At the time Daryl’s incident occurred, the StTammany Ratflector was offline while I was getting the operating system upgraded to the current version. The jump from Debian Jesse to Buster failed and I ended up having to re-image the SD card and completely rebuild the required additional software add-on packages required by D-Rats. I did not finish the repair until midday the following day.
Most of us running D-Rats on Raspberry Pi’s have been doing so for some time. Stepping through the various beta updates has been a simple process because all the required support software was already loaded when we did the initial install. For someone doing a fresh install, it can be a real bear because the additional software needed have to be added one by one with a series of sudo apt commands. Without those added items, the program will not run. So I don’t have to recreate the wheel here, the items needed can be found in the document “Drat Ratflector on a Raspberry Pi v3.pdf”. Even if you don’t plan to operate a Ratflector, the added packages are still required for the software to run on a Pi. This is not an issue for those running under Windows.
Cordially,
Glen P. Strecker
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Glen Strecker