Has anyone tried or successfully installed Blinkt! on a raspberry pi running PirateBox? I know it tells me its unsupported when trying to install, however I was wondering if there was a work around?
Thanks, HereForTheBeers
I’ve no idea what PirateBox’s OS image is based upon, and their website doesn’t seem very forthcoming either.
What do you see if you run:
cat /etc/os-release
and
uname -a
and
lsb_release -a
You might just be able to install Blinkt! (the Python library anyway) with sudo pip install blinkt
This is what I get back from the terminal. I have tried pip, do I need to be in a certain directory when I run that command?
Thanks, HereFortheBeers
[alarm@alarmpi ~]$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME=“Arch Linux ARM”
ID=archarm
ID_LIKE=arch
PRETTY_NAME=“Arch Linux ARM”
ANSI_COLOR=“0;36”
HOME_URL=“http://archlinuxarm.org/”
SUPPORT_URL=“Arch Linux ARM • Index page”
BUG_REPORT_URL=“Pull requests · archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs · GitHub”
[alarm@alarmpi ~]$ uname -a
Linux alarmpi 4.9.13-3-ARCH #1 SMP Fri Mar 3 18:45:16 MST 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux
[alarm@alarmpi ~]$ lsb_release -a
-bash: lsb_release: command not found
[alarm@alarmpi ~]$
What did you get out of pip?
You shouldn’t need to be in a specific directory, but I think pip might complain if you’re not in a directory your user can write to.
It’s possible that Python and pip are not installed, in which case you’ll have to cross that bridge first. My Arch/Pacman skills are rusty, but I think it’s:
pacman -S python-pip