Can't click on apps about pi-apps HOT 20 CLOSED

Thank you for the rather humorous video! I suggest running pi-apps in a terminal, then try clicking on apps again. See if any error messages appear in the terminal.

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Oh well

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I am pretty sure, pi-apps in installed

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Run ~/pi-apps/install

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hmmmm this might be useful:

Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security InRelease   
Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates InRelease [44.1 kB]        
Hit:5 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian bullseye InRelease                 
Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntudde-dev/stable/ubuntu lunar InRelease     
Hit:4 https://box64.debian.ryanfortner.dev/debian ./ InRelease                 
Hit:7 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/theofficialgman/flatpak-no-bwrap/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:8 https://adoptium.jfrog.io/artifactory/deb bullseye InRelease        
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
1 package can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see it.

gio: Unable to set metadata key

It says gio: Unable to set metadata key and just gets stuck

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if the gio command is hanging, then you likely have some corruption on your OS and that is very difficult to debug

I suggest re-installing your OS from scratch and make sure to always cleanly shutdown your system (ie: don't pull the plug on your pi)

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hmm so I made up my mind to reinstall my os but is there any way to keep all my data and preference of my current raspberry pi on the new os I will be installing?

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@theofficialgman I think you would be able to help me here.

So I have reinstalled m OS THREE TIMES !!! but still this problem is happening.

When I type
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Botspot/pi-apps/master/install | bash
The command just doesn't do anything and gets stuck. and if I try to manually install with
git clone https://github.com/Botspot/pi-apps && ~/pi-apps/install
it gets stuck on the following console output.

~/pi-apps/install
Cloning into 'pi-apps'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 23420, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1636/1636), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (234/234), done.
remote: Total 23420 (delta 1445), reused 1549 (delta 1400), pack-reused 21784
Receiving objects: 100% (23420/23420), 28.19 MiB | 3.22 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (15054/15054), done.
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian bullseye InRelease                 
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease                          
Get:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates InRelease [44.1 kB]        
Hit:5 https://apt.packages.shiftkey.dev/ubuntu any InRelease                   
Hit:6 https://mirror.mwt.me/shiftkey-desktop/deb any InRelease
Fetched 44.1 kB in 2s (25.7 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.

Preloading app list...

It gets stuck like the wget command and just doesn't do anything for like hours. Any solutions because I am loosing my mind now, I just wanted to install GitHub desktop and I can't even do that now 😭

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And since I have reinstalled my os, all of the previous working pi-apps are also gone now.And all of the wget logs are empty too.

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And I have also noticed that when the output get's stuck, the cpu usage goes down significantly and when I tried
wget -v https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Botspot/pi-apps/master/install
to see the log, It gets stuck on this:

--2023-05-14 14:40:42--  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Botspot/pi-apps/master/install
Resolving raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)... 2405:200:1607:2820:41::36, 49.44.79.236
Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)|2405:200:1607:2820:41::36|:443... failed: Connection timed out.
Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)|49.44.79.236|:443... 

Maybe this information could help you figure out the problem ¯_(ツ)_/¯

And tell me if my internet is bad:

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Your internet is bad though.
Are you in China or Russia or similar country that blocks major parts of the internet? raw.githubusercontent.com is being blocked and from my experience testing on a system in China the great firewall causes internet packets get forwarded randomly, timeout, or return in error which is causing the strange results.

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Your internet is bad though.
Are you in China or Russia or similar country that blocks major parts of the internet? raw.githubusercontent.com is being blocked and from my experience testing on a system in China the great firewall causes internet packets get forwarded randomly, timeout, or return in error which is causing the strange results.

I am in India, and one of my friend uses raspberry pi too so I told him to try installing pi-apps with the steps I used and he was able to successfully run and use the app.

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I'm not sure what else to say other than use a VPN. You are experiencing internet blocking. Pi-apps simply can't run without access to github/githubrawusercontent.

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What country's VPN would be suitable?

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any country in the EU (european union) or the USA. pretty much anyone that doesn't block the internet

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Phew, the issue is now resolved and I didn't even had to use a VPN!

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Phew, the issue is now resolved and I didn't even had to use a VPN!

What changed?

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Phew, the issue is now resolved and I didn't even had to use a VPN!

What changed?

Sorry for responding late but now, I am able to click on apps and they can successfully install. But there is still a delay between clicking the apps and their installer being opened. The delay is like 6 to 10 minutes but it is bearable as I dont mind slow things at all.

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Hi, i am facing the same issue, it gets stuck on "preloading apps list" and i also can't install it from wget it just gets stuck i installed by cloning github repository and running install script but now it has the same delay to open app details in the new window areound 7-9 minutes, is there a fix

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Ok i solved it, the issue was because my network was unable to access the raw.githubusercontent so i added the dns of cloudflare in my raspberry pi and it works now like a charm

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