diff --git a/src/backend/Admin.ts b/src/backend/Admin.ts
index b99d223..3d5da3a 100644
--- a/src/backend/Admin.ts
+++ b/src/backend/Admin.ts
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ export class FrontblockAdmin extends AdminBase<AdminConf>{
             status = await updater.cloneRepo("https://gitea.frontblock.me/fb-dist/admin.git", force)
 
             this.destroy()
-            const installer = require("./Installer").install
+            const installer = require("./Installer").installAdmin
             installer(this.getPlugins())
         }
         return status
diff --git a/src/backend/Installer.ts b/src/backend/Installer.ts
index ad9743c..83c96f9 100644
--- a/src/backend/Installer.ts
+++ b/src/backend/Installer.ts
@@ -19,17 +19,34 @@ const logger = Logger.getLogger("installer")
 export type NPMPkgName = string
 export type NPMVersion = string
 
-export const install = (plugins: Plugin[] = []) => {
-    
-    const npmPkgs:[NPMPkgName, NPMVersion][] = [['sqlite3', '4.1.0'], ['knex', '0.19.2']]
+export const defaultNodePkgs = ():[NPMPkgName, NPMVersion][] => {
+    return [
+        ['sqlite3', '4.1.0'], 
+        ['knex', '0.19.2']
+    ]
+}
+
+export const npmInstall = (prefix: string = './plugins') => async (npmPkgs: [NPMPkgName, NPMVersion][]) => {
     const deps = npmPkgs.map(tuple => tuple.join('@') ).join(" ")
-    logger.info("Installing plaform dependencies: "+deps)
+    logger.info('npm install --prefix', prefix, deps)
 
-    exec("npm i --prefix ./plugins " + deps).then(process => {
-    
-        logger.debug(process.stdout)    
-        const Admin = require("./Admin").FrontblockAdmin
-        new Admin(plugins)
-    })
+    const { error, stdout, stderr } = await exec('npm i --prefix ' + prefix + ' ' + deps)
 
+    if (error) throw new Error(stderr)
+    else logger.info(stdout)
+}
+
+export const installAdmin = async (plugins: Plugin[] = []) => {
+    logger.debug('Installing Admin')
+
+    try {
+        await npmInstall()(defaultNodePkgs())
+        logger.info('Installed node dependencies')
+    } catch (error) {
+        logger.fatal('Unable to install node dependencies: ', error)
+        process.exit(1);
+    }
+
+    const Admin = require("./Admin").FrontblockAdmin
+    new Admin(plugins)
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/backend/Launcher.ts b/src/backend/Launcher.ts
index e48de69..03eb531 100644
--- a/src/backend/Launcher.ts
+++ b/src/backend/Launcher.ts
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-import { install } from "./Installer";
-install([])
+import { installAdmin } from "./Installer";
+installAdmin([])