Powerblock install on piCoreplayer

cpf928

Hi,
First post and a Newbie. I hope someone can help.
I have a powerblock and I am trying to get it working on a raspberry-pi running piCoreplayer. Unfortunately picoreplayer does not use Apt-get to install so the install scripts simply fail.

Does anyone know the steps to either do this manually or what I can do to update the install script such that it will work on piCoreplayer?

Many thanks
Cliff

ByteThis

@cpf928 Just a quick question.. have you used this on a previous build (PiCorePlayer ) ?

Does it work well ?

mitu

apt tries to install just git, in order to clone the Github project repository. You can download the source directly and comment out the lines in install.sh that run apt-get . Make sure you have git installed and run the install script again.

cpf928

@ByteThis Hi, apologies for the dely. No never, only got the powerblock a couple of days ago

cpf928

@mitu Hi, thanks for your reply. I will have a go and message back. thanks again

ByteThis

@cpf928 said in Powerblock install on piCoreplayer:

@ByteThis Hi, apologies for the dely. No never, only got the powerblock a couple of days ago

Is all good ! Hope you'post back here with your results ! Have seen the documentation..looking forward to a positive result.

Thanks.

cpf928

Hi, well I got a little further, thank you for your help.

I installed git and copied the install.sh down and commented out apt-get. I then ran the file.

It now errors on line 38: update-rc.d: not found. I cant find it either.
Then there does not appear to be a /lib/init/vars.sh I have checked and there is no directory /lib/init
I looked through the ./powerblock/scripts/powerblock file and it lists
. /lib/init/vars.sh (both the directory and file therefore do not exist) and
. /lib/lsb/init-function (both lsb directory and file do not exist

I am guessing this all because I am using picoreplayer version of linux

Any ideas would be much appreciated

thanks
Cliff

mitu

@cpf928 said in Powerblock install on piCoreplayer:

It now errors on line 38: update-rc.d: not found. I cant find it either.

This is a standard Debian utility to register a service for Powerblock so it starts automatically with the system. You can comment that out also, though you need to have a method to start the powerblock program - probably with a specific script or perhaps a service facility offered by the piCorePlayer (?).

cpf928

Thanks for your help @ByteThis . I tried for about 3 hours yesterday and simply couldn't get it to work. I have decided to abandon the Powerblock and build my own from scratch. thanks agin for you help. regards Cliff