failed to install on raspberry pi raspbian stretch 4.4

[kiai72]

(edited version):

after installing the latest npm version i was able to "npm install" it.
but when i "npm start" i get this error (see further below).

so i assume i need raspbian DESKTOP / x11 to make this work ? is there no other option (without DESKTOP/x11) ?

pi@retropie:~/mmusiccast $ npm start

[email protected] start /home/pi/mmusiccast
electron .

/home/pi/mmusiccast/node_modules/electron/dist/electron: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
npm ERR! file sh
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall spawn
npm ERR! [email protected] start: electron .
npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2019-01-18T10_00_38_713Z-debug.log
pi@retropie:~/mmusiccast $

[vbaicu]

Hi,
Yes, you need the x11 in order to run it. Application runs with electron which requires it. If you attempt to run it via ssh it won't work unless you export the display variable first.

export DISPLAY:=0