Youtube Player in Pi Apps Store is not working it is not even opening

[ghost-gilbert]

Confirmations

• I searched for similar bug reports in https://github.com/Botspot/pi-apps/issues and found none were relevant.
• I tried updating Pi-Apps and the issue is still not fixed. How to update Pi-Apps?
• IMPORTANT: I promise to respond to comments on this issue and write a good bug report https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/how-to-write-good-bug-report/

What happened?

App is not opening it says "Desktop Entry contain no valid execution line"

Description

After I Installed the application from the Pi Apps when i click on the icon icon to pen it, it says "Desktop Entry contain no valid execution line".

What are your system specs (run the following command in your terminal)?

OS: Raspberry Pi OS Debian 13 Trixie

(Recommended) Error log? Terminal output? Debug messages?

[Botspot]

This should be an easy fix. To help us diagnose, please run this command:

cat ~/.local/share/applications/gtk-pipe-viewer.desktop

Then please paste into a comment what the output is.

[ghost-gilbert]

(base) ***@***.***:~ $ cat /home/raspberrypi/.local/share/applications/gtk-pipe-viewer.desktop [Desktop Entry] Name=YouTube Player Version=1.0 Comment=Search and play YouTube videos. Exec= Icon=gtk-pipe-viewer StartupNotify=false Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=AudioVideo;GTK;

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[Botspot]

Well with "Exec=" blank like that, it's definitely the cause of the problem. I'm not sure how it could have done that, but more information from you should make things clear.

Please go to pi-apps settings, open the log viewer, find the log from installing YouTube Player, open it, and copy everything into a comment here.

Also, run these commands and send back the output:

DIRECTORY=$HOME/pi-apps
sed 's|Exec=.*|Exec=bash -c "'${DIRECTORY}'/etc/terminal-run "\\\""app='\''YouTube Player'\'' '${DIRECTORY}'/api pipx_install yt-dlp"\\\"" '\''Updating yt-dlp...'\'' ; gtk-pipe-viewer"|g' /usr/local/share/applications/gtk-pipe-viewer.desktop > ~/.local/share/applications/gtk-pipe-viewer.desktop
cat ~/.local/share/applications/gtk-pipe-viewer.desktop