installer on latest raspian lite

[tim-moody]

Error: Unable to upgrade Raspberry Pi firmware

if I try it manually I get

root@raspberrypi:~# rpi-update
-su: rpi-update: command not found

[wegunterjr]

I am getting the Unable to update after running
curl -fsS https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rachelproject/rachelpiOS/master/installer.py | python

I can run rpi-update, but have to do:
sudo rpi-update

[wegunterjr]

My solution had to do with having a bad source list in
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/
I removed it, and the update continued.
Also, try
sudo apt-get update
and
sudo apt-get upgrade
That is most of what rpi-update is doing.
That might get you an update that contains rpi-update.
It really depends on what version of raspbian you are running. as well.

[wegunterjr]

wait, just looked again, why are you root?

[tim-moody]

maybe I have habits from fedora. are you saying I can't update firmware as root?

[wegunterjr]

not necessarily. I think the first question is what version of raspbian are you running?
If it's an older version, try this:
sudo apt-get install rpi-update
I think the focus of raspberry pi use is to stay in the default or non-root login, but maybe it's just that your version doesn't have it installed.

[tim-moody]

latest - 8.6

[tim-moody]

I also use lite rather than full as I like servers to be headless

[tim-moody]

I started over with a fresh https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite_latest (2016-09-23) and this time ran everything as the user pi.
curl -fsS https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rachelproject/rachelpiOS/master/installer.py | python (still as user pi)

I get

Error: Unable to upgrade Raspberry Pi firmware

If I comment out that line in the installer I get to

Error: Unable to set iptables MASQUERADE on eth0

(N.B. I am logged in over ssh to eth0 if that matters.)

[needlestack]

Yeah, it looks like Raspbian has changed enough since this release that we need to redo some things. If you want a working RACHEL-Pi build, you might try starting with one of the pre-built versions here and then modifying from there.

[needlestack]

Alternately, if you want to build from the script, you can start with 2016-05-27-raspbian-jessie. And of course, patches to bring the script up to work with more current versions are welcome :)

[tim-moody]

I can pretty much make the current script work, but I have to comment out some lines, which don't seem to be needed anyway. Just wanted to report the problem. I don't really want to download a 32G or 64G image to get mostly what I already have downloaded.

[needlestack]

Good point. This has come up before -- so I've added it as an issue for our next release

[tim-moody]

Is captive portal supposed to work with this installer? I don't see that it does. The redirect php and 2 shtml files get installed with the clone of the contentshell, but I don't see any of the iptables rules that are in the rachelplus code except for the nat and standard gateway rules.