32blit
2 noob issues and fixes
in file: https://github.com/pimoroni/32blit-beta/blob/master/docs/Linux.md
On the "sudo apt install ...." line, it should include: python3-setuptools
And , line "pip3 install construct bitstring" requires sudo
The last one also on tools doc in src (updated 11 days ago): https://github.com/pimoroni/32blit-tools/blob/master/src/README.md
Which is duplicated in root folder (updated 17 days ago): https://github.com/pimoroni/32blit-tools/blob/master/README.md
Every time I stick "sudo" before a command in documentation, someone drives by to say I should leave the bare command and add something like "You might need sudo." 😆
I'm not quite sure how we should approach this, but it probably needs standardised somehow. Some Python setups will happily install packages for just the current user- but the root/user environments don't cross pollinate so it can - and does, in my case - confuse the heck out of people.
Oh Python 🙄
I think you're right re python3-setuptools though.
I'm going to close this as sudo pip install is even less likely to be the right thing to do these days...
(Though we might need a new issue for updating the tools instructions in general...)
These days, installing setuptools is mostly not required: most projects are downloaded as wheels, that don’t have build steps, and those that use sdists have metadata that specifies their build backend (setuptools or other) to the installer tool.
