[Info-vax] DECUServe is a Hobbyist Chapter

[David Wade]

On 05/07/2020 17:43, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 7/5/2020 3:39 AM, David Wade wrote:
>> On 04/07/2020 21:49, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>> Stephen Hoffman  <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>>>> Fortran itself is starting to sprout a package manager with fpm, too:
>>>> https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm
>>>
>>> This is a disaster waiting to happen.  Notice how Python has turned into
>>> a hellish mass of library dependencies that are constantly changing?
>>
>> I am still in shock over this. It took longer to figure out 
>> dependancies that it did to build hardware. Error message says install 
>> python3-ini when you need python3.8-ini. yuk.
> 
> Did you try to get things manual instead of using pip?
> 
> Or was the dependencies declared wrong so pip failed?
> 
> Arne
> 
I was somewhat blindly installing this :-

https://github.com/lowobservable/oec

Which says it needs python 3.8. So I naively did :

"sudo apt-get install python3.8"

Then as suggested in the instructions I was following I did

python3.8 -m venv VIRTUALENV

which says it needs "python3.pip" so I did

"sudo apt-get install python3-pip"

which trundles away, and the repeat the previous command which fails 
with the same error...
.... a bit of googling turned up several folks with the same error and 
suggestions about updating repository sources when the real answer is to 
install python3.8-pip. I guess its obvious once you know, but was a pain 
at the time...

Dave