Installing howdy issue

[tanujdargan]

Please describe the issue in as much detail as possible, including any errors and traces. If your issue is a camera issue, be sure to also post the image generated by running sudo howdy snapshot.

Upgrading pip to the latest version

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/lib/dpkg/info/howdy.postinst", line 110, in handleStatus(sc(["pip3", "install", "--upgrade", "pip"])) File "/usr/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 349, in call with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as p: File "/usr/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 951, in init self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds, File "/usr/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 1821, in _execute_child raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename) FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'pip3' dpkg: error processing package howdy (--configure): installed howdy package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) ... Errors were encountered while processing: howdy E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Linux distribution (if applicable): Kubuntu 21.10

Howdy version (sudo howdy version): howdy doesn't work but shows as it's installed

[christianrauch]

I faced the same issue and in my case this was caused by having pip install via pip (I once did a sudo pip3 install -U pip).

To fix the issue, first verify that pip3 is installed via pip itself. In this case, a which pip3 will give you /usr/local/bin/pip3. You then have the uninstall this "pip3 from pip" and install the Ubuntu pip3 package:

sudo pip3 uninstall pip
sudo apt install --reinstall python3-pip

If all goes well, which pip3 should give you /usr/bin/pip3 (i.e. not in local) and the installation script should find pip.

[expl0r3rgu1]

I faced the same issue and in my case this was caused by having pip install via pip (I once did a sudo pip3 install -U pip).

To fix the issue, first verify that pip3 is installed via pip itself. In this case, a which pip3 will give you /usr/local/bin/pip3. You then have the uninstall this "pip3 from pip" and install the Ubuntu pip3 package:

sudo pip3 uninstall pip
sudo apt install --reinstall python3-pip

If all goes well, which pip3 should give you /usr/bin/pip3 (i.e. not in local) and the installation script should find pip.

This worked and a wrong installation of pip seems to be the actual problem. I saw a lot of issues similar to this one

[dm30]

I tried to follow the steps above but I obtain the error "externally-managed-environment" when trying to uninstall. It happens too with other programs that interact the same way with python. Thank you for your help