Can Pimoroni please provide install instructions for Inky library that work with Debian 12 Bookworm? Existing install instructions provided by Pimoroni result in “error: externally-managed-environment” and “see PEP 668 for detailed specifications.” Can someone please list a step-by-step install guide that incorporates ‘virtual environment?’
Thank you
There’s a WIP installer for Pi 5/Bookworm here - once that’s finalised and merged in I’ll update the learn guide (but hopefully there shouldn’t be too many changes from a user POV - we’re working on making the installer set up a venv for you if you don’t have one, which should make it a bit more beginner friendly).
If you decide to give the updated installer a try, I’m sure @Gadgetoid would appreciate feedback on Github if you run into any issues with your Pi/Inky combo.
Not just for Inky - can we have similar for the other historic product installers?
I’m hitting the same issue with ButtonShim and Mote at the moment.
We’re intending to Bookworm-ify as many of our installers as possible, but it’s going to take us a while to work through the whole list.
There’s some more info about the adjustments we need to make to accommodate Bookworm/Pi 5 here: Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm + Pep 668 by Gadgetoid · Pull Request #13 · pimoroni/boilerplate-python · GitHub
and a rather intimidating progress/priority list here:
Migration to Pi 5 / Bookworm Progress · Issue #16 · pimoroni/boilerplate-python · GitHub
Is the intent to maintain compatibility with the Legacy (Bullseye) OSes?
I only ask because I’m having a bit of a battle with the GrowHAT and the latest installer kills Bullseye support and I wasn’t sure if it would be helpful to be raising issues… ;-)
Not sure about that one, sorry!
Issues or comments on the relevant PRs are probably best.