EDL install on Raspberry Pi linux

[splitsec2]

You might want to update your comment on the EDL install section. I have just been going through the process of doing that on a Raspberry PI 3B and with Raspberry PI OS, and ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 the install of the requirements fails miserably unless you downgrade Python to 3.9. But 3.9 is not generally available as a current package.

I found https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70422866/how-to-create-a-venv-with-a-different-python-version which helped me along.

# Add the deadsnakes repository
me@mydevice:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa

# Update package lists
me@mydevice:~$ sudo apt update

# Install Python 3.9
me@mydevice:~$ sudo apt install python3.9

[droyholmes]

What OS did you finally complete on? Did you still create the venv or did you use the --break-environment command? I'm struggling through myself. Using a pi4b using PiOS lite, next I'll try Ubuntu Server.

I noticed the EDL guy has ready to go "live CD" images available, but I don't have a computer around with USB2 I don't think, and I'm assuming the live CDs don't work on Pi (due to arm).

[splitsec2]

I think I finally have it installed under Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS I installed python3.9 as per above and used venv.

I am only on a Pi3b with 1gb of RAM so I needed to configure a swap (the base install didn't have one configured).

I know I had to install some additional packages as I went along as they didn't seem to be preinstalled or included in the requirements.txt but I wasn't taking notes... I may run though the install again with a fresh image and make notes to post here if I get some spare time. But first I need to actually use the EDL tool and finish that project...

[droyholmes]

Okay so I used 20.04 server. Here is what I ran:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3.9
mkdir ~/.venvs
python3.9 -m venv ~/.venvs/myvenv
source ~/.venvs/myvenv/bin/activate
sudo apt install adb fastboot python3-dev python3-pip liblzma-dev git
sudo systemctl stop ModemManager
sudo systemctl disable ModemManager
sudo apt purge ModemManager
sudo apt install python3.9-dev
sudo apt install python3.9-pip
git clone https://github.com/bkerler/edl.git
cd edl
git submodule update --init --recursive
sudo cp Drivers/51-edl.rules /etc/udev/rules.d
sudo cp Drivers/50-android.rules /etc/udev/rules.d
python3.9 setup.py build
sudo python3.9 setup.py install
cd ~
mkdir ThinkSmartView
wget https://s3.wasabisys.com/filestash-buk/lenovo-thinksmart-view/CD-18781Y.200628.084.zip
sudo apt install unzip
unzip -j ~/CD-18781Y.200628.084.zip "CD-18781Y.200628.084/image/*" -d ~/ThinkSmartView/image
cd ThinkSmartView
wget https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/rom-release/LineageOS/15.1/starfire/lineage-15.1-20240531-UNOFFICIAL-starfire-recovery.img
pip3.9 install gdown
gdown 1m34JjwxukdH8Y5WEUCZuPSiyrQHrI6ke
wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/opengapps/files/arm/20220215/open_gapps-arm-8.1-pico-20220215.zip
~/edl/edl qfil ~/ThinkSmartView/image/rawprogram_unsparse.xml ~/ThinkSmartView/image/patch0.xml ~/ThinkSmartView/image --loader=/home/user/ThinkSmartView/image/prog_emmc_firehose_8953_ddr.mbn
pip3.9 install docopt
cd ~/edl
pip3.9 install -r requirements.txt
#maybe python3.9 setup.py build
#maybe sudo python3.9 setup.py install

1. gdown is a python script that can pull from google drive like a wget. The string following the command is the ID for the drive file
2. docopt seems to be the only thing missing. I believe after that I ran build and install again. I'm only solid on the command: order pip3.9 install docopt
3. I got messages about keystone and capstone missing and some other warnings, but they didn't seem to affect the running of EDL.
4. there are obvious things I did improperly and then had to correct, this is not cleaned up and by the end I was asleep and it was 0500 local. Also I'm new to linux command line.
5. Pickup instructions at step 2 of Flashing the image - linux

Hopefully if you know more about linux you can clean up and fill in there and future people can use it. It would be nice if we could post an image ready to go that people could just download and use, the EDL repository has a live cd, but i don't know how to navigate the proper licensing disclaimers.

These scripts assume your username/password is user/user

[pgale]

Thanks for your notes on this. I'll add a link to this discussion into the install guide.

[soarn]

I followed the steps from @droyholmes, and made some improvements that should eliminate the need for googling in the future.
I used a fresh install of Ubuntu Server 20.04.4 LTS on a Raspberry pi 4b. I'm not too familiar with how venv works, so we just do multiple apt installs and pip installs to maximize our coverage in an attempt to make sure that everything works right. Let me know if you have any questions and I'll do my best to help. FYI, don't bother trying to do this on raspbian, it will not work.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install pip python3.9 python3.9-venv python3.9-dev python3.9-pip unzip
mkdir ~/.venvs
python3.9 -m venv ~/.venvs/myvenv
sudo apt install pip python3.9 python3.9-venv python3.9-dev python3.9-pip python3-docopt python3-usb unzip
# From https://stackoverflow.com/a/65644846
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python3.9 get-pip.py
pip3.9 install gdown
sudo systemctl stop ModemManager && sudo systemctl disable ModemManager && sudo apt purge ModemManager
git clone https://github.com/bkerler/edl.git
cd edl
git submodule update --init --recursive
sudo python3.9 setup.py build
cd ~
mkdir ThinkSmartView
wget s3.wasabisys.com/filestash-buk/lenovo-thinksmart-view/CD-18781Y.200628.084.zip
unzip -j ~/CD-18781Y.200628.084.zip "CD-18781Y.200628.084/image/*" -d ~/ThinkSmartView/image
cd ThinkSmartView/
wget s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/rom-release/LineageOS/15.1/starfire/lineage-15.1-20240531-UNOFFICIAL-starfire-recovery.img
gdown 1m34JjwxukdH8Y5WEUCZuPSiyrQHrI6ke
wget sourceforge.net/projects/opengapps/files/arm/20220215/open_gapps-arm-8.1-pico-20220215.zip
cd ~/edl
pip3.9 install -r requirements.txt
cd ../
cd ThinkSmartView/
~/edl/edl qfil ~/ThinkSmartView/image/rawprogram_unsparse.xml ~/ThinkSmartView/image/patch0.xml ~/ThinkSmartView/image --loader=/home/pi/ThinkSmartView/image/prog_emmc_firehose_8953_ddr.mbn
~/edl/edl w aboot ~/ThinkSmartView/image/emmc_appsboot.mbn
~/edl/edl w abootbak ~/ThinkSmartView/image/emmc_appsboot.mbn
~/edl/edl w recovery ~/ThinkSmartView/lineage-15.1-20240531-UNOFFICIAL-starfire-recovery.img
adb sideload ~/ThinkSmartView/lineage-15.1-20240602-UNOFFICIAL-starfire.zip
adb sideload ~/ThinkSmartView/open_gapps-arm-8.1-pico-20220215.zip

[droyholmes]

Thanks for cleaning up and adding the lines I was missing. I have two notes:

1. I think the line where you should use gdown to download the actual lineage package:
   gdown 1m34JjwxukdH8Y5WEUCZuPSiyrQHrI6ke
   If that file ID changes things will break, but if you stick it after the line where you get the recovery you should be good.

2. Also, I think you missed the line to download the gapps pack:
   wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/opengapps/files/arm/20220215/open_gapps-arm-8.1-pico-20220215.zip
   That can go right after the gdown line.

I'll test with my next load up.
I have 4 waiting to get loaded up, still working on getting the first one doing what I want.

[soarn]

Fixed, thanks!

[jemplwd]

I've followed these directions as closely as possible, running on a Raspberry Pi 3 with a fresh install of Ubuntu; when I run EDL and connect the TSV (holding Vol up and Vol down, then applying power), I get this error:
DeviceClass - [LIB]: Couldn't get device configuration.
.DeviceClass

Eventually the Lenovo setup process starts. I've tried multiple USB cables and all of the USB ports. Any ideas for what I'm missing?

[droyholmes]

What Ubuntu version did you use? Any other deviations, other than the RPi 3?

[droyholmes]

I’ll try running through it on a different TVS tomorrow. Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef>

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[jemplwd]

Thanks. I also saw a discussion on the edl GitHub suggesting to use sudo when starting edl. I’ll report back if that works.

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[droyholmes]

What Ubuntu version did you use? Any other deviations, other than the RPi 3? Before you run the command beginning with ~/edl/edl qfil
( it is 6th line from the updated instructions from soarn, listed above) go back to pgale's instructions on the main page. Go to subsection "Flashing the Image-Linux" and do his steps in order, see if that is it. I realize we didn't incorporate his steps.

[jemplwd]

I'm using Ubuntu server 24.04.1.

I'm going to start with a clean install of that OS, there was some PATH strangeness when I first ran through and I'm not 100% sure that everything got placed where it needed to be; I did try again doing a "sudo edl..." and I ran in to a different error message so will start fresh and report back.

[droyholmes]

Try using 20.04 server

[jemplwd]

OK, will do. I see now that was the version referenced in the discussion.

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-- JE John Erickson

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[jemplwd]

Ok, I got everything going when I installed 20.04 (that's a saga in and of itself, but I won't bore you). I had to twiddle a couple of directories (for example, on the 4th time you run eel, there is a slash missing -- it says ~edl rather than ~/edl. I also used sudo on each of the edl entries.

Thanks for the help and all of the documentation (to Soarn as well)

[soarn]

Thanks for catching that, I went ahead and fixed it.

[droyholmes]

I’m working through and will update documentation. I am doing it now actually. Did you try download server 20.04 from Canonical and keep getting a sha256 hash not matching? Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef>

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[jemplwd]

I used the raspberry pi installer and selected 2020.4.5; There was an error early on because my PATH variable didn’t include the directory where the python programs installed. I don’t recall getting an error about the sha256 hash, though.

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-- JE John Erickson

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[markspar]

Using PI 4b+, downloaded ubuntu 20.04.05 LTS (raspberry pi imager, found unbuntu image there). All is well, but when doing the first installs, the PIP items are throwing errors:
sudo apt install pip python3.9 python3.9-venv python3.9-dev python3.9-pip unzip
pi@pidesktop:~$ sudo apt install pip python3.9 python3.9-venv python3.9-dev python3.9-pip unzip
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'python3-pip' instead of 'pip'
E: Unable to locate package python3.9-pip
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'python3.9-pip'

and once I removed that, I got this for the pip item:
pi@pidesktop:~$ sudo apt install pip
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'python3-pip' instead of 'pip'

and then later when installing running get-pip.py:
pi@pidesktop:~$ python3.9 get-pip.py
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting pip
Downloading pip-24.2-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (3.6 kB)
Downloading pip-24.2-py3-none-any.whl (1.8 MB)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1.8/1.8 MB 5.5 MB/s eta 0:00:00
WARNING: Error parsing dependencies of distro-info: Invalid version: '0.23ubuntu1'
WARNING: Error parsing dependencies of python-debian: Invalid version: '0.1.36ubuntu1'
Installing collected packages: pip
WARNING: The scripts pip, pip3 and pip3.9 are installed in '/home/pi/.local/bin' which is not on PATH.
Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
Successfully installed pip-24.2

(I added it to the path with a quick: export PATH=$PATH:/home/pi/.local/bin, will make it permanent later)

Finally, when running edl, it fires up and seems to be working (complains about missing keystone and capstone librarys, and no module named Cryptodome. Then waiting for device .... .... .... meanwhile I have booted the thinksmartview (pi up, usb cables connected, edb started, press and hold both volume buttons, plug in smartview, keep them pressed for ~5-7 seconds, screen stays black (maybe a quick flicker of a logo, not big red lenovo logo though). I've tried both black ports on pi (ports 3 and 4 I believe), and tried two usb-a to usb-c cables that work for power and data with other devices. What am I missing?

[markspar]

Had to install ADB somehow, just ran a sudo apt install adb. Got everything working great now!

[rlust]

Anything to add to the above instructions??

I am trying to install on pi4 with Ubuntu 20.04.5.

[markspar]

No, the fixes I had to make were only what I documented. It was amazingly easy, once I got the base image prepped, to do all 3 of my machines... worth the effort!

[rlust]

I am getting this error when running the edl command

~/ThinkSmartView$ ~/edl/edl qfil ~/ThinkSmartView/image/rawprogram_unsparse.xml ~/ThinkSmartView/image/patch0.xml ~/ThinkSmartView/image --loader=/home/pi/ThinkSmartView/image/prog_emmc_firehose_8953_ddr.mbn
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/ubuntu/edl/edl", line 137, in
from docopt import docopt
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'docopt'

[rlust]

I installed docopt with no errors.

pip3.9 install docopt
Requirement already satisfied: docopt in /home/ubuntu/.venvs/myvenv/lib/python3.9/site-packages (0.6.2)

[notice] A new release of pip is available: 23.0.1 -> 24.2
[notice] To update, run: pip install --upgrade pip

[jemplwd]

Are you getting an error on the pi when trying to connect? I was getting: DeviceClass - [LIB]: Couldn't get device configuration. .DeviceClass Using sudo when I ran edl cleared that up.

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-- JE John Erickson

On Sun, Sep 22, 2024 at 7:01 PM markspar ***@***.***> wrote: Using PI 4b+, downloaded ubuntu 20.04.05 LTS (raspberry pi imager, found unbuntu image there). All is well, but when doing the first installs, the PIP items are throwing errors: sudo apt install pip python3.9 python3.9-venv python3.9-dev python3.9-pip unzip ***@***.***:~$ sudo apt install pip python3.9 python3.9-venv python3.9-dev python3.9-pip unzip Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Note, selecting 'python3-pip' instead of 'pip' E: Unable to locate package python3.9-pip E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'python3.9-pip' and once I removed that, I got this for the pip item: ***@***.***:~$ sudo apt install pip Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Note, selecting 'python3-pip' instead of 'pip' and then later when installing running get-pip.py: ***@***.***:~$ python3.9 get-pip.py Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable Collecting pip Downloading pip-24.2-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (3.6 kB) Downloading pip-24.2-py3-none-any.whl (1.8 MB) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1.8/1.8 MB 5.5 MB/s eta 0:00:00 WARNING: Error parsing dependencies of distro-info: Invalid version: '0.23ubuntu1' WARNING: Error parsing dependencies of python-debian: Invalid version: '0.1.36ubuntu1' Installing collected packages: pip WARNING: The scripts pip, pip3 and pip3.9 are installed in '/home/pi/.local/bin' which is not on PATH. Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location. Successfully installed pip-24.2 (I added it to the path with a quick: export PATH=$PATH:/home/pi/.local/bin, will make it permanent later) Finally, when running edl, it fires up and seems to be working (complains about missing keystone and capstone librarys, and no module named Cryptodome. Then waiting for device .... .... .... meanwhile I have booted the thinksmartview (pi up, usb cables connected, edb started, press and hold both volume buttons, plug in smartview, keep them pressed for ~5-7 seconds, screen stays black (maybe a quick flicker of a logo, not big red lenovo logo though). I've tried both black ports on pi (ports 3 and 4 I believe), and tried two usb-a to usb-c cables that work for power and data with other devices. What am I missing? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#19 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/A2WOZ7NTDI5RRIR3CI2ATZDZX5K6FAVCNFSM6AAAAABMR5E276VHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43URDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHMYTANZSGA4DGMI> . You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: <pgale/lineage_15 .***@***.***>