on (internal/child_process.js:346:11)
13:34:13.980 [pimatic]>    at emitOne (events.js:116:13)
13:34:13.980 [pimatic]>    at Socket.emit (events.js:211:7)
13:34:13.980 [pimatic]>    at Pipe._handle.close [as _onclose] (net.js:557:12)
13:34:13.998 [pimatic] exiting...

The problem here seems to be that opening this like:
https://mapbox-node-binary.s3.amazonaws.com/sqlite3/v3.1.8/node-v57-linux-arm.tar.gz

Results in an access denied error from the mapbox server (tested in browser).

Well, good morning mr Smith. Following THIS how-to you’ll see that Pimatic is based/built on node v4. That being said there are numerous people who had a lot of issues with the most recent update of Pimatic (just search the forum).
I was able to skip a lot of errors just using the previous version of pimatic npm install pimatic@0.9.42.
Please see THIS thread for other possible solutions.

But it all starts with your NODE version, any other than v4.6.2 is bound to cause issues…!!

@Stokstaart Thanks! I’ll start the image form scratch for the 3rd time

Good luck!!

it seems I’m just back to the beginning…

npm WARN deprecated coffee-script@1.12.7: CoffeeScript on NPM has moved to "coffeescript" (no hyphen)
npm WARN deprecated jayschema@0.3.2: this project is no longer maintained
npm WARN installMany coffee-script was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany express was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany i18n was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany winston was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany cassert was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany lodash was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany bluebird was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany semver was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany fs.extra was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany daemon was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany date-format-lite was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany string was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany byline was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany knex was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany moment was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany colors was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany decl-api was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany jayschema was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany relaxed-json was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany source-map-support was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany human-format was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany gethub was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN installMany npm was bundled with pimatic@0.9.43, but bundled package wasn't found in unpacked tree
npm WARN deprecated nomnom@1.8.1: Package no longer supported. Contact support@npmjs.com for more info.

Could it be that NPM needs an update? I found this command on Stackexchange:
sudo npm install -g npm