Dependency on smbus-cffi but it's not getting installed

[CleoQc]

Right now this repo assumes smbus-cffi is pre-installed. If it's not then setup.py in miscellaneous fails.

[RobertLucian]

Hmm interesting. I'm gonna tackle this.

[RobertLucian]

This shouldn't fail:

1. All debian dependencies for smbus-cffi get installed before running the python installer: https://github.com/DexterInd/RFR_Tools/blob/master/scripts/install_tools.sh#L147-L156.
2. The python installer already has listed smbus-cffi as a dependency: https://github.com/DexterInd/RFR_Tools/blob/master/miscellaneous/setup.py#L31.

Can you give me some indications as to how this happened?

[CleoQc]

trying to install just RFR_tools on its own (in order to get auto_detect_rpi)
I ran install_tools.sh and then setup.py, no parameters.

[RobertLucian]

No parameters on what? install_tools.sh or setup.py? If no parameters were passed to the former, then yeah, you'd get yourself into this.

[CleoQc]

No parameters on install_tools.sh which, to my understanding, was supposed to give us the same default behaviour as what's used in Raspbian for Robots

[RobertLucian]

In Raspbian For Robots we must be installing it at the beginning and then we skip it for every other install. You need to run it this way:

bash install_tools.sh --install-python-package --update-aptget --install-deb-deps