/opt/dotnet/dotnet: No such file or directory

[andrew]

sorry i just couldn't figure out what attachments are supported by this forum. See attached zip.

[mvallevand]

Ok I think I've got it. Do you already have dotnet installed /usr/share/dotnet ? It is possible the MS script I called won't download it again.

If you do could if you run

sudo ln -s /user/share/dotnet /opt/dotnet

does it help?

Martin

[andrew]

that did it. However, please note I installed dotnet on my own after it failed to work at initial install (you can see in the console log this was my meager attempt at solving the problem myself). I think the issue is the .deb file does not install dotnet successfully. Also for those reading this thread please note the correct command above should be

sudo ln -s /usr/share/dotnet /opt/dotnet

thanks for the weekend help. I just donated $50.

[mvallevand]

I did not see the dotnet install in the log either let me check if something changes

Edit yes the location for the MS file did get redirected I have to put in a fix. There should have been an error in the stderr log.

Martin

[andrew]

sorry you are correct, i did not scroll back far enough in what i zip'd up for you.

my steps to produce this problem were:

• clean install of Ubuntu 16.04 server with defaults + ssh enabled
  
• installed nextpvr as per https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?tid=59390
  
• saw it did not find /opt/dotnet as per syslog
  
• installed dotnet 2.2. as per https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/li...dk-2.2.402
  
• restarted nextpvr, still saw the /opt/dotnet issue, then posted here for help
  

it is possible that the initial npvr install did install dotnet properly. when i did the apt-get for dotnet as per the msft site it definitely changed files/did real work. However I can't say for sure if your deb file did install dotnet and just missed the link.

If you are itching to know the answer to this i can install again from scratch but not tonight. for now i'm happy (it's running) but I appreciate the desire to have easily reproducible bugs.  LMK.

[mvallevand]

The installer was clearly failing for me because of the change in the location, nothing you did.

Martin

[mvallevand]

If you want to test it cleanly now remove both dotnet folders you have and use this deb installer

nextpvr-helper.deb SHA256: 3623815B9C3FB2721AADAC6FD1142DBBB66A81FB4A2CBEF670EC286B23683162


Martin

[lostboy]

I was having the same problem and the new deb worked fine for me, thanks Martin.

Chris

[shspvr]

sorry you are correct, i did not scroll back far enough in what i zip'd up for you.

my steps to produce this problem were:

• clean install of Ubuntu 16.04 server with defaults + ssh enabled
  
• installed nextpvr as per https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?tid=59390
  
• saw it did not find /opt/dotnet as per syslog
  
• installed dotnet 2.2. as per https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/li...dk-2.2.402
  
• restarted nextpvr, still saw the /opt/dotnet issue, then posted here for help
  

it is possible that the initial npvr install did install dotnet properly. when i did the apt-get for dotnet as per the msft site it definitely changed files/did real work. However I can't say for sure if your deb file did install dotnet and just missed the link.

If you are itching to know the answer to this i can install again from scratch but not tonight. for now i'm happy (it's running) but I appreciate the desire to have easily reproducible bugs.  LMK.

I recommend getting Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

[mvallevand]

I recommend getting Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

One nice thing about linux is that older versions stay supported (16 LTS has a few years left).  On x86-64 there is no specific reason to upgrade that I can think. In any case that wasn't the problem here.

Martin