[Sugar-devel] Fwd: Unable to set up the Music Blocks repository

[Shrey tripathi]

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From: Shrey tripathi <shreytripathi27 at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Unable to set up the Music Blocks repository
To: James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>


James,
Thank you very much for your reply!
I realised that I had been using an alias, python=python3. I removed that,
and instead installed the 'python-is-python3' package. This seems to do the
trick.

Thanks,
Shrey

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 10:47 AM James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> Thanks for the report.
>
> You didn't say, but based on your log referencing kernel
> 5.4.0-48-generic it seems likely you are using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal.
>
> By decision of Ubuntu project, on Ubuntu 20.04 "python" is not a valid
> command, by default.  "python3" is valid, as is "python2", but
> "python" itself is not, unless you install a special-purpose package
> python-is-python3.  "apt show python-is-python3" says, in part
>
> Description: symlinks /usr/bin/python to python3
>  In Ubuntu, all python packages use explicit python3 or python2
>  interpreter and do not use unversioned /usr/bin/python at all. Some
>  third-party code is now predominantly python3 based, yet may use
>  /usr/bin/python.
>  .
>  This is a convenience package which ships a symlink to point
>  the /usr/bin/python interpreter at the current default python3. It may
>  improve compatibility with other modern systems, whilst breaking some
>  obsolete or 3rd-party software.
>  .
>  No packages may declare dependencies on this package.
>
> In this case, Music Blocks is third-party code.
>
> However, the exact failing command is not from Music Blocks.  See line
> 12 of your Gist.  This command is not in Music Blocks repository.  As
> shown by "git grep http.server".
>
> So my guess is you have installed a version of npm or node that is
> incompatible with Ubuntu 20.04's Python policy.  We can't fix that.
>
> I was able to reproduce your problem using npm and node from Ubuntu
> 20.04 package archives, and then fix it by editing packages.json to
> use "python3 -m http.server 3000" instead.
>
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 10:20:26AM +0530, Shrey tripathi wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I didn't know whom to contact regarding this or where to post this,
> hence am
> > putting this up here.
> >
> > I was following the steps to set up Music Blocks on my local system from
> [1]
> > here. But after I cloned the repository, changed my directory to
> 'musicblocks',
> > and ran 'npm run serve', I get the following error:
> >
> >     > musicblocks at 3.2.0 serve /home/me/SUGAR/musicblocks
> >     > python -c "import os, sys; os.system('python -m SimpleHTTPServer
> 3000
> >     --bind 127.0.0.1') if sys.version_info.major==2 else
> os.system('python -m
> >     http.server 3000 --bind 127.0.0.1');"
> >
> >     sh: 1: python: not found
> >     npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
> >     npm ERR! syscall spawn
> >     npm ERR! file sh
> >     npm ERR! errno ENOENT
> >     npm ERR! musicblocks at 3.2.0 serve: `python -c "import os, sys;
> os.system
> >     ('python -m SimpleHTTPServer 3000 --bind 127.0.0.1') if
> >     sys.version_info.major==2 else os.system('python -m http.server 3000
> --bind
> >     127.0.0.1');"`
> >     npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
> >     npm ERR!
> >     npm ERR! Failed at the musicblocks at 3.2.0 serve script.
> >     npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely
> >     additional logging output above.
> >
> >     npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
> >     npm ERR!     /home/me/.npm/_logs/2020-09-28T04_33_00_096Z-debug.log
> >
> > I have npm(version 6.14.4), node(version v10.19.0), and python installed
> on my
> > Ubuntu system, and I can run 'python' from the command line. The
> complete error
> > log as defined in the last line above can be found [2]here.
> >
> > Please help me out here.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Shrey
> >
> > References:
> >
> > [1]
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/musicblocks#how-to-set-up-a-local-server
> > [2]
> https://gist.github.com/shrey27tri01/800bcc8362eb1929aa56968fbfaa606d
>
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>
> --
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.netrek.org/
>
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