Total Newbie needs help

[shemehaz]

Hi guys I'm totally new to raspberry projects.
I wish to make a KTV machine with it.
I tried to do it by myself make an environment but always endup with errors as soon as I try to open "pikaraoke"
that's the error I have :
(pikaraoke) pikaraoke@PiKaraoke:~ $ pikaraoke
[2025-12-13 17:00:02] INFO: Fetching available songs in: /home/pikaraoke/pikaraoke-songs/
[2025-12-13 17:00:02] INFO: Upgrading youtube-dl, current version: 2025.12.08
[2025-12-13 17:00:03] INFO: Latest version: stable@2025.12.08 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
yt-dlp is up to date (stable@2025.12.08 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp)
[2025-12-13 17:00:03] INFO: Done. Installed version: 2025.12.08

[ERROR] Error starting splash screen. See next line for output:`

Message: Unable to obtain driver for chrome; For documentation on this error, please visit: https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/troubleshooting/errors/driver_location

I must have messed up somewhere, I tried to find the solution but my knowledge isn't good enough.
If someone have a solution, or have tutorial that is very detailed on each steps to follow it would nice.

Thanks a lot guys

[vicwomg]

It seems like an issue with chrome and chromedriver. Did you install the following?

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg -y
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser -y
sudo apt-get install chromium-chromedriver -y
sudo curl -fsSL https://deno.land/x/install/install.sh | sh

[shemehaz]

Hey sorry for the late answer.

This is from my environement
(venv) pikaraoke@PiKaraoke:~ $ which chromedriver
/usr/bin/chromedriver

(venv) pikaraoke@PiKaraoke:~ $ sudo apt-get install chromium-chromedriver -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package chromium-chromedriver

From root I think
pikaraoke@PiKaraoke:~ $ which chromedriver
/usr/bin/chromedriver
pikaraoke@PiKaraoke:~ $ sudo apt-get install chromium-chromedriver -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package chromium-chromedriver

[shemehaz]

same issue with that one.
pikaraoke@PiKaraoke:~ $ sudo apt-get install chromium-browser -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package chromium-browser 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 'chromium-browser' has no installation candidate

I should probably install with a different method I think

[Burlesco70]

Hi there, I'm having exactly the same issue.
Following the given instructions I cannot run pikaraoke.

Using last Raspberry Pi OS Debian version13 64bit, when

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser -y

I got
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package chromium-browser 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 'chromium-browser' has no installation candidate

when

sudo apt-get install chromium-chromedriver -y

I got
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package chromium-chromedriver

and running pikaraoke

pikaraoke -l 1
[2025-12-28 20:37:23] DEBUG: IP address (for QR code and splash screen): 192.168.1.21
[2025-12-28 20:37:23] DEBUG:

additional_ytdl_args: None
avsync: 0
bg_music_path: /home/pi/venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pikaraoke/static/music/
bg_music_volume: 0.3
bg_video_path: /home/pi/venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pikaraoke/static/video/night_sea.mp4
buffer_size: 150
cdg_pixel_scaling: False
complete_transcode_before_play: False
config_file_path: config.ini
disable_bg_music: False
disable_bg_video: False
disable_score: False
download_path: /home/pi/pikaraoke-songs/
ffmpeg_version: 7.1.3-0+deb13u1+rpt1
hide_notifications: False
hide_overlay: False
hide_splash_screen: False
hide_url: False
high_quality: False
ip: 192.168.1.21
is_raspberry_pi: True
is_transpose_enabled: True
limit_user_songs_by: 0
log_level: 1
logo_path: /home/pi/venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pikaraoke/logo.png
normalize_audio: False
os_version: #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.12.47-1+rpt1 (2025-09-16)
platform: Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.0
port: 5555
prefer_hostname: False
screensaver_timeout: 300
splash_delay: 2
supports_hardware_h264_encoding: True
url: http://192.168.1.21:5555
url_override: None
volume: 0.85
youtubedl_path: yt-dlp
youtubedl_proxy: None
youtubedl_version: 2025.12.08

[2025-12-28 20:37:23] INFO: Fetching available songs in: /home/pi/pikaraoke-songs/
[2025-12-28 20:37:23] DEBUG: Generating URL QR code
[2025-12-28 20:37:23] INFO: Upgrading youtube-dl, current version: 2025.12.08
[2025-12-28 20:37:23] INFO: Latest version: stable@2025.12.08 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
yt-dlp is up to date (stable@2025.12.08 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp)
[2025-12-28 20:37:24] INFO: Done. Installed version: 2025.12.08
[2025-12-28 20:37:24] DEBUG: Skipping Selenium Manager; path to chrome driver specified in Service class: /usr/bin/chromedriver

[ERROR] Error starting splash screen. See next line for output:`

Message: Unable to obtain driver for chrome; For documentation on this error, please visit: https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/troubleshooting/errors/driver_location

[vicwomg]

These messages seem to indicate that chromium-browser is no longer available from apt on raspberry pi.

Doing some research this morning, I can see that it's possible the name changed.

Does sudo apt install chromium then sudo apt install chromium-driver work?

[Burlesco70]

System said that chromium was already installed.
After installing chromium-driver, pikaraoke was able to start.

Thanks for the support!