# Blinkt! For PirateBox?

**URL:** https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/blinkt-for-piratebox/4723
**Category:** Raspberry Pi
**Created:** [May 6, 2017, 7:31pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/blinkt-for-piratebox/4723 "2017-05-06T19:31:48Z")
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### Author: ![Hereforthebeers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Hereforthebeers](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/Hereforthebeers)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2017, 7:31pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/blinkt-for-piratebox/4723/1 "2017-05-06T19:31:48Z")

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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

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### Author: ![gadgetoid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/gadgetoid/32/13_2.png) [@gadgetoid](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/gadgetoid)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 8:56am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/blinkt-for-piratebox/4723/2 "2017-05-08T08:56:16Z")

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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:

```auto
cat /etc/os-release

```

and

```auto
uname -a

```

and

```auto
lsb_release -a

```

You might just be able to install Blinkt! (the Python library anyway) with `sudo pip install blinkt`

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### Author: ![Hereforthebeers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Hereforthebeers](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/Hereforthebeers)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 11:41am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/blinkt-for-piratebox/4723/3 "2017-05-08T11:41:55Z")

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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/](http://archlinuxarm.org/)”  
> SUPPORT\_URL=“[Arch Linux ARM • Index page](https://archlinuxarm.org/forum)”  
> BUG\_REPORT\_URL=“[Pull requests · archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs · GitHub](https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/issues)”

> [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 ~]$

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### Author: ![gadgetoid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/gadgetoid/32/13_2.png) [@gadgetoid](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/gadgetoid)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 1:29pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/blinkt-for-piratebox/4723/4 "2017-05-08T13:29:44Z")

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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`