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🂻 JACK Audio Connection Kit (JACK) Client for Python :snake:
https://jackclient-python.readthedocs.io/
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install problems related to lib/jack folder #68

Closed nedlrichards closed 4 years ago

nedlrichards commented 5 years ago

If you install jackclient using pip without installing jack first, it becomes hard to fix the problem. To reproduce (i use anaconda, so my pip installs are all local by default).

1) (Without jack installed) pip install JACK-Client 2) Woops... sudo apt install multimedia-jack 3) (With jack installed) pip uninstall JACK-Client 4) (With jack installed) pip install JACK-Client

This install mistake brings up a very strange error where find_library returns a directory instead of a library. The ... dots aren't real, just hiding my file system for no particular reason.

>>> import jack 
OSError: cannot load library '.../miniconda3/envs/py3/lib/jack'
>>> from ctypes.util import find_library
>>> find_library("jack")
'.../miniconda3/envs/py3/lib/jack'

I fixed this eventually by: step (3) deleting the .../miniconda3/envs/py3/lib/jack directory step (4)

Is it possible to delete this directory as a part of the pip uninstall process?

mgeier commented 5 years ago

I'm not a pip expert, but I don't think it is possible to do any custom actions in the uninstall process.

But anyway, this is really strange, because find_library() shouldn't ever show a directory, right?

Would you mind asking about this in some Python support forum or mailing list?

And at which point is this directory even created?

mgeier commented 4 years ago

@nedlrichards Any news on this?

mgeier commented 4 years ago

Closing due to lack of response.