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Cant start the Server on Raspberry Pi 2

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Hello, i can’t start the server on myRPI… this is the error-message

pi@smarthomeserver:~/homebridge$ sudo npm run start

homebridge@0.0.0 start /home/pi/homebridge node app.js

Starting HomeBridge server… module.js:338 throw err; ^ Error: Cannot find module ‘…/build/Release/dns_sd_bindings’ at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:336:15) at Function.Module._load (module.js:278:25) at Module.require (module.js:365:17) at require (module.js:384:17) at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/homebridge/lib/HAP-NodeJS/node_modules/mdns/lib/dns_sd.js:32:22) at Module._compile (module.js:460:26) at Object.Module._extensions…js (module.js:478:10) at Module.load (module.js:355:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12) at Module.require (module.js:365:17)

npm ERR! Linux 3.18.0-20-rpi2 npm ERR! argv “/usr/bin/node” “/usr/bin/npm” “run” “start” npm ERR! node v0.12.4 npm ERR! npm v2.10.1 npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! homebridge@0.0.0 start: node app.js npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the homebridge@0.0.0 start script ‘node app.js’. npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the homebridge package, npm ERR! not with npm itself. npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system: npm ERR! node app.js npm ERR! You can get their info via: npm ERR! npm owner ls homebridge npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request: npm ERR! /home/pi/homebridge/npm-debug.log pi@smarthomeserver:~/homebridge$

have anybody a hint for me ?