Running dietpi-software does nothing, neither does selecting the DietPi-Software option in dietpi-launcher. Can you help in troubleshooting this?
I’m on the latest version of DietPi. It worked fine when I first set the system up a couple of weeks ago.
Hi,
many thanks on your report. So you enter dietpi-software into command line and nothing happen? No further command line output? It just seems to hang?
Yes, no output and nothing happens. The terminal doesn’t hang though, I can still type in commands:
Same when I launch dietpi-launcher then choose DietPi-Software. The terminal flashes but nothing happens.
when this happened to me a long time ago it was because Dietpi-software had got corrupted, so i just downloaded a copy of the script
from GitHub
only i can’t remember when i was advice to copy it too.
yes indeed that would be my recommendation as well. It seems the file is broken. Therefore simple get a new copy from github.
Sorry, I’m new to Linux. How would I do that? Is it this file?
https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/blob/master/dietpi/dietpi-software
just do
rm /boot/dietpi/dietpi-software
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichaIng/DietPi/master/dietpi/dietpi-software -O /boot/dietpi/dietpi-software
Brilliant! Thanks very much for the help.
Incidentally, I opened dietpi-software in nano before replacing the file: it was blank.
well that’s a good explanation if the file was empty 