Python problem - no setup.py

On Sat, 13 May 2017 12:04:18 +0100, Adrian declaimed the following:

And where did you PUT the download?

Are you IN the directory containing the downloaded files? Which, BTW, should probably NOT be a system directory.

In message , Dennis Lee Bieber writes

The download is in $HOME (as recommended)

Yes.

Running find on the pi finds many copies of setup.py, but they are all in /usr/lib, none of them are in $HOME.

Thanks

Adrian

So how did you download the files? Where exactly did you put the files, $HOME or $HOME/? What files from the repo can you see?

In message , mm0fmf writes

by running :

git clone --bare

$HOME/Adafruit_Python_DHT

drwxr-xr-x 4 pi pi 4096 May 13 11:34 refs

-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 73 May 13 11:34 description drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 May 13 11:34 info drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 May 13 11:34 hooks drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 May 13 11:34 branches drwxr-xr-x 4 pi pi 4096 May 13 11:34 objects

-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 143 May 13 11:34 config

-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 85 May 13 11:34 packed-refs

-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 23 May 13 11:34 HEAD

I think this is my first attempt at getting stuff from git, so it is quite likely that I've not downloaded enough stuff.

Thanks

Adrian

I clicked on the git link in my browser and can see the following files:

.github Adafruit_DHT examples source .gitignore LICENSE README.md ez_setup.py setup.py

I clicked the download zip and unzipping that has the files. I did your git command and got the same but I don't use git enough to know what is happening.

Very strange. I don't know why, but I can download the stuff directly using a browser on my Pi (nothing happens), so I've downloaded the zip file on another machine and copied it across. That worked !.

I've now got the software installed and it works (the temperature even looks about right).

Thanks

Adrian

That's your problem. Remove the --bare and try again. You should end up with the files in a directory called Adafruit_Python_DHT (no ".git")

git clone --bare creates a "bare" git repository that only has the version control system files in it and doesn't have a working tree.

When you download, or better, clone the Adafruit_Python_DHT package:

git clone snipped-for-privacy@github.com:adafruit/Adafruit_Python_DHT.git

it will create a directory called Adafruit_Python_DHT on your machine.

You have to be *in* that directory to run the setup.py, because you need to run the setup.py that belongs to that package.

Note that

Optionally, I would set this up in a virtual environment, so the Python software you install is isolated.

Inside the Adafruit_Python_DHT directory, create a virtualenv called "env":

virtualenv env

Activate it:

source env/bin/activate

And now run setup.py.

Now the Python libraries you have installed will be available whenever you are in an environment (a terminal session for example) in which you have activated the virtualenv.

Daniele

In message , D.M. Procida writes

Thanks, that's a new one on me, I'll have to do a bit more reading.

Adrian

Try , which is aimed at beginners.

Daniele