How-To Install WRP on DreamPi - Dreamcast web browsers on the modern web.

[Rolly]

Wow! Great news and great tutotial guys!
Can't wait to try this on my Dreamcast !
And time to spread the news

[cm1ck]

I'll be using this. Great tutorial!

[hawkzer0]

This is awesome! Def guna be trying this today. Thanks for the guide!

[99bubby]

Thank you for the tutorial. I can’t wait to try this out.


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[SMiTH]

deluxux, tbh I don't think you realize what you are capable of doing. I think you can easily create many awesome things for the community. This is a super cool tutorial and thanks to you and mr neo for it.

[Anthony817]

Ah he knows. I keep telling him how appreciated the Bleem project is he is working on. He said he has 900 more games to go through and test. So that is no small undertaking.

[Xiden]

https://github.com/tenox7/wrp/

A browser-in-browser "proxy" server that allows to use historical / vintage web browsers on the modern web. It works by rendering a web page in to a GIF or PNG image with clickable imagemap.
I suggest setting up SSH so you can copy/paste this right in save yourself lots of time.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... ccess/ssh/

First thing to do is "Expand The Filesystem" So we can have the full space of our SD card.

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sudo raspi-config

Pick Option 7 - Advanced Options
Pick Option 1 - Expand File System
Tab over to the Finish button and Reboot.

Next thing to do is update our Pi to the latest softwares.

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sudo apt update

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sudo apt upgrade

Now we are going to install the parts needed for a Graphical Desktop and the Chromium Web Browser

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sudo apt-get install xinit xserver-xorg raspberrypi-ui-mods chromium-browser

Now to download the WRP software

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wget https://github.com/tenox7/wrp/releases/download/4.5.1/wrp-arm-linux

Change it to be allowed to run as a program

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chmod +x wrp-arm-linux

Next edit the /etc/rc.local file with nano so this runs on boot of the Pi

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sudo nano /etc/rc.local

Add this line in under the other stuff but before the "exit 0"

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/home/pi/wrp-arm-linux -t png -g 640x480x32 &

Just have an empty line before and after the added line, my file looks like this

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# Print the IP address
_IP=$(hostname -I) || true
if [ "$_IP" ]; then
  printf "My IP address is %s\n" "$_IP"
fi

/home/pi/wrp-arm-linux -t png -g 640x480x32 &

exit 0

Press CTRL+X to exit, Press Y to save changes.

Reboot the Pi

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sudo reboot -n

Now learn what the IP of the Pi is write it down,

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hostname -I

For me its 192.168.1.226
So in my WebBrowser I go to http://192.168.1.226:8080

Thanks to mrneo240 for Telling me about this!
Not only do you have a nice new way to websurf on the Dreamcast the DreamPi is now ready for desktop use as well.
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You could further simplify the url by adding that ip to your dnsmasq config file and resolve it whatever url u want so you don't have to memorize the ip

[Xiden]

Tried doing this on my pi but unfortuneatly I couldn't it to work. All I get is exec: "google-chrome": executable file not found in $PATH errors when I try to enter a address.

I've tried to reinstall chromium but it fails to install again so not sure whats up.

[deluxux]

Did you "expand the filesystem" ? Dreampi is only using a 2gb partition even when you have a bigger sd card with about 300mb freespace...
Also did you update and upgrade? If you don't it might be sending you older packages.
Takes about 1gb because its installing the full desktop basically,

[Xiden]

Did you "expand the filesystem" ? Dreampi is only using a 2gb partition even when you have a bigger sd card with about 300mb freespace...
Also did you update and upgrade? If you don't it might be sending you older packages.
Takes about 1gb because its installing the full desktop basically,

I had to run sudo apt-get upgrade and then re-installed that package and now everything works