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Python library for the VL53L1X Laser Ranger
https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/vl53l1x-breakout
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Cannot install vl53l1x via pip #42

Closed trojek closed 4 years ago

trojek commented 4 years ago

I use RPi 3 and I have python (both 2 and 3 version) and pip installed.

When I execute:

pip install vl53l1x

I got:

Collecting vl53l1x
Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: 404 Client Error: Not Found for url: https://www.piwheels.org/simple/vl53l1x/

How can I install vl541x package?

Gadgetoid commented 4 years ago

It's on PyPI so presumably your pip is not failing over from piwheels.org to PyPI... I don't know why this might be.

https://pypi.org/project/VL53L1X/#history

Perhaps this will work?:

pip install -i https://pypi.org/simple/ VL53L1X
Gadgetoid commented 4 years ago

Oh it looks like PiWheels is case-sensitive and doesn't do the redirect that PyPI does. Some update to either, or pip, has potentially totally broken the ability to install this package on a Pi.

I've raised an issue about this here: https://github.com/piwheels/packages/issues/145

In the mean time you could grab the appropriate .whl from here: https://pypi.org/project/VL53L1X/#files

And just supply the filename to the pip install command.

trojek commented 4 years ago

I tried pip install -i https://pypi.org/simple/ VL53L1X but I got the same error. I also try to execute this command on my laptop with Fedora installed and it works.

On raspberry pi I downloaded .whl file (wget https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/df/05/7aff24243ae12ac1b8b1f1721e9ee6460be7373f71cce795fe2b79bae2d7/VL53L1X-0.0.5-cp37-cp37m-linux_armv7l.whl) and installed as you suggested (pip3 install VL53L1X-0.0.5-cp37-cp37m-linux_armv7l.whl)

Everything works, thank you.