New install problems

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I’m trying to move from OpenHAB 1.8 to OpenHAB 2 on a raspberry pi 3 with the latest image but I’m getting an error when running the apt-get install. I followed the steps under the linux install instructions on the OpenHAB 2 documentation and I updated the repositories and the public key without any issues. When I run the commend “sudo apt-get install openhab2-offline” though I get the following after download:

dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/openhab2-offline_2.0.0-20161017033125_all.deb (–unpack):
subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Am I doing something wrong or is there an issue with the archive server at the moment?

Thanks,
Matt

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There’s nothing that you’re doing wrong! There is indeed an issue which is in the process of being fixed (just waiting on a merge), try the following:

sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/openhab2/cache
sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/openhab2/tmp
sudo apt-get install openhab2-offline
sudo chown -R openhab:openhab /var/lib/openhab2
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Can verify this resolved the problem for me. RaspPi2

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Yeah that seems to have resolved the issue! Thanks for the help! Sorry for the delay, this was the first chance I could test it.

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@Duncan_Pullen, @mladams922, If you experience further problems you may want to make sure that the openhab user/group owns the folder, since we were the ones to create it not openhab:

sudo chown -R openhab:openhab /var/lib/openhab2
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I did that and it resolved some of the startup issues I was having as well. Now it seems to be running ok with the exception of a few things I need to troubleshoot.

Thanks for the help!