AllSky software installation failed

[42-Stefan]

Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5 4GB
RPi-HQ-camera

on the command -> tail -n 4 /proc/cpuinfo :
Hardware: BCM2835
Revision: c03115
Serial: 10000000ff82110c

Raspberry Pi OS with desktop
Release date: October 10th 2023
System: 32-bit
Kernel version: 6.1
Debian version: 12 (bookworm)

Bug Description

Hi, I'm new to Github and also making my first experience with the Raspberry Pi.
I'm on loan for everything this is about.
I would like to get an AllSkyCam up and running, but am failing with the AllSky software installation.

The OS installation works. After OS installation I always make an update with:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
That works also well.
Then I download the software from Github and start the installation.
But the installation aborts every time with errors like this:

*** Welcome to the Allsky Installer! ***

• RPi camera found.
• Using RPi camera.
• Size of current swap (100 MB) is sufficient; no change needed.
  mount: (hint) your fstab has been modified, but systemd still uses
  the old version; use 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload.
• /home/sttie/allsky/tmp is now in memory.
  *** NOTICE:
• Installing the web server.
• Installing dependencies.
• Preparing Allsky commands.

*** ERROR:
Compile failed

• The full log file is in /home/sttie/allsky/config/installation_logs/make_all.log
  Log file content:
  make[1]: Entering directory '/home/sttie/allsky/src'
  Building capture_ZWO.o ...
  cc1plus: error: '-mfloat-abi=hard': selected architecture lacks an FPU
  make[1]: *** [Makefile:131: capture_ZWO.o] Error 1
  make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/sttie/allsky/src'
  make: *** [Makefile:24: all] Error 2

I also tried Bookworm 64bit lite, the result was:
…

• Installing the web server.
• Installing dependencies.
• Preparing Allsky commands.
• Modifying locations for WebUI.
• Setting up WebUI options and default settings for RPi cameras.
• Making new settings file '/home/sttie/allsky/config/settings.json'.
• Keeping 'en_GB.UTF-8' locale.
• Setting permissions on /var/log/allsky.log and /var/log/allskyperiodic.log.
  Failed to restart rsyslog.service: Unit rsyslog.service not found.
• Installing PHP modules.
• Installing other PHP dependencies.
• Installing Python_dependencies:
• === Package # 1 of 15: [numpy>=1.25.0]

*** ERROR
Python_dependencies [numpy>=1.25.0] failed

• The full log file is in /home/sttie/allsky/config/installation_logs/Python_dependencies.1.log
  content of the file is:

sttie@pi:~/allsky/config/installation_logs $ nano Python_dependencies.1.log
GNU nano 7.2 Python_dependencies.1.log
error: externally-managed-environment

× This environment is externally managed
╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try apt install
python3-xyz, where xyz is the package you are trying to
install.

If you wish to install a non-Debian-packaged Python package,
create a virtual environment using python3 -m venv path/to/venv.
Then use path/to/venv/bin/python and path/to/venv/bin/pip. Make
sure you have python3-full installed.
For more information visit http://rptl.io/venv

note: If you believe this is a mistake, please contact your Python installation>
hint: See PEP 668 for the detailed specification.

Do I need to try any other OS version?
Would be great if somebody could help me.
Please consider I’am a very beginner.
Thank you! Stefan

[Markh129]

I have the same problem. New Pi4b and new install of Pi OS. HElp !

[Markh129]

I tried another install and got further, but it still crashed. Now I get as far as Python stuff and it stops at #11. Here is the log file. Thanks for any help.
Mark
Python_dependencies.11.log

[Markh129]

Ok, tried to reinstall and all went well. Sorry for the trouble.

[Alex-developer]

Bookworm isnt supported yet, We have a release in testing that supports Bookworm so you can wait for that, hopefully wont be too long or use Bullseye in the emantime

Cheers

Alex

[EricClaeys]

@Markh129, would you please run

cat /etc/os.release
uname -a

on your Bookworm system and let me know the results? It'll help us support Bookworm.
Thanks - Eric

[EricClaeys]

@Alex-developer, I think we should update the "master" install.sh to check for Bookworm, and print a message and exit. Once Point Release 4 is out that check will go away.
Agree?

[Alex-developer]

@Alex-developer, I think we should update the "master" install.sh to check for Bookworm, and print a message and exit. Once Point Release 4 is out that check will go away. Agree?

Excellent idea :-)

[42-Stefan]

hello, I tried a new OS version:

Raspberry Pi OS (Legacy) with desktop
• Release date: May 3rd 2023
• System: 32-bit
• Kernel version: 6.1
• Debian version: 11 (bullseye)
• Size: 872MB

after installation I made the updates as before.
I changed some points in the config.
-> Interface options -> I1 Legacy Camera -> Enable
-> Performance Options -> P4 Fan -> GPIO 14 -> 60°C

I started the installation, camera was found.
I confirmed all the points at the beginning of the installation.

Success! The issue is solved. Thank you!

[EricClaeys]

Good to hear!