I can't get traccar 4.15 to work on Raspbian (64 bit)

bemeto20172 years ago

Before asking I have searched the forum and I have not found anything related.

I had an old version of traccar running for several years on a raspberry. Now I try to update to the latest version. I have read that now it only works with 64 bits and therefore I have installed Raspbian bullseye 64 bits on the rpi.

After I have installed traccar following the steps indicated in https://www.traccar.org/linux/ and traccar does not work

root@raspberrypi:/opt/traccar/jre/bin# systemctl is-active traccar  
activating

No log is generated since it does not start.

Can somebody help me?

Thanks in advance.

Anton Tananaev2 years ago

I have read that now it only works with 64 bits

Where did you read this information? And which version of Traccar did you install?

bemeto20172 years ago

I have read that information here: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/traccar-no-longer-compatible-with-my-raspberry-pi/406457

I have tried installing traccar-linux-64-4.15.zip and traccar-linux-arm-4.15.zip with the same result.

Anton Tananaev2 years ago

The traccar-linux-64 obviously won't work. It's not ARM architecture.

If ARM version doesn't work, you should just install Java separately and use it to run Traccar.

bemeto20172 years ago

I have tried to uninstall traccar, install java and then install traccar traccar-linux-arm-4.15.zip

The result is the same

root@raspberrypi:/home/sp# sudo apt-cache policy openjdk-17-jre openjdk-17-jdk
openjdk-17-jre:
  Installed: 17.0.2+8-1~deb11u1
  Candidate: 17.0.2+8-1~deb11u1
  Version table:
 *** 17.0.2+8-1~deb11u1 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main arm64 Packages
        500 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security/main arm64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
openjdk-17-jdk:
  Installed: 17.0.2+8-1~deb11u1
  Candidate: 17.0.2+8-1~deb11u1
  Version table:
 *** 17.0.2+8-1~deb11u1 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main arm64 Packages
        500 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security/main arm64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Anton Tananaev2 years ago

Have you configure Traccar to use the system Java?

bemeto20172 years ago

Thank you Anton. I got it to work for a bit but then I did something that broke it. I will continue to find out.

I'm not sure if 64 bits is really necessary in raspberry or it can still work with 32 bits.

jay2 years ago

The arm versions works great on rasberry pi