[SOLVED] Installing protonvpn from SBo

upnort · 12-29-2020, 03:28 PM

I'm trying to install the protonvpn-cli package from SBo. All dependency packages are installed.

Any use of the protonvpn command results in the following failure:

Code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/protonvpn", line 6, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3126, in <module>
    @_call_aside
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3110, in _call_aside
    f(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3139, in _initialize_master_working_set
    working_set = WorkingSet._build_master()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 581, in _build_master
    ws.require(__requires__)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 898, in require
    needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 784, in resolve
    raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'certifi>=2017.4.17' distribution was not found and is required by requests

I'm presuming the failure is related to the python-certifi package, but I'm not a Python person and don't know how to fix.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

Edit: Slackware 14.2, fully updated.

gegechris99 · 12-29-2020, 03:41 PM

Are you running Current or 14.2?
If 14.2, package python-certifi is a dependency for python-requests.
It would be helpful, if you clarify the above. If you are running 14.2, please list all the packages that you installed in relation to protonvpn-cli.

upnort · 12-29-2020, 03:51 PM

I updated my OP to include the Slackware version (14.2).

Packages installed:

MarkupSafe
Jinja2
python3
python3-pythondialog
python-urllib3
idna
python-chardet
python-certifi
python-requests
docopt
protonvpn-cli

gegechris99 · 12-29-2020, 04:09 PM

In python-certifi.SlackBuild, only python is used. There is no code for python3 support:

Code:

python setup.py install --root=$PKG

/usr/bin/python should be a symlink. Check to which executable it points to: /usr/bin/python2 or /usr/bin/python3? My guess is that it points to python2.

I would suggest to modify the python-certifi.SlackBuild by adding this part in bold characters:

Code:

python setup.py install --root=$PKG

# Python 3 support.
if $(python3 -c 'import sys' 2>/dev/null); then
  python3 setup.py install --root=$PKG
fi

and rebuild and reinstall the package.

upnort · 12-29-2020, 04:50 PM

Thank you! Modifying the build script to python3 setup.py got me past the error.