{"id":182,"date":"2020-11-13T11:40:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T11:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/picockpit.com\/raspberry-pi\/?p=182"},"modified":"2023-08-30T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T11:16:00","slug":"workaround-for-picockpit-on-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/picockpit.com\/raspberry-pi\/de\/umgehung-fur-picockpit-auf-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Workaround f\u00fcr PiCockpit unter Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Note: this is a work in progress, another problem has cropped up which needs to be looked at!<\/strong> Currently PiCockpit will not work on Ubuntu, unfortunately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A user tried to install PiCockpit on Ubuntu for Raspberry Pi, and contacted me with the following problem:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Setting up picockpit-client (2.0.1) …
cp: cannot stat ‘\/usr\/bin\/python3.7<\/strong>‘: No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat ‘\/usr\/bin\/python3.7’: No such file or directory
WARNING: Some error occured while updating
\/usr\/share\/picockpit-client\/bin\/python3
picockpit-client.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it.
Could not find platform independent libraries
Could not find platform dependent libraries
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to [:]
Fatal Python error: initfsencoding: Unable to get the locale encoding
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘encodings’<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current thread 0xb6ef8970 (most recent call first):
bash: line 15: 28213 Aborted sudo picockpit-client connect –yes<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This problem is due to the fact that the Picockpit client depends on Python version 3.7. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS has Python version 3.8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can try to work around this problem, before re-running the installation for picockpit-client, by running the following command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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sudo<\/span> <\/span>ln<\/span> <\/span>-<\/span>s<\/span> <\/span>\/<\/span>usr<\/span>\/<\/span>bin<\/span>\/<\/span>python3<\/span>.<\/span>8<\/span> <\/span>\/<\/span>usr<\/span>\/<\/span>bin<\/span>\/<\/span>python3<\/span>.<\/span>7<\/span><\/span><\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Note that this is a rather “dirty” workaround, as it will suggest to applications that a newer Python version is actually an older version. It seems a bit challenging currently to change the way the Debian and the Raspberry Pi OS package is built, I will investigate further if more users inquire about PiCockpit not working on Ubuntu. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Possibly there will be a separate package.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Possibly I will also include an option for the symlink in the setup.sh script.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After executing the command above, you can install PiCockpit using the one-liner:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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bash<\/span> <\/span>-<\/span>c<\/span> <\/span>"<\/span>$(curl -k -s\u00a0https:\/\/picockpit.com\/setup.sh)<\/span>"<\/span><\/span><\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Here you will run into another problem, “ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘picockpit-client'” – I will investigate this, if further users ask me to make PiCockpit available on Ubuntu.<\/p>\n