Fix shipped: v1.6.329 — OpenVPN users can install the media center now
Posted by tomspark
Quick fix, thanks to a report: if you use an OpenVPN provider (like PIA) instead of WireGuard, the Media Center install was wrongly forcing you to enter a 'WireGuard Private Key' — which OpenVPN providers don't give you — and wouldn't let you proceed. Fixed in v1.6.329: that field is now only required when you're actually using WireGuard. On OpenVPN, just your username and password is enough, like it should be. Auto-updates will carry it out over the next day, or grab it now with sudo sparkbox upgrade. If you're stuck on this right now and don't want to wait: since OpenVPN ignores that field anyway, you can type any placeholder into it to get past the form.
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Anoxion wrote:
hey i dunno if this is the right place for it but i cant get past the first step of the sparkbox download after i run the command i get an error "openssl is required for release signature verification but is not available. Install openssl and re-run. curl: (23) Failure writing output to destination, passed 4229 returned 0" I can't seem to get openssl to work on my zimaos server I know the zimaos appstore has nginx which i think does the same thing can i use that as a workaround somehow or do you know a way for me to get openssl to work?
tomspark wrote:
Nginx won't help here — it's a web server, not a crypto library. Openssl is the tool that verifies SparkBox's release signature for security. On ZimaOS, try opkg install openssl from the terminal, or check if your system has it pre-installed under a different name (which openssl). If that doesn't work, your ZimaOS version might need a package manager wrapper — what version are you running? Paste the output of cat /etc/os-release or uname -a and I can point you to the exact command.