Installing on Ubuntu

[richardbrn]

Hello. I am trying to install on a Ubuntu 22.04 box - I am not a linux person (mac os really) so this maybe a problem because I am not doing it right.

Basically, ubuntu is build and I log on as my user account (richard) and am running the install command as below...

sudo curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs git make g++ gcc

That works and node and npm give the right version numbers.

Then I do
sudo git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt.git /opt/zigbee2mqtt

And that works and downloads the files, and thenm it goes wrong!
if I then try

cd /opt/zigbee2mqtt
npm ci

I get the following output:

richard@homebridge:/opt$ npm ci
npm ERR! code EUSAGE
npm ERR!
npm ERR! The npm ci command can only install with an existing package-lock.json or
npm ERR! npm-shrinkwrap.json with lockfileVersion >= 1. Run an install with npm@5 or
npm ERR! later to generate a package-lock.json file, then try again.
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Clean install a project
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Usage:
npm ERR! npm ci
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Options:
npm ERR! [--no-audit] [--foreground-scripts] [--ignore-scripts]
npm ERR! [--script-shell ]
npm ERR!
npm ERR! aliases: clean-install, ic, install-clean, isntall-clean
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Run "npm help ci" for more info

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/richard/.npm/_logs/2022-07-13T19_19_42_174Z-debug-0.log

if I use sudo npm ci it works so it must be a permissions problem but not sure what or how to fix it.

Bascially, I need some real simple instrutions of how to get the npm ci to work, and then how to get the npm start command to run as service when the box reboots - any help would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks
Richard

[Nardol]

To set proper permissions run:
sudo chown -hR richard:richard /opt/zigbee2mqtt
This will set ownership to your user and its group for /opt/zigbee2mqtt and all subfolders.

After that npm ci should work as expected.

To run Zigbee2MQTT at startup, Follow the documentation.
The only difference is to put User=richard instead of User=pi and it should work as expected.