Trouble Installing Emoncms on trixie

Emoncms Installation
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Hi

I’m in the process of a long overdue upgrade of my EmonCMS system (no Emonhub).

The hardware is a Raspberry Pi 4 with 160GB HDD connected via USB. I installed the latest pi os (trixie 64bit lite) using Raspberry Pi Imager. So far so good!

To install EmonCMS, I used the installation script from the web at “EmonCMS Install Scripts”. For the first attempt, I edited config.ini to exclude the Emonhub modules and for the second, after a clean reinstall of the OS, tried a complete EmonCMS install changing only the hostname in config.ini.

In both cases, when the install completed(?) I could start Emoncms and register a username. However the Admin page showed emoncms_mqtt, service-runner, (emonPiLCD & emonhub) not running correctly (see below). It was not possible to change their state using the Start / Disable buttons.

Admin
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Looking at /home/pi/main.sh.log seems that Mosquitto couldn’t be installed (see attached).

main.sh PART.txt (2.6 KB)

I’d be grateful if anyone could help.

Dunum

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So I asked Google Gemini and this is the answer it gave…

“Installation of Emoncms on Raspberry Pi OS Trixie (the upcoming Debian 13 release) often fails because the official Emoncms installation scripts are currently designed and tested for Debian 11 (Buster) and Debian 12 (Bookworm).

Because Trixie is the “testing” branch of Debian, it introduces several breaking changes that the Emoncms install scripts cannot yet handle automatically”

I guess reverting to Bookworm is the answer for now at least.

Dunum.

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No it isn`t, it is a stable release as of August last year. More AI FUD. It may well be true that the install scripts haven`t caught up with it yet.

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