Installation Issue

[sebpwhite]

Hi. I'm probably missing something obvious but I can't figure out why this plugin won't install for me. I installed Inventree into a Debian 11 LXC container (hosted on Proxmox) using the install script. The Inventree install itself went fine. I attempted to install using the pip install inventree-brother-plugin. No errors or warnings and pip show inventree-brother-plugin yields:

root@ct-inventree:/etc/inventree# pip show inventree-brother-plugin Name: inventree-brother-plugin Version: 0.6.0 Summary: Brother label printer plugin for InvenTree Home-page: https://github.com/inventree/inventree-brother-plugin Author: Oliver Walters Author-email: oliver.henry.walters@gmail.com License: MIT Location: /usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages Requires: brother-ql-inventree Required-by:

However I don't see an entry for the plugin in the web interface and nothing in the admin side either.

Any ideas on what I'm missing here?

[sebpwhite]

Screenshots of what I see in the web interface in case it helps! Also, I have rebooted the system several times since running the pip install command.

[SchrodingersGat]

If you are running within a container you will probably want to enable this option:

And then restart the container service

[sebpwhite]

Thanks very much for the quick reply. Unfortunately enabling that option doesn't seem to make a difference. I still don't see the plugin in admin or the settings section after enabling that option and rebooting. pip show still lists it as installed. Is there anything else I need to do to make Inventree see the plugin that was installed. The documentation says plugins should be in /opt/inventree/Inventree/plugins but pip installed the package to /usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages. Is that part of the problem?

[matmair]

@sebpwhite what install instructions did you follow? A possible solution would be to install the plugin again from InvenTree global settings - could be that it currently is installed in the wrong python venv.

[sebpwhite]

Thanks for the reply @matmair . I just looked at the main readme.md file. In the same Debian 11 LXC that I ran the install script for inventree I ran pip install inventree-brother-plugin to install the plugin. Also installed the 2 lots dependencies listed there.

I did notice the option to install via the web ui. What url should I put in the 'Source URL' field there? I tried https://github.com/inventree/inventree-brother-plugin.git and I got green banner message saying 'Plugin Installed' but it still doesn't appear after a reboot.

I'm not very experienced with python venvs. I had a quick look at the official install.sh script I used to install inventree and I can't see any hints as to what venv is created there so I'm not too sure where to start making sure I'm running pip in the right environment.

[matmair]

@sebpwhite you can just use the package name, no need for source URL in this case.

[sebpwhite]

I ended up figuring it out through the command line. First running source /opt/inventree/env/bin/activate to get into the right venv before running the pip install inventree-brother-plugin did the trick. Thanks very much for pointing me in the right direction @matmair !