Thanks for the info. I'll pick up a 32 GB memory card next time I'm out. I tried a few things that haven't worked.
> chromium --disable-gpu
produced the error: "bash: chromium: command not found". I tried just chromium, and Chromium, and got the same thing.
> sudo apt-get install firefox
started to do stuff, then produced, "Package firefox is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source. E: Package 'firefox' has no installation candidate"
I went to Help -> Debian Reference to check the distro, and it brought up a webpage in Chromium that I cannot read. I could make out the title "Debian Reference (version 2).
I went to Preferences -> Raspberry Pi Config -> Display and saw 3 options: Overscan (enabled), Pixel Doubling (disabled), and Screen Blanking (enabled). I figured maybe one of these was conflicting with hardware acceleration. I tried enabling Pixel Doubling, restarted per instructions, and found that all the icons/bars had quadrupled in size. Chromium still didn't work.
I went back to disable Pixel Doubling, and the window no longer fit on the screen. I could click the disable button, but had to tab down to the apply option that would no longer fit on screen. Since I couldn't see where I was tabbing, I had to do trial and error, counting different numbers of tab presses. Undoing this decision was less difficult than undoing Hardware Acceleration, but difficult enough to make me wary of blindly trying the other 2.
I went to Preferences -> Recommended Software and got "Error updating package data - E: repository 'http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspian buster InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value from 'testing' to 'oldoldstable'. W: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt_secure(8) man page for details". I don't know what this means.
In home/pi I see 2 .deb files, one titled "chromium-browser_88.0.4324.187-rpt1.armhf.deb" that is 98 MB, modified March 2021, accessed Feb 2022. This may be my original Chromium install file, but I don't know what to do with it.
I went to Add/Remove Software -> Internet, and saw a box checked for chromium_browser_92.0.4515.98~buster-rpt2. I'm considering unchecking this box to uninstall Chromium, then checking the box to reinstall. But, simpler things have gone very wrong, and I don't want to do anything this drastic until all else has failed.
I saw the box for Mozilla Firefox, and checked it to install it. I few status screens flicker by, I'm asked for my password, and a few more status screens flicker by. Then, nothing. Firefox does not appear to be installed. I go back to Add/Remove Software -> Internet and the box remains unchecked. Typing "firefox" at a command prompt does not work.
I did see a checked box for dillo, which purports to be a small and fast browser. Typing "dillo" at a command prompt brings up a browser that works slightly less badly than Chromium does. I saw other, unchecked boxes, for elinks, hv3, and midori, all listed as browsers. Are any of them worth trying?
> chromium --disable-gpu
produced the error: "bash: chromium: command not found". I tried just chromium, and Chromium, and got the same thing.
> sudo apt-get install firefox
started to do stuff, then produced, "Package firefox is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source. E: Package 'firefox' has no installation candidate"
I went to Help -> Debian Reference to check the distro, and it brought up a webpage in Chromium that I cannot read. I could make out the title "Debian Reference (version 2).
I went to Preferences -> Raspberry Pi Config -> Display and saw 3 options: Overscan (enabled), Pixel Doubling (disabled), and Screen Blanking (enabled). I figured maybe one of these was conflicting with hardware acceleration. I tried enabling Pixel Doubling, restarted per instructions, and found that all the icons/bars had quadrupled in size. Chromium still didn't work.
I went back to disable Pixel Doubling, and the window no longer fit on the screen. I could click the disable button, but had to tab down to the apply option that would no longer fit on screen. Since I couldn't see where I was tabbing, I had to do trial and error, counting different numbers of tab presses. Undoing this decision was less difficult than undoing Hardware Acceleration, but difficult enough to make me wary of blindly trying the other 2.
I went to Preferences -> Recommended Software and got "Error updating package data - E: repository 'http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspian buster InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value from 'testing' to 'oldoldstable'. W: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt_secure(8) man page for details". I don't know what this means.
In home/pi I see 2 .deb files, one titled "chromium-browser_88.0.4324.187-rpt1.armhf.deb" that is 98 MB, modified March 2021, accessed Feb 2022. This may be my original Chromium install file, but I don't know what to do with it.
I went to Add/Remove Software -> Internet, and saw a box checked for chromium_browser_92.0.4515.98~buster-rpt2. I'm considering unchecking this box to uninstall Chromium, then checking the box to reinstall. But, simpler things have gone very wrong, and I don't want to do anything this drastic until all else has failed.
I saw the box for Mozilla Firefox, and checked it to install it. I few status screens flicker by, I'm asked for my password, and a few more status screens flicker by. Then, nothing. Firefox does not appear to be installed. I go back to Add/Remove Software -> Internet and the box remains unchecked. Typing "firefox" at a command prompt does not work.
I did see a checked box for dillo, which purports to be a small and fast browser. Typing "dillo" at a command prompt brings up a browser that works slightly less badly than Chromium does. I saw other, unchecked boxes, for elinks, hv3, and midori, all listed as browsers. Are any of them worth trying?
Statistics: Posted by Isaac Hill — Sat Apr 19, 2025 8:22 pm