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Install failed on Latest Mint Cinnamon Fresh Install
Can't upgrade pip, install numpy etc. on externally managed environment (Mint Cinnamon 22.1 fresh install)
Mint installation instructions listed are now invalid.
~$ sudo apt install howdy Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: nvidia-cuda-dev The following NEW packages will be installed: howdy 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/38.9 kB of archives. After this operation, 166 kB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package howdy. (Reading database ... 503583 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../archives/howdy_2.6.1_all.deb ... Starting IR camera check...
Trying "Microsoft LifeCam Rear: Microso" One of your cameras should now be on. Did your IR emitters turn on? [y/N]: y
Starting certainty auto config...
After detection, Howdy knows how certain it is that the match is correct. How certain Howdy needs to be before authenticating you can be customized.
F: Fast. Allows more fuzzy matches, but speeds up the scanning process greatly.
B: Balanced. Still relatively quick detection, but might not log you in when further away.
S: Secure. The safest option, but will take much longer to authenticate you.
You can always change this setting in the config. What profile would you like to use? [f/b/s]: b
Unpacking howdy (2.6.1) ...
Setting up howdy (2.6.1) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/howdy.postinst:145: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '
w'
"davisking-dlib-\w+/(dlib/(http_client|java|matlab|test/)|"
Upgrading pip to the latest version
error: externally-managed-environment
× This environment is externally managed ╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try apt install python3-xyz, where xyz is the package you are trying to install.
If you wish to install a non-Debian-packaged Python package,
create a virtual environment using python3 -m venv path/to/venv.
Then use path/to/venv/bin/python and path/to/venv/bin/pip. Make
sure you have python3-full installed.
If you wish to install a non-Debian packaged Python application,
it may be easiest to use pipx install xyz, which will manage a
virtual environment for you. Make sure you have pipx installed.
See /usr/share/doc/python3.12/README.venv for more information.
note: If you believe this is a mistake, please contact your Python installation or OS distribution provider. You can override this, at the risk of breaking your Python installation or OS, by passing --break-system-packages. hint: See PEP 668 for the detailed specification. Error while running last command dpkg: error processing package howdy (--configure): installed howdy package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for man-db (2.12.0-4build2) ... Errors were encountered while processing: howdy E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
@mtarasuik try to run this command:
python3 -m pip install --upgrade numpy --verbose
and check the response. Also make sure that python3 points to your working python3 version (mine is 3.11)
you can change by doing this:
sudo update-alternatives --config python3
I can confirm that Ubuntu 24.04 also fails due to the attempt to update pip inside the install script. I had to comment that line from the installation script to be able to complete the dpkg run.
I can confirm that Ubuntu 24.04 also fails due to the attempt to update pip inside the install script. I had to comment that line from the installation script to be able to complete the dpkg run.
I was able to make it run by monkey parching lines inside the source. However my terminal on Linux mint is failing I had to revert the changes.
In that case, howdy is running but doesn't override the login, so making sudo in a terminal still prompting for password.
