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Installation problem
On a Pi4 with Bookworm I installed Python like in the description. After the installation command of PSA-car-controller I get following:
`pi@Pi4-4GB:~ $ pip3 install -r psa-car-controller 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.
For more information visit http://rptl.io/venv
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. `
Also sudo does not helps.
The explanation is already in your bug report above, this is mostly a documentation issue of psa-car-controller. It's not recommended to install Python packages (or any other 3rd party packages!) bypassing your OS's tools. As there is no Raspberry Pi OS package, however, you have two options:
- install into a Python virtual environment
- force installation.
It you're willing to learn about Python virtual environments, here's a short summary:
- create it using "python3 -m venv some_path"
- activate it using "source some_path/bin/activate"
- continue to install psa-car-controller using pip as described
- Whenever you want to start psa-car-controller, be sure to activate the venv first as descirbed above
If you want the quick & dirty forced install and don't care about a clean Raspbian installation, just use "pip --break-system-packages" as also written above. :-)
