FR24 install from PiAware fails

I am following the FR24 online instructions to install an FR24 feed for a PiAware system. The install script fails. System is a Pi4b with 4GB RAM, 32GB SD running the latest PiAware image. Here is the output (note, this is my first post so I have obfuscated the urls (with “xxx”) in this output in case it gets blocked).

pi@piaware:~ $ sudo bash -c “$(wget -O - xxx/install_fr24_rpi.sh)”
–2023-11-07 23:25:51-- xxx/install_fr24_rpi.sh
Resolving repo.feed.flightradar24 (xxx)… 52.217.232.80, 52.216.145.197, 52.217.0.166, …
Connecting to repo.feed.flightradar24 (xxx)|52.217.232.80|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 1428 (1.4K) [application/x-sh]
Saving to: ‘STDOUT’

  • 100%[=================================================>] 1.39K --.-KB/s in 0s

2023-11-07 23:25:51 (41.0 MB/s) - written to stdout [1428/1428]

Hit:1 xxx/mirror/raspbian/raspbian bullseye InRelease
Hit:2 xxx/adsb/piaware/files/packages bullseye InRelease
Hit:3 xxx/mirror/raspberrypi/debian bullseye InRelease
Reading package lists… Done
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
dirmngr is already the newest version (2.2.27-2+deb11u2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 109 not upgraded.
bash: line 29: /etc/apt/keyrings/flightradar24.gpg: No such file or directory
–2023-11-07 23:25:58-- xxx/flightradar24.pub
Resolving repo-feed.flightradar24 (repo-feed.flightradar24.com)… 104.16.59.181, 104.16.58.181, 104.16.60.181, …
Connecting to xxx (xxx)|104.16.59.181|:443… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 5287 (5.2K) [application/x-mspublisher]
Saving to: ‘STDOUT’

  • 0% 0 --.-KB/s in 0s

Cannot write to ‘-’ (Broken pipe).
pi@piaware:~ $

If FR24 installation script is giving problems, use following commands to directly download and install the latest fr24feed deb package:

wget http://repo-feed.flightradar24.com/rpi_binaries/fr24feed_1.0.44-0_armhf.deb  

sudo dpkg -i fr24feed_1.0.44-0_armhf.deb  

The 2nd commans above will install fr24feed package, and at the end will automatically start signup process. If it does not start signup procedure, use following command to start signup:

sudo fr24feed --signup  

NOTE:
(1) During signup if asked, do NOT select receiver DVB-T, select AVR (TCP).
(2) It may ask to accept “autoconfig (yes/no)”. Type yes.and press Enter Key.

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