It says Pi-Apps is not designed to be installed as root! Please try again as a regular user.

[MaxFlame123]

Confirmations

• I searched for similar bug reports in https://github.com/Botspot/pi-apps/issues and found none were relevant.
• I tried updating Pi-Apps and the issue is still not fixed. How to update Pi-Apps?
• IMPORTANT: I promise to respond to comments on this issue and write a good bug report https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/how-to-write-good-bug-report/

What happened?

Can't install pi apps

Description

Haven't fixed it it says that the pi apps isn't rooted and need to be a regular user

What are your system specs (run the following command in your terminal)?

Os Linux
Architecture O

(Recommended) Error log? Terminal output? Debug messages?

Pi-Apps is not designed to be installed as root! Please try again as a regular user.

[github-actions]

Hello there 👋
Thanks for submitting your first issue to the Pi-Apps project! We'll try to get back to you as soon as possible.
In the meantime, we encourage you join our Discord server, where you can ask any questions you might have.

Please respond as soon as possible if a Pi-Apps maintainer requests more information from you. Stale issues will be closed after a lengthy period of time with no response.

[Botspot]

Could you describe your operating system and device that you are trying to install Pi-Apps on? Does your operating system have a normal user account that is not the root account?
If you have been trying running the pi-apps install commands with sudo, have you tried running these commands without sudo?

[MaxFlame123]

I am using a android fire hd 8 tablet and it doesn't have a not rooted account On October 9, 2024, at 1:35 PM, Botspot ***@***.***> wrote: Could you describe your operating system and device that you are trying to install Pi-Apps on? Does your operating system have a normal user account that is not the root account?

[theofficialgman]

This is working as intended. Pi-Apps and many applications that can be installed in it are designed to be run as uuid 1000 (user level) and not uuid 0 (root level). This check is intentional and will not be adjusted.

The entire linux security and permission model revolves around uuid 1000 and 0 and any tertiary users created for particular processes (sudo, plugdev, kvm, etc)

If you want to use pi-apps (still unsupported for you since you are not using supported hardware) and the applications that can be installed with it you will need to create and operate pi-apps and its applications as a uuid 1000 (user level) user account.

[MaxFlame123]

Can you tell me how to make it a uuid 1000 (user level) user account

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On Wednesday, October 9, 2024, theofficialgman ***@***.***> wrote: This is working as intended. Pi-Apps and many applications that can be installed in it are designed to be run as uuid 1000 (user level) and not uuid 0 (root level). This check is intentional and will not be adjusted. If you want to use pi-apps (still unsupported for you since you are not using supported hardware <https://pi-apps.io/install/#supported-systems:>) and the applications that can be installed with it you will need to create and operate pi-apps and its applications as a uuid 1000 (user level) user account. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#2656 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/A5XV6VHX2BQCPQEIZY6ENCLZ2VFVTAVCNFSM6AAAAABPTZZVLWVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDIMBSGY4TONRXGQ> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[Botspot]

Can you tell me how to make it a uuid 1000 (user level) user account

That is a good question for chatgpt. https://talkai.info/chat/