Using dpkg to install on Raspberry Pi

gjacobse

Trying to install the WSPR - Weak Signal Propagation Report software on the rPi3 and running into a small error.

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo dpkg --instdir=. -i wspr_2.00r1714_i386.deb
dpkg-deb: error: `wspr_2.00r1714_i386.deb' is not a debian format archive
dpkg: error processing archive wspr_2.00r1714_i386.deb (--install):
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 wspr_2.00r1714_i386.deb

Pretty sure @scottalanmiller (or others) can spot the issue in a moment,.. but I'm not seeing it.

Downloading the package doesn't take long, as it's only about 2MB.

gjacobse

Changed topic as WGET works fine;

stacksofplates

Can you use gdebi?

gjacobse

@stacksofplates said in Using dpkg to install on Raspberry Pi:

Can you use gdebi?

yes

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo gdebi --apt-line wspr_2.00r1714_i386.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Building data structures... Done
Failed to open the software package
The package might be corrupted or you are not allowed to open the file. Check the permissions of the file.

stacksofplates

@gjacobse said in Using dpkg to install on Raspberry Pi:

@stacksofplates said in Using dpkg to install on Raspberry Pi:

Can you use gdebi?

yes

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo gdebi --apt-line wspr_2.00r1714_i386.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Building data structures... Done
Failed to open the software package
The package might be corrupted or you are not allowed to open the file. Check the permissions of the file.

I tried to run it with dpkg and it failed for me also, however it was a different error. They might have just packaged it badly.

gjacobse

@stacksofplates said in Using dpkg to install on Raspberry Pi:

@gjacobse said in Using dpkg to install on Raspberry Pi:
@stacksofplates said in Using dpkg to install on Raspberry Pi:

Can you use gdebi?

yes
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo gdebi --apt-line wspr_2.00r1714_i386.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Building data structures... Done
Failed to open the software package
The package might be corrupted or you are not allowed to open the file. Check the permissions of the file.
I tried to run it with dpkg and it failed for me also, however it was a different error. They might have just packaged it badly.

so may not be the nut behind the keyboard,...

stacksofplates

Here's what I got:

jhooks@megatron:~/Downloads$ sudo gdebi wspr_2.00r1714_i386.deb 
[sudo] password for jhooks: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done
This package is uninstallable
Cannot install 'python-tk:i386'

gjacobse

Well there is another package available

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ wget http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wspr_2.11r2263_i386.deb
--2016-10-26 19:51:40--  http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wspr_2.11r2263_i386.deb
Resolving physics.princeton.edu (physics.princeton.edu)... 128.112.100.6
Connecting to physics.princeton.edu (physics.princeton.edu)|128.112.100.6|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 648034 (633K) [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘wspr_2.11r2263_i386.deb’

wspr_2.11r2263_i386.deb           100%[============================================================>] 632.85K   322KB/s   in 2.0s

2016-10-26 19:51:42 (322 KB/s) - ‘wspr_2.11r2263_i386.deb’ saved [648034/648034]

However:


pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo gdebi --apt-line wspr_2.11r2263_i386.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Building data structures... Done
This package is uninstallable
Wrong architecture 'i386'
pi@raspberrypi:~ $

gjacobse

Guess it's not meant to be for now. Meh,.. come back tomorrow and poke at it. I hear the TV calling.

thwr

@gjacobse said in Using dpkg to install on Raspberry Pi:

Trying to install the WSPR - Weak Signal Propagation Report software on the rPi3 and running into a small error.
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo dpkg --instdir=. -i wspr_2.00r1714_i386.deb
dpkg-deb: error: `wspr_2.00r1714_i386.deb' is not a debian format archive
dpkg: error processing archive wspr_2.00r1714_i386.deb (--install):
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 wspr_2.00r1714_i386.deb
Pretty sure @scottalanmiller (or others) can spot the issue in a moment,.. but I'm not seeing it.

Downloading the package doesn't take long, as it's only about 2MB.

Are you sure you want to install an i386 package on armhf? I don't know the software, but it could be a native compiled binary for x86 as the name suggests. You can't run that directly on ARM (except for some emulation in between like QEMU).

Solution: Use an ARM version

thwr

@gjacobse said in Using dpkg to install on Raspberry Pi:

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Wrong architecture 'i386'
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Oh, you already found the failure

stacksofplates

@thwr said in Using dpkg to install on Raspberry Pi:

@gjacobse said in Using dpkg to install on Raspberry Pi:
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Wrong architecture 'i386'
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Oh, you already found the failure

I glossed over that ha.

gjacobse

Okay so, not likely to get running-

Ah well.. It was a thought. It's not like I don't have several other options on running that software. Just thought it would be interesting to see what I could do with it... Part of the fun - Experimentation

aidan_walsh

According to this article you should be able to compile it for ARM pretty easily on the Pi.

gjacobse

@aidan_walsh said in Using dpkg to install on Raspberry Pi:

According to this article you should be able to compile it for ARM pretty easily on the Pi.

Had not found that yet....

Guess I know what I am doing for the next bit...well,.. in between trying to resolve a Windows 8.1 File Explorer issue on (gasp) another MS Surface.

gjacobse

My guess is that it didn't compile correctly:

pi@raspberrypi:~/wspr $ ./wspr
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "wspr.py", line 38, in <module>
    import Image, ImageTk, ImageDraw
ImportError: No module named Image

aidan_walsh

Missing a dependency?

gjacobse

@aidan_walsh said in Using dpkg to install on Raspberry Pi:

Missing a dependency?

Sudo apt-get update

was run prior to starting

aidan_walsh

Didi you grab the branch the article refers to or the latest?

And

sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion python2.7-dev python-numpy python-imaging-tk python-pmw libportaudio2 portaudio19-dev libsamplerate0-dev gfortran cl-fftw3 python-dev hamlib-utils

?

gjacobse

@aidan_walsh

Yes - that was done. Went line by line.