# Problem getting Rockpool to work AT ALL! **URL:** \ **Category:** Flotilla\ **Created:** [January 24, 2016, 12:12am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/problem-getting-rockpool-to-work-at-all/1655 "2016-01-24T00:12:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![njwrigley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/njwrigley/32/1175_2.png) [@njwrigley](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/njwrigley)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2016, 12:12am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/problem-getting-rockpool-to-work-at-all/1655/1 "2016-01-24T00:12:39Z")
First experience with Raspberry Pi! I have a Rasberry Pi 2 and got Jessie installed. I updated and upgraded. I then used the terminal command: curl [get.pimoroni.com/rockpool](http://get.pimoroni.com/rockpool) | bash to get the Rockpool code installed. Rebooted. When I try to launch pretty much anything on the Pi, it does not launch. I can see the Rockpool menu item in Menu \> Programming, but if I try to launch this, nothing happens. Lots of other things behave in ways that I’d not expect - Epiphany force closes as soon as I enter a URL and click ‘return’. Mathematica issues a ‘Serious Startup Error’ saying that ‘The front end was unable to create the defaults directory /home/pi/.Mathematica.’ Do you think that there is a basic thing that I ought to be doing, which I’m not? Something that you frequent users know that I don’t. I’ve tried x2 different SD cards and installed Jessie x2 on each of those SD cards just to make sure that it was not me having a bad download or dodgy hardware. Thanks for any and all help! ---
**Author:** ![RogueM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/roguem/32/311_2.png) [@RogueM](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/RogueM)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2016, 8:46am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/problem-getting-rockpool-to-work-at-all/1655/2 "2016-01-24T08:46:50Z")
Maybe you are out of storage space. How big are the SD? Have you expanded the filesystem with raspi-config? ---
**Author:** ![njwrigley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/njwrigley/32/1175_2.png) [@njwrigley](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/njwrigley)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2016, 2:44pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/problem-getting-rockpool-to-work-at-all/1655/3 "2016-01-24T14:44:08Z")
Thanks for that. The expanded filesystem was the thing that I needed to do! Great catch! ---
**Author:** ![pechart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4491bb/32.png) [@pechart](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/pechart)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/problem-getting-rockpool-to-work-at-all/1655/4 "2016-01-25T14:53:29Z")
I ran into this one, too. Maybe you should point it out on the start page! ---
**Author:** ![RogueM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/roguem/32/311_2.png) [@RogueM](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/RogueM)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 6:59pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/problem-getting-rockpool-to-work-at-all/1655/5 "2016-01-25T18:59:42Z")
I guess that is easy enough to do, but there is not an enormous amount of space requirement due to Flotilla itself… this is really a basic step that has nothing to do with it and something that would bite you sooner rather than later. It is pointed out here: > **[Raspberry Pi - Teach, Learn, and Make with Raspberry Pi](https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/raspi-config.md)** > > The Raspberry Pi is a tiny and affordable computer that you can use to learn programming through fun, practical projects. Join the global Raspberry Pi Community. … it only applies to non-NOOBS install, which themselves probably should come at this stage with a warning that running raspi-config and familiarising one-self with it is a good idea. As to why Raspbian initial boot no longer kicks you there right away I do not know. ---
**Author:** ![pechart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4491bb/32.png) [@pechart](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/pechart)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 9:30pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/problem-getting-rockpool-to-work-at-all/1655/6 "2016-01-27T21:30:44Z")
Yeah, of course this should be handled directly by raspberry. But a little hint by you would not harm anyone, right? ;) I think the concept of flotilla is not to get too familiar with the underlying stuff, just get up and running as fast as possible. But this is your project, I don’t want to mess with your kind of doing things, of course.