Error with pip3 updating youtube-dl

[BentWrench]

Hello All,

My post seems to be a duplicate of [BUG] #402
#402

TL;DR: Pi 1.51 has a bug that will stop Pi Karaoke from launching due to the failure of the youtube-dl update. If you then install into the venv (virtual environment for Python) the youtube-dl update works, but launching using the autostart file doesn't seem to work. A work-around is setting Pi Karaoke up as a service, but that makes it difficult to reboot or shutdown the Pi.

I had a lot of issues resolving this problem. I tried setting up the venv and then using autostart to launch Pi Karaoke, but that didn't work for some reason. I setup the script and auto launch file.

#!/bin/sh
source /home/pi/.venv/bin/activate
pikaraoke

and

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Pikaraoke
Exec=/home/pi/launch-pikaraoke-venv.sh

I can launch it from a terminal with the commands:

source /home/pi/.venv/bin/activate and pikaraoke but they won't launch from the launch-pikaraoke-venc.sh script.

I was able to setup Pi Karaoke in venv as a service. Below is the contents of my service file. It will launch Pi Karaoke on the desktop, so if you are connecting your Pi to a TV or monitor, it will load full screen after it boots to the desktop. It will successfully update youtube downloader. I do not use headless mode, if you do, copy the service file from [BUG] #402.

To install this, create a file named pikaraoke.service, copy it to the /etc/systemd/service/ folder, and then enable auto start of the service with sudo systemctl enable pikaraoke.service. The downside to running as a service, the Shutdown and Reboot commands from the web interface don't work anymore.

Start copying at the next line:

[Unit]
Description=pikaraoke
After=graphical.target

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/home/pi/.venv/
Type=simple
ExecStart=/home/pi/.venv/bin/python /home/pi/.venv/bin/pikaraoke --download-path /home/pi/pikaraoke-songs --volume 0.90
User=pi
Group=pi
Environment="PATH=$PATH:/home/pi/.venv/bin:/home/pi/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages:/usr/bin:/user/sbin"
Environment="DISPLAY=:0"
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=45

[Install]
WantedBy=graphical.target

End copying at the line above.

Here is my original post about the youtube downloader error breaking Pi Karaoke:
I am getting an error in Pi Karaoke 1.51 when it launches. I use this Pi 4 only for Pi Karaoke and it is set to auto start. When I installed it, I used the option to not use a venv for Python.

When I try to launch I get this error below. Should I just re-install using the venv option?

pi@pikaraoke:~ $ pikaraoke
[2024-10-27 11:04:01] INFO: Fetching available songs in: /home/pi/pikaraoke-songs/
[2024-10-27 11:04:02] INFO: Upgrading youtube-dl, current version: 2024.10.07
[2024-10-27 11:04:04] INFO: Current version: [email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Latest version: [email protected] from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
ERROR: You installed yt-dlp with pip or using the wheel from PyPi; Use that to update

[2024-10-27 11:04:04] INFO: Attempting youtube-dl upgrade via pip3...
error: externally-managed-environment

× This environment is externally managed
╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try apt install
python3-xyz, where xyz is the package you are trying to
install.

If you wish to install a non-Debian-packaged Python package,
create a virtual environment using python3 -m venv path/to/venv.
Then use path/to/venv/bin/python and path/to/venv/bin/pip. Make
sure you have python3-full installed.

For more information visit http://rptl.io/venv

note: If you believe this is a mistake, please contact your Python installation or OS distribution provider. You can override this, at the risk of breaking your Python installation or OS, by passing --break-system-packages.
hint: See PEP 668 for the detailed specification.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/pi/.local/bin/pikaraoke", line 8, in
sys.exit(main())
^^^^^^
File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pikaraoke/app.py", line 910, in main
k.upgrade_youtubedl()
File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pikaraoke/karaoke.py", line 251, in upgrade_youtubedl
output = check_output(["pip3", "install", "--upgrade", "yt-dlp"]).decode("utf8")
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/subprocess.py", line 466, in check_output
return run(*popenargs, stdout=PIPE, timeout=timeout, check=True,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/subprocess.py", line 571, in run
raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['pip3', 'install', '--upgrade', 'yt-dlp']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
pi@pikaraoke:~ $

[vicwomg]

Fixed in 1.5.2 https://github.com/vicwomg/pikaraoke/releases/tag/1.5.2

[BentWrench]

For the issue where pikaraoke doesn't auto start from the desktop file and sh script, I made one small change to the script and now it works.

#!/bin/sh
source /home/pi/.venv/bin/activate
pikaraoke

Change to

#!/bin/sh
. /home/pi/.venv/bin/activate
pikaraoke

Reason: sh doesn't have the source command, bash does, and changing source to . fixes that.