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marianosimone / epub-thumbnailer

Script to extract the cover of an epub book and create a thumbnail for it
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Error running the script: python not found, even though it is installed #36

Closed Yaglb closed 2 years ago

Yaglb commented 2 years ago

Hi,

I am not an expert Gnu/Linux user, so I may have done something wrong or missed something obvious but since I got the same error on my two machines and got it to work using the same solution I thought I might not be alone in having this issue.

Following the installation instructions, I got an error message when trying to run the install script using the sudo python install.py install command (on two Debian 11/Xfce PC). The shell was telling there was no python installed: bash: python: command not found. I tried to (re)install it using apt, but it told me it was already installed.

Replacing 'python' by 'python3' (sudo python3 install.py install), the installation ran as as expected and everything is working great. Thank you so much for writing this, It's great to be able to display ebooks cover in the file manager :)

marianosimone commented 2 years ago

Thanks for calling this out! I had already transitioned everything to python3, but the installation instructions still said just python. I'll add a comment about this being system-dependent :)