Thanks for the advice, I was misunderstanding what I read. I have gone back to my MagicMirror image and installed mycroft-core via
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git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core.git.
Then
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cd ~/Mycroft-core -
bash dev_setup.sh.
The installation went ok, with no issues. But when I started
./start-mycroft.sh debug
it gave an error about Padatious. and stopped.
It is apparently an issue with the libfann-dev needing to be newer than what’s in the repo.
I am considering trying two simultaneous builds on different sd cards. One which uses virtualenv and the other installing mycroft as a service through
sudo apt-get install mycroft-core
To see which method presents fewer issues. My concern with the latter is it installs a Mycroft user, and I’m wondering if that will present permission issues that will be harder to overcome.
I tried starting with the picroft image that’s available, but installing MagicMirror on to Jessie Lite proved just as difficult it seems. To install both on the same system requires a 16gb sd card. Fortunately I have 2 to play with.
Thank you so much for your advice. I am very new to all of this. If there is anything else I should look out for with either method, please let me know what you think.