Is my problem dotnet?

[Heifer]

The info I get when I run
service nextpvr-server status:

See text file ( I hope I have done this right!)

Leads me to think my install of NextPVR may be OK
BUT I am missing dotnet.
So I have made repeated attempts to install dotnet as per
https://i.stack.imgur.com/6rmCA.png

only to get the result:
E: Unable to locate package dotnet-runtime-6.0
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'dotnet-runtime-6.0'
Have tried the full SDK as well


Have also tried wget and snap
Always getting the unable to locate/couldn't find message

I've gotta be doing something wrong but - with my limited knowledge I do not know what!
Anyone else succeeded in getting this to work on a Pi4?

[mvallevand]

Yes it works as OK on an RPi4. Did you install with the deb installer with apt? If so you may have installed as root. Reboot and try

sudo dpkg -i nextpvr-helper.deb

and it might get you going.

Martin

[Heifer]

Hi Martin
Comforting to know it will run on a Pi4 - which is what I suspected. Although in my case I am obviously doing something wrong - no surprise really as I am very flaky on Linux.

As per your suggestion Restarted Pi and ran sudo dpkg -i nextpvr-helper.deb
Attached doc shows output whilst this was running. (again I hope I have done this right and the zipped .odt does not cause issues)

I am still wondering whether there is an issue with installing dotnet using :
https://i.stack.imgur.com/6rmCA.png
Which, if my limited understanding of apt install is correct, should install dotnet on my Pi4 complete and in the right directories with all links/dependencies where they should be for NextPVR to find them.

BTW. to make my Install I followed:
https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?tid=60875
Everything seemed to go OK and only when I entered
sudo service nextpvr-server status did I find I was missing dotnet

Thanks for you help

Steve

[mvallevand]

A few of the steps in that linked guide are redundant. Have a look at the future page that I have ready https://github.com/emveepee/Testing/wiki/nextpvr-helper to upload to the wiki

The deb installer should install dotnet from a script. I am assuming you have installed curl since NextPVR exists but that might also be your problem.

Did you reboot when I asked that clears out the tmp folder. If not run

sudo rm /tmp/NPVR.zip
sudo rm /tmp/dotnet-install.sh

sudo dpkg -i nextpvr-helper.deb

If it doesn't work let me know what RPi4 OS you are you using and I will try it here.

Martin

[Heifer]

Thanks for the speedy reply.
I did not reboot per se as the Pi was shutdown- I started it again this evening which I assume would have removed NPVR.zip and dotnet-install.sh
I have just checked and neither are there.
However I'll run the commands again and then sudo dpkg -i nextpvr-helper.deb
See what happens and report back

Steve

[mvallevand]

If the files are not there then you may not have installed curl.

Martin

[Heifer]

Extract from my current /tmp directory
……

.font-unix
.ICE-unix
lu2278dba3.tmp
OSL_PIPE_1000_SingleOfficeIPC_959b7fc6b4ffae3e54963f331e3bf15
snap.curl
snap.firefox
snap.snapd-desktop-integration
systemd-private-014feb1966c64b9baaa7dc5d0e465251-bluetooth.service-9f9Prb
….
Which I presume means I have installed curl (remember I'm a noob!)

Steve

[mvallevand]

The files I want are are not there. Did you bother reading the wiki link I posted as it explains how to install curl.

Martin

[Heifer]

I was just reading that having tried your last set of suggestions - and still getting the same "no dotnet" response
My next step is to follow the steps on that link after first running
sudo apt purge nextpvr-helper
which I assume will put me back to square one? YES?

Thanks
Steve

[mvallevand]

What do you get when you type

curl --version

Martin