<html><head></head><body><div>Hi Michael,</div><div><br></div><div>to get get pip working on Debian I need to remove (or rename) the file </div><div><br></div><div>/usr/lib/python3.11/EXTERNALLY-MANAGED</div><div><br></div><div>After doing that I can use pip as normal. It should be the same on Ubuntu.</div><div><br></div><div>There are other solutions too:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.makeuseof.com/fix-pip-error-externally-managed-environment-linux/">https://www.makeuseof.com/fix-pip-error-externally-managed-environment-linux/</a></div><div><br></div><div>But this is the one I prefer.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br></div><div>Am Sonntag, dem 17.11.2024 um 08:19 +0800 schrieb Michael Geddes via OvmsDev:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Firstly, thanks to Michael Balzer for fixing my errors in the rst files I checked in. (Also, apparently I can't spell Auxiliary - doh). I _had_ tried to get sphinx working recently and failed miserably, so I tried again this morning.</div><div><br></div><div>The problem is that ubuntu:</div><div>* Doesn't provide a package for m2r2 or sphinx-mdinclude (a fork of m2r2)</div><div>* No longer allows you to pip install into the main python library path</div><div><br></div><div>So first I got rid of the installed sphinx-doc</div><div><font face="monospace">sudo apt remove sphinx-doc</font></div><div><br></div><div>Then I set up a sphinx virtual environment</div><div><font face="monospace"><br></font></div><font face="monospace">pipx install sphinx<br>pipx inject sphinx sphinx_rtd_theme docutils mistune requests sphinx-mdinclude<br><br></font><div>For some reason I was getting run-time python errors with m2r2 which is why I tried switching to mdinclude. <br><br>In docs/source/conf.py I changed<div> <font face="monospace">extensions = [ 'm2r2' ]</font> </div><div>to be 'sphinx_mdinclude' instead of 'm2r2'<br></div><div><br></div></div><div>The pipx command creates a virtual execution environment for sphinx and puts a shim for sphinx in your local path that runs it in the virtual environment.</div><div><br></div><div>//.ichael</div></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>OvmsDev mailing list<br></div><div><a href="mailto:OvmsDev@lists.openvehicles.com">OvmsDev@lists.openvehicles.com</a><br></div><div><a href="http://lists.openvehicles.com/mailman/listinfo/ovmsdev">http://lists.openvehicles.com/mailman/listinfo/ovmsdev</a><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span></span></div></body></html>