Trying to Program Plasma lights via GPIO

[RonaldL]

Trying to program lights to be individual solid colours

Going to be programming buttons to play sound and display image on a screen.

I have downloaded the plasma files

But the installer will not run.

Stating missing file and command not found

Anyone able to help. I’m new to this and I am a little lost. Thinking I have bitten off way more than I can chew for a beginner project.

Let me know if you’re able to assist!

Thanks

[alphanumeric]

Buster Lite, or Buster with Desktop?
Did you run this > curl https://get.pimoroni.com/plasma | bash from a terminal window?

[alphanumeric]

Have a look see here,

Plasma Software not working

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