I’ve gotten into a bit of a mess here on my Raspberry Pi 3B+, which has been running remote.it for a long time without issue. I found an unrelated issue on my Rpi yesterday which prevented updated packages from getting installed; I corrected that, but after running apt get update and apt get upgrade plus a reboot, I found on the next day that my remote.it services were down – attempts to connect from another system showed the service was offline.
So I got the message in Remote.it client stating:
Restore RaspberryPi: If you lost or deleted this device you can restore it by running the following command on the device.
I ssh’d into the Pi and ran the command given. This showed a lot of feedback, including “Remote.it CLI is detected on this system.” It says the Device Package cannot coexist with Remote.It CLI and to please uninstall before installing Device Package.
Okay, no problem. I ran apt purge remoteit, but then it says “package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal”
So I tried a reinstall with "sudo apt install remoteit”. This resulted in the message above regarding “CLI is detected on this system” again. It’s followed by Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1).
I’m kind of running in circles here. I could use some guidance on how to proceed.