Unable to install lgpio python module in debian sid

[adamhl8]

I'm not very familiar with python in general, so apologies if I'm missing something obvious here. Ultimately I'm trying to figure why I can't import lgpio.

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'lgpio'

I followed the instructions on the site:

sudo apt install swig python3-dev python3-setuptools
wget http://abyz.me.uk/lg/lg.zip
unzip lg.zip
cd lg
make
sudo make install

Both make and sudo make install run without issue. Here's the output from the latter:

install -m 0644 lgpio.h                  /usr/local/include
install -m 0644 rgpio.h                  /usr/local/include
install -m 0755 liblgpio.so.1 /usr/local/lib
install -m 0755 librgpio.so.1 /usr/local/lib
install -m 0755 rgpiod                   /usr/local/bin
install -m 0755 rgs                      /usr/local/bin
install -m 0644 rgpiod.1                 /usr/local/man/man1
install -m 0644 rgs.1                    /usr/local/man/man1
install -m 0644 lgpio.3                  /usr/local/man/man3
install -m 0644 rgpio.3                  /usr/local/man/man3
ldconfig
/usr/bin/python3
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/command/install.py:34: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: setup.py install is deprecated. Use build and pip and other standards-based tools.
  warnings.warn(
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py:146: EasyInstallDeprecationWarning: easy_install command is deprecated. Use build and pip and other standards-based tools.
  warnings.warn(
/usr/bin/python3

In the PY_LGPIO directory I tried running sudo python3 setup.py install but I get the following error(s) (omitted the beginning of the output):

running install
...
...
file lgpio.py (for module lgpio) not found
file lgpio.py (for module lgpio) not found
running build_ext
building '_lgpio' extension
creating build
creating build/temp.linux-aarch64-cpython-311
aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -g -fwrapv -O2 -fPIC -I/usr/include/python3.11 -c lgpio_wrap.c -o build/temp.linux-aarch64-cpython-311/lgpio_wrap.o
cc1: fatal error: lgpio_wrap.c: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
error: command '/usr/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit code 1

I'm not really sure what else to try. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[joan2937]

sudo python3 setup.py install is not part of the build instructions.

Try again in a clean directory.

wget http://abyz.me.uk/lg/lg.zip
unzip lg.zip
cd lg
make
sudo make install

Are you using Python2 (deprecated) or Python3 or both?

Start Python at the command line

e.g. python or python2 or python3 and import lgpio

What happens?

[adamhl8]

Using python3. python2 is not installed. I'm on Debian sid (Linux pi 6.1.0-3-arm64 #1 SMP Debian 6.1.8-1 (2023-01-29) aarch64 GNU/Linux).

I tried again in a clean directory.

~/lg$ python3
Python 3.11.1 (main, Dec 31 2022, 10:23:59) [GCC 12.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import lgpio
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'lgpio'

[joan2937]

Try both the following again.

sudo apt install swig python-dev python3-dev
sudo apt install python-setuptools python3-setuptools

[adamhl8]

python-dev and python-setuptools are not available on sid. Not sure if those packages are required for proper installation when I have the python3 versions.

I'm able to install python-dev-is-python3 as a replacement for python-dev. I tried installing again in the same (clean) way as above but I'm still not able to import.

[joan2937]

Perhaps sid is the problem. If so I can't help as I stick with stable.

I have the following Python packages manually installed.

python-dev-is-python2/stable,stable,now 2.7.18-9 all [installed]
python-setuptools/stable,stable,now 44.1.1-1 all [installed]
python3-dev/stable,now 3.9.2-3 arm64 [installed]
python3-gpiozero/stable,stable,now 1.6.2-1 all [installed]
python3-pip/stable,stable,now 20.3.4-4+rpt1+deb11u1 all [installed]
python3-setuptools/stable,stable,now 52.0.0-4 all [installed]

Linux ceres 6.1.0-v8+ #1609 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 16 15:11:24 GMT 2022 aarch64 GNU/Linux

PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="11"
VERSION="11 (bullseye)"
VERSION_CODENAME=bullseye
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

[adamhl8]

As a workaround, I'm able to download/install the latest python3-lgpio package from launchpad (python3-lgpio_0.2.0.0-0ubuntu2_arm64.deb). I can import lgpio without issue after installing that package (and dependencies). Seems like my original issue has something to do with those missing python packages.

Thank you for your time, I appreciate the help.