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sungshon / PimpMyStremio

Local add-on manager for Stremio
MIT License
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Follow this if you are having problems in installing PMS on windows #93

Open The-DarkMatter opened 3 years ago

The-DarkMatter commented 3 years ago

I recently got to know about this awesome thing. Unfortunately, when I tried installing it on my Windows 10 PC using the x64 executable file from the releases, it didn't install (It showed checking for updates on a cmd window and closed automatically). After digging in the issues section, I found that the developer has mentioned many times to use --verbose and check whats the issue. When I tried that, it started installing and its working now. So, if you are facing this problem and not able to install PMS using its exe file, follow these steps:

  1. Extract PimpMyStremio.exe file on a known location. Eg. C:\
  2. Open Command Prompt on that folder by Shift+RMB (Right Mouse Button). If you can't do this, manually change the folder in your cmd window to the folder where you placed that exe file in the previous step.
  3. Put command PimpMyStremio.exe --verbose then press enter key
  4. It will start installing, firewall popup may come, allow it. The browser will open up.

I would request @sungshon to please add this to your guide. For you this may be a silly thing but not for all. And thank you so much for making this.

sleeyax commented 3 years ago

This sounds more like a bug than intended behaviour to me. Verbose is supposed to be for debugging only and should not have an effect on PMS install/startup

sleeyax commented 3 years ago

I think you just installed PMS incorrectly from the start. You have to do step 1 to begin with. Then if you just entered PimpMyStremio.exe in cmd (or double click the exe I think) it would've worked too.

The-DarkMatter commented 3 years ago

I think you just installed PMS incorrectly from the start. You have to do step 1 to begin with. Then if you just entered PimpMyStremio.exe in cmd (or double click the exe I think) it would've worked too.

Double-clicking or just putting PimpMyStremio.exe on cmd didn't work for me. Although I tried the latter only once but double-click to open was done multiple times, even deleted the empty folder which was created in %appdata%every time I ran the installer.

AktasC commented 3 years ago

Hello guys,

So I recently uninstalled PMS and since then reinstalling / using it is pretty much impossible.
This is what I get everytime I try to run it, whether it's with CLI or GUI :

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Before that, downloading any addon would result in an infinite loop thus the uninstall.
I also deleted %appdata%/PimpMyStremio (empty folder) but this didn't change a thing.

Edit : After restarting Windows everything works fine ...