Error in install - error: externally-managed-environment

[78davidcross]

Hello,

Thanks for this, but I'm getting an error when running the install.sh

I've tried running the below commands to set up a virtual environment but the error remains:
python3 -m venv ~/py_envs
source ~/py_envs/bin/activate

Any help appreciated as I'm a little out of my depth now

Regards,
David.

[tofuSCHNITZEL]

Hi,
what is the output of: sudo apt list --installed

[78davidcross]

Hi, what is the output of: sudo apt list --installed

Hello. Listing attached.
Installed.txt

[tofuSCHNITZEL]

Thanks, what happens if you just run python3 -m pip install . after you enabled the environment and change to the rpi-screenbrightness-mqtt directory with the pyproject.toml file?

[78davidcross]

So that appears to have "completed" in that there were no errors.

I don't find a rpi_screenbrightness_mqtt.conf under /etc, it only appears here: /home/piuser/rpi-screenbrightness-mqtt/assets

The service isn't showing as registered\running.

[tofuSCHNITZEL]

yea this installs it in the venv so its not usable outside with the normal systemd service...
basically some/any of your python package that was installed via the system package manager conflicts with the packages this project needs to install...

maybe the only option for you is to add "--break-system-packages" to Line 18 in install.sh

[rg2k]

yea this installs it in the venv so its not usable outside with the normal systemd service... basically some/any of your python package that was installed via the system package manager conflicts with the packages this project needs to install...

maybe the only option for you is to add "--break-system-packages" to Line 18 in install.sh

This fixed the issue for me. It did fail starting the service for the first time - but after the config change, all is working.

[tofuSCHNITZEL]

Glad to hear!