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    Scraping Woes. Please be gentle, I'm a noob!

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      m3chstaa
      last edited by

      Yes I followed that guide to the letter but when it came to the scaping part it all happened really quick, impossibly quick. Then after it had finished it said something about golang package not available.

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        m3chstaa @m3chstaa
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        @m3chstaa

        I tried rebooting the system and did the same again using sudo command, went to setup, scraper. If there are errors thrown at this stage it's hard to see as the text just scrolls by too fast. Got the same problem, it says systems scraped really quick but nothing has been done. Then a dialog box comes up afterwards about the golang thing.

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          Floob
          last edited by

          Can you confirm you have an internet connection on the Pi?

          Please read the Docs before asking a new question.
          RetroPie Help Guides: https://goo.gl/3gcNsT

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            m3chstaa @Floob
            last edited by

            @Floob
            Yes I made sure of that by checking it was connected to the right wifi. I suppose it might be worth disconnecting and reconnecting? Thank s for the idea. :D

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              sselph
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              @floob 's suggestion is probably correct you might want to run something like ping google.com from the command line to make sure you have a connection. My scraper is written in Go so when possible RetroPie tries to install GoLang and build from source.

              Auto-scraper: https://github.com/sselph/scraper
              Donate to Extra-Life 2018 and help save lives: https://goo.gl/diu5oU

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                m3chstaa @sselph
                last edited by

                @sselph

                thank you for your help both of you. I will try this later on and make sure the internet connection is working.

                Thanks,

                Lee.

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                  m3chstaa
                  last edited by

                  So here's an update. Internet is working fine, that's confirmed. I ran the scraper again and tried to read the text that flies by. It says golang not found and tries to install it. Then I get error that some process was interrupted (dpkg?), and tells me i must manually run.... (can't make out the next bit). Then ends with message "could not install package(s): golang".

                  Can anyone help as I'm clueless! :*-(

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                    sselph
                    last edited by

                    Try sudo apt-get install golang from the command line. That will attempt to install the package and you will probably still get an error but at least you can read it.

                    Auto-scraper: https://github.com/sselph/scraper
                    Donate to Extra-Life 2018 and help save lives: https://goo.gl/diu5oU

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                      m3chstaa @sselph
                      last edited by

                      @sselph

                      thank you once again for your help. I did as requested and can now see it says, "dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

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                        BuZz administrators @m3chstaa
                        last edited by BuZz

                        @m3chstaa did you do as instructed - manually running sudo dpkg --configure -a ? You must have interrupted package installation at some point.

                        To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                          amonroy
                          last edited by amonroy

                          I don't know if you could solve it, but i had exactly the same problem and didn't find any answer anywhere.
                          "sudo apt-get install golang " won't help, because scraper install is trying to fing go in /opt/retropie/supplementary/golang/bin/go, so my solution was this:

                          1. Download the latest Go package available here https://golang.org/dl/ (currently go1.8.1.linux-armv6l.tar.gz)

                          2. Copy that into the Pi (used winSCP)

                          3. Open terminal and run the following commands in pi:
                            export GOROOT=/opt/retropie/supplementary/golang
                            export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin
                            sudo tar -C /opt/retropie/supplementary -xzf go1.8.1.linux-armv6l.tar.gz
                            sudo mv /opt/retropie/supplementary/go /opt/retropie/supplementary/golang

                          4. After that, you can retry to install scraper, and this time it will work :)

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                            Swagman89
                            last edited by

                            @amonroy Alternately you could remove selphscraper package from Retropie setup and then reinstall it. This would make sure everything actually got installed this go around.

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                              joelf
                              last edited by

                              I was having an issue with the scraper. The error I got was:

                              unable to install binary for golang
                              

                              When I checked in the log to see what happened, the error I got was

                              golang unexpected end of file tar
                              

                              The fix:

                              It was because the date on my pi was set incorrectly.

                              I needed to install ntpdate - to set the date and time correctly.

                              sudo apt update
                              sudo apt install ntpdate
                              sudo systemctl stop ntp
                              sudo ntpdate -s pool.ntp.org
                              

                              before I could go into the optional menu and install the scraper. Weird, but it worked.

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                                timothyjbrick @BuZz
                                last edited by

                                @buzz Hey there, my scraper install was actually interrupted (pi rebooted while installing) now I can't install scraper. I tried typing "sudo dpkg --configure -a" but nothing happens. Would you happen to have any other suggestions for fixing an install that go interrupted? Thanks in advance, sorry I know this is an old post.

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                                  BuZz administrators @timothyjbrick
                                  last edited by

                                  @timothyjbrick It is an old post - follow the instructions - Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

                                  To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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