Unable to install mycroft on Ubuntu 14.04 due to pip errors

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Hi there,

I’m trying to setup Mycroft on Ubuntu 14.04 on a Jetson TK1 board. I followed the instructions to clone git repo and run bash dev_setup.sh.

I encountered some problems and fixed some, now stuck at this step

  pip install -r requirements.txt

in the dev_setup.sh. It keeps failing at different lines of the requirements.txt with the following

  Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement [whichever library/line it was]

So sometimes fail at the 1st line, or 6th or 7th or 12th etc, as if the server/network is unstable.

The furthest I could get is line 16 and it gave me a different error, shown below:

Downloading/unpacking pillow==7.1.2 (from -r requirements.txt (line 16))
  Real name of requirement pillow is pillow
  Downloading Pillow-7.1.2.tar.gz (38.9MB): 38.9MB downloaded
  Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip_build_ubuntu/pillow/setup.py) egg_info for package pillow
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 17, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip_build_ubuntu/pillow/setup.py", line 305
        yield from self.features
                 ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 17, in <module>

  File "/tmp/pip_build_ubuntu/pillow/setup.py", line 305

    yield from self.features

             ^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

----------------------------------------
Cleaning up...
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip_build_ubuntu/pillow
Storing debug log for failure in /home/ubuntu/.pip/pip.log
Warning: Failed to install all requirements. Continue? y/N

What can I do? Can I perhaps install the libraries one by one and modify the dev_setup.sh accordingly?

For reference:

ubuntu@tegra-ubuntu:~/mycroft-core$ pip --version
pip 1.5.4 from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (python 2.7)

Any help is much apprecaited, thanks!

Daniel

p.s. For the record I had these two other problems earlier:

  1. I initially kept getting “runtimeerror: python 3.5 or later is required” I figured that could be from pip not installed properly, so I did sudo apt install python-pip, that fixed it

  2. I kept getting “Failed to set up virtualenv for mycroft, existing setup” and after some digging I realised it’s because .venv/bin/activate scripts aren’t executable.

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Hi,

the big issue here is probably the python version. Mycroft requires python3.5 or higher. Ther yield from error makes it sound like the python3 version available in Ubuntu 14.04 is < 3.3 (where the yield from syntax was introduced).

I think even if you get past this issue Mycroft will likely not run correctly on your machine.

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Thanks! That’s a good pointer. I thought the .venv is supposed to take care of multiple python versions, I think I’ve seen python 2.7 and 3.x in the system but I’ll double check.

I think even if you get past this issue Mycroft will likely not run correctly on your machine.

So sad :sob: Why is that? Is it because of the ancient Ubuntu version? Thought I’ve seen a post saying Mycroft ran on Ubuntu 14.04.

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This thread may also be helpful to you.

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If you upgrade the python version on the system it should run but you’ll need python3.5 or above.

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Thank you so much! With your help I have finally got it installed, but when I try to start I’m stuck at one problem at the moment: Need help to run Mycroft on Ubuntu 14.04 - will be great to hear any suggestions, thanks!