Cannot install Docker on Raspberry Pi2 with OSMC

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Hi there,
recently I couldn’t start osmc for some strange error and I had to make the system new.
I installed version 20200204 and then tried to install docker as described here with the convenience script exactly as I did beginning of the year.

Unfortunately that does not work. It shows the error:

osmc@pimedia:~$ curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
osmc@pimedia:~$ sudo sh get-docker.sh
# Executing docker install script, commit: 1b02882d63b9cfc484ad6b0180171c679cfe0f3a

ERROR: Unsupported distribution 'osmc'

Actually I don’t understand how that failure can occure because it worked last time and looking through the script I find:

if [ -r /etc/debian_version ] && [ "$lsb_dist" != "ubuntu" ] && [ "$lsb_dist" != "raspbian" ]; then
				if [ "$lsb_dist" = "osmc" ]; then
					# OSMC runs Raspbian
					lsb_dist=raspbian

I hope someone can help? Is there lately a failure in the script? or is there a workaround?

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The code is a bit iffy WRT OSMC. The block of code you highlight is only run if this check:succeeds:

    # Check for lsb_release command existence, it usually exists in forked distros
    if command_exists lsb_release; then

but the whole premise is questionable (as is the assertion that “OSMC runs Raspbian”). On my installation of OSMC (installed from a 2020.01 image), there is no lsb_release command, so the lsb_dist=raspbian line is never entered.

The least-hassle workaround is to install the lsb-release package – but the the real problem is with the shell script.

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OSMC is not based on Raspbian for any model other than 0/1

6

For a while, I thought we should implement lsb_release but thought the needed upstream packages were quite heavy.

This doesn’t seem to be the case, so I think we should:

  • Depend on lsb_release in base-files-osmc
  • Submit a PR to Docker so that we only use raspbian if osmcdev=rbp1

Thoughts?

Sam

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If instaling the lsb-release package is actually useful then fine, but not simply to make a workaround for Docker code.

Absolutely, and OSMC needs to be treated as Debian, or it’ll fall though their logic.

(BTW, the Docker repo does seem to have Debian armhf code.)

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Yes, apart from on Pi0/1 where we want to identify as Raspbian.

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Hi,
thanks for your fast reply. That would be great if it will work. I really like OSMC because of the ability to install many other programs. I am running some software like OpenHAB in parallel to OSMC and found problems during OSMC updates when not running it in docker.

So will it work if I install lsb-release? Or is there a better short term workaround?
Actually I had the thing up and running from beginning of this year until my SD-card crashed :-(. I took notes on what I did, but obvioulsy missed an important part.

10

Running OSMC and Openhab on a rpi ? that pretty heavy for the poor rpi

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any progress here?

Heavy? OpenHAB and OSMC run perfectly in parallel. Never saw any temperature problems or slow reaction.

12

Btw: just installing lsb-release package helped. I was able to install docker and then openahb. Seems to run fine and stable.
Finally my wife is happy and I can control my home by voice once again.

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Ok so there is nothing really required from OSMC?

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Hi

Hopefully the issue is now addressed with the following commit:

I’d appreciate it if you could test this and provide feedback before we potentially release this as an update to other users. To test this update:

  1. Login via the command line
  2. Edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list
  3. Add the following line: deb http://apt.osmc.tv stretch-devel main
  4. Run the following commands to update: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade && reboot
  5. Your system should have have received the update.

Please see if the issue is resolved.

I also recommend you edit /etc/apt/sources.list again and remove the line that you added after updating. This will return you to the normal update channel.

15

Any news about docker’s installation script? lsb-release package is the only thing needed?
Thanks for your reply

16

Have you tried it? (lsb-release is installed on my Pi3.)

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For me lsb-release was the only thing needed to make the docker installation script working.
I followed that instruction: Install Docker Engine on Debian
Unfortunately I couldn’t try above fix. I have only one Raspi, which is running OpenHAB for controlling my home by voice and OSMC with some extra programs added, to use the Harddisk attached also as a NAS. The content for OSMC automatically synchronises with my computer. So it is a work of minimum one day if something crashes to have a fresh installation and everything up and running.

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Just wonder how can I check that lsb-release is installed on current version of osmc? We are on buster now, aren’t we? the stretch-devel source @sam_nazarko provided above is still needed?
Thanks for reply

19

I don’t seem to be able ti install docker using their script… how did you do? Apart from adding lsb-release to osmc, I mean, which I did but then the docker daemon is not running… :thinking:

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dpkg -l lsb-release

No.

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ok thanks a lot! I have got lsb-release and I am trying to install docker but after I launch the script I got “dpkg returned an error code (1)” message.
If I try docker run hello-worldI got Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?
What should I do?

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  1. Post full logs.
  2. Show the full output from running the command.