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

[Floob]

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

[m3chstaa]

@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

[sselph]

@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.

[m3chstaa]

@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.

[m3chstaa]

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! :*-(

[sselph]

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.

[m3chstaa]

@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.

[BuZz]

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

[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 :)

[Swagman89]

@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.

[joelf]

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.

[timothyjbrick]

@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.

[BuZz]

@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