Install Plotman w/ Chia's Experimental GUI Installer

[ijf4ghub313]

Linux Mint 20.04 I installed Chia via the "experimental GUI installer" (chia-blockchain_1.1.5_amd64.deb) and because it doesn't quite operate the same ---no requirement to . ./activate the virtual environment, etc--- I'm not sure if I'm performing the Plotman install correctly (actually I'm pretty sure I'm not).

Any insight on the differences of installing Plotman if I used Chia's "experimental GUI installer"? ( The Chia GUI does seem to be operating fine ... I'm synced and generating plots like mad. )

But I'm not even sure where Chia installed to ... looks like it might be in /usr/lib/chia-blockchain directory(?), but . ./activate doesnt work from there and when I try to install Plotman i get a 'launchpadlib' error and a "WARNING: The script plotman is installed in '/home/ijf/.local/bin' which is not on PATH." during install. And nothing seems to work after install either ... "plotman: command not found".

I think if I could just get over this hump your instructions are very followable.

[bradsquicciarini]

If you installed it with the experimental GUI installer, it won't work. It can't find active jobs. I have an open pull request to allow it to work with the experimental GUI install.

But as for your install problems, you just need to sym link it.

# Find the location of plotman
pip show plotman

# Use the path from that output to sym link it to something in your $PATH
ln -s <path to plotman> /usr/local/bin/plotman

[altendky]

Did you try the development branch? There are various fixes related to not-Python installs of chia.

[ijf4ghub313]

Thanks for the help guys. I think I'll just wait for a future version. I'm new enough with Linux, Chia, and GitHub that I'll just be wasting your time asking noob questions. Looking forward to using Plotman in the future. Thanks for the work you're doing. -ijf

[altendky]

FWIW, installing the development version of plotman involves following the regular installation instructions and using @development rather than @main. But sure, I might get a release out tonight, maybe.

[ijf4ghub313]

woah! it "successfully built plotman". I will start playing. Thanks!

[lexzz]

Hey! I'm having the same question.

Tried to install the development version but seeing "plotman: command not found" As described I made a symlink but maybe forgot something? Hope you can give me a hint.

Thanks in advance!

[ijf4ghub313]

lexzz, I was able to easily get installed using the recommendations above, however still having trouble running Plotman. I gave up last night so I could start plotting overnight and while at work today. Small Note: i needed to use pip3 rather than pip for install ... and it complained about the --force-reinstall option but worked fine without it. after install, Plotman is able to show -help, and also print out the current version, and it did generate the default plotman.yaml file, which i updated, but when i tried to run plotman plot i got:

ijf@XXXXX:~$ plotman plot
...starting plot loop
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ijf/.local/bin/plotman", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/home/ijf/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/plotman/plotman.py", line 143, in main
    wait_reason = manager.maybe_start_new_plot(cfg.directories, cfg.scheduling, cfg.plotting)
  File "/home/ijf/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/plotman/manager.py", line 130, in maybe_start_new_plot
    p = subprocess.Popen(plot_args,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 854, in __init__
    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 1702, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'chia'
ijf@XXXXX:~$

I attributed this to what Brad said above about it just not working with Chia's experimental GUI installer. I presume the experimental installer puts Chia in a different location and Plotman cant find it.

This appears to be the same as (or similar to) #301, #155, and maybe #239. I'm going to be watching those for any updates too.

[lexzz]

@ijf313-github Thanks for your message

After some trying I was able to install Plotman with pip3 but still wasn't able to get it going. I'm going to give it another try and otherwise I keep watching the new releases and the issues you mentioned.

If I find a solution I will let you know ;)

[josinaldobarbosa]

WARNING: The script plotman is installed in '/home/josinaldo/.local/bin' which is not on PATH.
  Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.

pip3 show plotman

Name: plotman
Version: 0.2
Summary: Chia plotting manager
Home-page: https://github.com/ericaltendorf/plotman
Author: Eric Altendorf
Author-email: None
License: Apache 2.0
Location: /home/josinaldo/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages
Requires: click, marshmallow, pendulum, desert, attrs, psutil, pyyaml, texttable, appdirs
Required-by:

sudo ln -s /home/josinaldo/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages /usr/local/bin/plotman $ plotman version plotman: command not found

@bradsquicciarini what am I doing wrong?

[altendky]

If you could try out https://github.com/ericaltendorf/plotman/pull/418, that'd be great. Follow the regular readme installation but use git+https://github.com/altendky/plotman@skip_matching_plot_process_parents as the url.

[maxbelz]

If you could try out #418, that'd be great. Follow the regular readme installation but use git+https://github.com/altendky/plotman@skip_matching_plot_process_parents as the url.

no repository with this name @skip_matching_plot_process_parents

[maxbelz]

ok i see i see it is merged with development branch

[defaultsecurity]

I'm having the same problem. I installed chia using the experimental installer. $ plotman version = plotman 0.3.1+dev

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/username/.local/bin/plotman", line 8, in sys.exit(main()) File "/home/username/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/plotman/plotman.py", line 179, in main interactive.run_interactive() File "/home/username/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/plotman/interactive.py", line 335, in run_interactive curses.wrapper(curses_main) File "/usr/lib/python3.9/curses/init.py", line 94, in wrapper return func(stdscr, *args, **kwds) File "/home/username/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/plotman/interactive.py", line 117, in curses_main (started, msg) = manager.maybe_start_new_plot( File "/home/username/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/plotman/manager.py", line 169, in maybe_start_new_plot p = subprocess.Popen(plot_args, 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: 'chia'

[maxbelz]

so looks like there is no way to use plotman with gui,right? i need this gui just for farm and monitoring farming processes etc.. already installed gui, if i know , i wouldn't...

[ijf4ghub313]

I used Chia 1.1.6 as a chance to remove the experimental [Chia] installer and re-install via command line per their instructions. Previously I had trouble getting through the installation without errors (what drove me to use the experimental installer) but this time I breezed through without issue (not sure of the reason). Then I ran the Plotman installer again following the exact instructions provided on the Code page. Installation went smooth. Plotman is working great. I'm only a day in, but its sooooo much nicer than trying to handle plotting by hand or with the Chia GUI. Phew!