search

meshtastic / python

The Python CLI and API for talking to Meshtastic devices
https://meshtastic.org
401 stars 170 forks source link

Installing CLI v1.3.37 breaks Warpinator on Linux Mint 21 #378

Closed kerastinell closed 2 years ago

kerastinell commented 2 years ago

Installing Meshtastic CLI 1.3.37 prevents Warpinator (FLOSS file transfer solution made by the Linux Mint developers) from launching on Linux Mint 21 and makes it throw error messages about protobuf:

~$ warpinator
Descriptors cannot not be created directly.
If this call came from a _pb2.py file, your generated code is out of date and must be regenerated with protoc >= 3.19.0.
If you cannot immediately regenerate your protos, some other possible workarounds are:
 1. Downgrade the protobuf package to 3.20.x or lower.
 2. Set PROTOCOL_BUFFERS_PYTHON_IMPLEMENTATION=python (but this will use pure-Python parsing and will be much slower).

More information: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/news/2022-05-06#python-updates

It seems like there's some dependency conflict with the protobuf package.

Complete logs and steps to reproduce are available in the issue I opened in the warpinator repository.

garthvh commented 2 years ago

This is the python protobufs package we are using protobuf>=3.13.0

Mint is quite a ways behind sometimes, not sure this is something we are going to be able to manage.

caveman99 commented 2 years ago

Version conflicts with python software are common, best use a venv to isolate them from each other. https://meshtastic.org/docs/software/python/python-installation (linux tab)