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I'd love to be able to drive PPT from the command-line. Specifically, I'm interested in a scenario like the following:

ppt-boot --img my-target.img --script my-script.sh

Where PPT boots my-target.img like a VM, executes my-script.sh in a bash shell, shuts down, and saves the resulting .img file.

How difficult would this be?

On Raspbian Buster using an RPI 4B, I ran the install command:

wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Botspot/Pi-Power-Tools/master/update | bash

It went on to install and download things - I didn't observe any error messages other than it couldn't find yad, but I hit the okay button to go ahead and install that.

Following install, no shortcut was made in the Accessories menu, or anywhere else. I thought maybe I needed to reboot the system, but that didn't make a difference. How do I fix this?

After installed with wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Botspot/Pi-Power-Tools/master/update | bash nothing appears in the menú.
Nothing also after rebooting.

When trying to drag and drop an IMG file from thunar into the IMG Mode screen, it shows that little hand that indicates it can be dropped, but nothing happens.

RonR has a problem with outdated versions of image-utils being shipped with Pi-Power-Tools.

Quoting RonR himself:

You should let users know that you are distributing outdated and modified versions of my Image File Utilities in opposition to my request and against my wishes.

Hi, could you please add Kali Linux to Pi Power Tools? Is it possible to add both without the desktop environment and with. This would allow a simple way to penetration test without installing Kali Linux on a new SD card.

Thanks

Repro steps

Boot 2020-05-27-raspios-buster-lite-armhf.img (the clean Raspberry Pi OS lite build) in IMG mode

Expected

Boot console shows a clean terminal

Actual

Something seems to be attempting to launch several lxde applications:

-bash: /usr/bin/startlxde-pi: No such file or directory
-bash: lxpanelctl: command not found
-bash: pcmanfm: command not found
-bash: /usr/bin/startlxde-pi: No such file or directory
-bash: lxpanelctl: command not found
-bash: /usr/bin/startlxde-pi: No such file or directory
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ -bash: pcmanfm: command not found
-bash: /usr/bin/startlxde-pi: No such file or directory
-bash: /usr/bin/startlxde-pi: No such file or directory

The -bash: /usr/bin/startlxde-pi: No such file or directory repeats infinitely every 5 seconds or so.

Does this application also support other (custom) OSes? And if so, what are the limits? (I'm searching for a tool that allows me to test my own OS on my rpi400)

Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye does not appear to be compatible with Pi Power Tools.

When I try to shrink an image it says I need to update the /etc/fstab file.

I am on Pi 3B+. Whenever I try to make a new img from sd card I get the error

mkfs.vfat: Partitions or virtual mappings on device '/dev/loop0', not making filesystem (use -I to override)

I am a newbie and not sure what I can do to fix this. I had it working once before but after a reinstall it has been acting up.

I would like to write an SD image on a mounted remote disk but it is not possible since there is no available space.
I guess the available space could not be detected on remote mounted devices.

So my images wouldn't boot. I ran img-mode manually, and here is it's output

Image file selected: /home/pi/Downloads/AmogOS.img
EOO
Boot
xfce4-terminal: Unknown option "-c"

Image file selected: /home/pi/Downloads/AmogOS.img`

The vdesktop window didnt even open.

if followed your tutoreal
i got in boot console

then in the window

In IMG mode, clicking the "View" button popped up a window titled "Error" and displaying the message, "/media/pi/pi-power-tools: No such file or directory."

But then, thinking it might help PPT to function, I manually created this folder. After that a pcmanfm file manager window popped up (as well as another window titled "Viewing IMG" and saying "Close this when you are finished viewing the files") open to this folder, but the folder was empty.

The virtual machine ("Boot" button) seemed to work well enough, although I think it was not using the folders for its files that your scripts designated for it. I downloaded the latest raspbian image in PPT before I did these things. And so far, these are the only functions of PPT that I tried.

This is on a recently bought RPi 4 Model B Rev 1.4 with the latest Raspberry Pi OS dated 2020-08-20.

One complication: For security purposes I created a second user as which I did all these things. This second user is in all the same groups as the pi user. I "retired" --- meaning I am no longer routinely using --- the pi user account. But I did not delete it, although I changed its password. Also, both these users are now required to provide their passwords to sudo.

I did not try to, and would rather not be required to, use Pi Power Tools as the default pi user. So just in case using my second user account is the cause of these errors, I hope you will be able to modify your code so that I can.

Loaded Pi-Power-Tools on a Pi 4/4.
Inserted uSD card from a working Pi (boots to desktop etc with no problems).
Run Pi-Power-Tools
Choose USB; select device ok
Click Boot
Boot Console opens - many lines of log etc.
Gets to {hostname} login:
Nothing happens after that whether I leave it, enter the actual password, or even the default 'raspberry' password.
What info would help debug this?

Today I noticed that PPT is unable to flash/download RPi OS Bullseye because the new download is in img.xz format.

This completely breaks the method PPT uses to obtain filename and size information, and there is no way to fix it without a major code refactor. If somebody else sees this issue and is willing to help, they are more than welcome to fork PPT and open a pull request. Looks like I'll have to flash Bullseye the old fashioned way... 😢

Hi, any chance of adding this for raspbian lite? or maybe it is, how to run on CLI?

regards.

Is it possible to make an easier way to free up space? Currently the only way I know off to increase the size of the virtual machine is to press the 1GB free button. Is it possible to make a user input field and allow a custom storage size to be entered to free up?

Thanks, slashtechno

Im trying to start up my sd card without rebooting using ppt and all that happens is it crashes.
nothing else.

It would be nice if we had supported alternative compression formats to zip (.xz, .gz etc) since some oses like the newer Twister OS distribute their images in xz compressed format.

Hi, trying to install Pi-Power tools but get following error:

OS: Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
OS architecture: 32-bit
Last updated Pi-Apps on: 07/27/2022
Latest Pi-Apps version: 07/27/2022
Kernel: armv7l 5.10.103-v7+
Device model: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3
Cpu name: Cortex-A53
Ram size: .92 GB
Raspberry Pi OS image version: 2019-07-10
Language: en_US.UTF-8

BEGINNING OF LOG FILE:

Will install these packages: yad systemd-container xserver-xephyr expect
Creating an empty apt-package to install the necessary apt packages...
It will be named: pi-apps-7144246a
Depends: expect, systemd-container, xserver-xephyr, yad
Running sudo apt update...
Hit:1 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster InRelease
Hit:2 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_14.x buster InRelease
Hit:3 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster InRelease
All packages are up to date.
apt update complete.
Installing the pi-apps-7144246a package...
The following additional packages will be installed:
expect tcl-expect
Suggested packages:
tk8.6
The following NEW packages will be installed:
expect pi-apps-7144246a tcl-expect
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Get:1 /home/pi/pi-apps-7144246a.deb pi-apps-7144246a all 1.0 [772 B]
Get:2 http://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/raspbian/raspbian buster/main armhf tcl-expect armhf 5.45.4-2 [121 kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/raspbian/raspbian buster/main armhf expect armhf 5.45.4-2 [166 kB]
Fetched 286 kB in 0s (673 kB/s)
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(Reading database ... 100%
(Reading database ... 120998 files and directories currently installed.)

Unpacking tcl-expect:armhf (5.45.4-2) ...

Unpacking expect (5.45.4-2) ...

Unpacking pi-apps-7144246a (1.0) ...

Apt finished.
Package installation complete.
Downloading update... bash: line 2: $'�[?25h�[0KDone': command not found

Failed to install Pi Power Tools!
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Is this a known error where there is a fix ??
Kind regards
Don...

Similarly to #8 I was wondering if it would be possible to be able to launch image files easily from the command line. I know Vdesktop is works through the command line but is quite complicated. Below I put how it could look like.
To boot an image (would launch VM shell and VM GUI):
pi-power-tools boot <img file>
To install a new image:
pi-power-tools install pi-os-full

here is the link for the newest available version currently (1.9.7, latest version available by patching: 1.9.9): https://archive.org/download/twister-osv-1-9-7.img/TwisterOSv1-9-7.img.xz

[Originally posted on Raspberry Pi Forums]

Repro steps

1. Run Pi Power Tools
2. Click IMG Mode
3. Click Download New
4. Click Raspberry Pi OS Lite
5. Click Download

Expected

Pi Power Tools downloads the IMG.

Actual

Pi Power Tools abruptly closes with no additional information

Hi Botspot.

It would be usefull to add "Boot with password" beside "Boot" button.
When automatically started pi-wizard set a password,
image booting do not work - stops at login.

Any way to add networking to the virtual machine? right now mine is stuck without an IP or network interface...

Hi

Did a fresh install of Pi Power Tools, tried backing up one of my images, but i get a error at the end saying Failed to Expand Image. Not sure whats causing this, my USB Drive has more then enough space.

Is there a way to fund this project? It's likely useful for my business, so I'd be interested in funding its development.

Thank you for making such an amazing and useful project!!!

However I am having trouble accessing USB devices connected to the pi when inside the container running the image file.

Specifically, I am trying to run Gqrx and other RTL-SDR apps from the PiSDR image... (https://github.com/luigifcruz/pisdr-image)

I have run the volk_profile command (inside the container) to detect and setup the RTL-SDR dongle, and that seemed to work, but when i run Gqrx or any other app that needs to access the SDR USB device from inside the container it tells me it can not open the device, and the device name and serial number do not show in the devices list like it should in any of the apps.

lsusb from inside the container sees the device, but for some reason apps can't access it.

I'm wondering if this is a permissions issue (do i need to run the apps with sudo) or is there some special "porting" we need to setup to pass through full USB functionality from inside the container?

Hope you can help, because this is the only way i can get all the SDR software to work on the latest Raspberry Pi OS.. by running the image file that someone has already done getting all the bugs out of the installation for those apps :-(

Also, another small issue... when running the OS in the container, I changed the default raspberry password, now the OS no longer boots to the desktop in the container, instead it goes to a prompt telling me the login was wrong, then i need to enter the user and new password and manually start the desktop with startx. How do I fix this so the new password is recognized in the container boot up process and it automatically boots to the desktop like it's supposed to?
Thanks

Hi I have a pi-400 running
$ uname -a
Linux larosa-400R64 5.10.92-v8+ #1514 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 17 17:39:38 GMT 2022 aarch64 GNU/Linux

And I'm trying to get the 32 bit full desk top in Pi-Power--Tools.

I just get a black screen with no error indicated.

I've ust tried to install and run on a new Pi 5.

Initially it complained becasue 'yad' could not be installed, but running the wget install snippet again claimed to have got past that.

If I run the PPT tool from the system menu and try to view an IMG it starts, fails and eventually closes the window. Runnig'vdesktop' directly results in

desktop /home/tim/2023-12-05-raspios-bookworm-arm64-full.img
Current config:
VDESKTOP_BOOT_MODE: gui
VDESKTOP_UMOUNT_ON_EXIT: yes
VDESKTOP_USERNAME: pi
VDESKTOP_PASSWORD: raspberry
VDESKTOP_AUTO_LOGIN: yes
VDESKTOP_MOUNTPOINT: /media/pi/vdesktop
VDESKTOP_ENABLE_ROOTMOUNT: yes
VDESKTOP_ENABLE_VIRGL: no
VDESKTOP_LOCAL_BINARIES: yes
VDESKTOP_NSPAWN_FLAGS: 

Message from Botspot: Comments >/dev/null. Just kidding! Questions or suggestions? https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?&t=251757
Given /home/tim/2023-12-05-raspios-bookworm-arm64-full.img, running in disk image mode.
Here's the loop device for it: /dev/loop2
cat: /media/pi/vdesktop/etc/machine-id: No such file or directory
Machine IDs equal. (b7125ef90146405da5c533b078e65049) Changing machine id to 1f541e58f8e167fb79327640659482f7
/home/tim/Pi-Power-Tools/vdesktop/vdesktop: line 368: /media/pi/vdesktop/etc/machine-id: No such file or directory
/home/tim/Pi-Power-Tools/vdesktop/vdesktop: line 369: /media/pi/vdesktop/var/lib/dbus/machine-id: No such file or directory

img should be mounted, but /media/pi/vdesktop/bin does not exist!
Hold on...
Cleaning up...
Almost done...
Done!

Advice welcomed

When I was testing this out, It worked great so far but one major problem I ran into is the official Raspberry Pi Display.
I made and img of the SD card and then did the shrink and tried doing the boot option.
This worked and the img booted. Then I went and tried to shutdown the booted img and it turned the raspberry pi official display off. Then when I tried launching it again the display didn't turn on. Next on the pi itself I did a reboot and the display turned back on. The weird part was that through VNC I could still see the desktop and everything but the official pi display was black.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hGUlwbbAMU27LAOQduHWGNhIlfA-Wq14/view?usp=sharing

Could you add support for Armbian. I use Orange Pi 3 LTS and I can't find similar tool for backuping and shrinking img of the SD card