# Pirate Radio Software Fail

**URL:** <https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pirate-radio-software-fail/12838>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [January 23, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pirate-radio-software-fail/12838 "2020-01-23T15:53:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![johnny\_quattro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ab097/32.png) [@johnny\_quattro](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/johnny_quattro)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 10:22am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pirate-radio-software-fail/12838/17 "2020-10-22T10:22:43Z")

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Following on from johnelle’s post, I was able to get VLC running in no time at all on a newly-installed Buster version of the Raspberry Pi OS after an SD card failure.

I ran the following command to replace the ‘jessie’ string with that of ‘buster’ and re-ran the setup.sh script:

_sed -i ‘s/jessie/buster/’ /home/pi/Pimoroni/phatbeat/projects/vlc-radio/setup.sh_

sed command - stream editor, used to make the changes. The ‘i’ option is for interactive use.

If you’re not comfortable using _sed_ to effect the change, simply use vi (or geany if you prefer a GUI app) and make the change that way.

Whilst I was in there, I tweaked the value of the VU meter LED range to look more responsive, as per this post: [Pirate-Radio, pivumeter, Stretch](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pirate-radio-pivumeter-stretch/6002)

Changed the value in file /home/pi/Pimoroni/pivumeter/src/devices/phat-beat.c from 32767 to 4095, and now it’s all working perfectly.

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