I did just update from 6.11.1 to 6.11.5.

Ihave a few pip packages running so that the scripts I use can work properly.

 

In 6.11.1 the paho-mqtt worked flawless.

Now when i try to install it via pip3 install paho-mqtt I get this error:

Collecting paho-mqtt
  Using cached paho-mqtt-1.6.1.tar.gz (99 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
   command: /usr/bin/python3 -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-q2n_lrtx/paho-mqtt_4bc42d8c1fdd41d2b2b46d5e70e4bfe2/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-q2n_lrtx/paho-mqtt_4bc42d8c1fdd41d2b2b46d5e70e4bfe2/setup.py'"'"';f = getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__) if os.path.exists(__file__) else io.StringIO('"'"'from setuptools import setup; setup()'"'"');code = f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-l0w8az9o
       cwd: /tmp/pip-install-q2n_lrtx/paho-mqtt_4bc42d8c1fdd41d2b2b46d5e70e4bfe2/
  Complete output (11 lines):
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
    File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 18, in <module>
      from setuptools.dist import Distribution
    File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 38, in <module>
      from setuptools import windows_support
    File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/windows_support.py", line 2, in <module>
      import ctypes
    File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/ctypes/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
      from _ctypes import Union, Structure, Array
  ImportError: libffi.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
  ----------------------------------------
WARNING: Discarding https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/f8/dd/4b75dcba025f8647bc9862ac17299e0d7d12d3beadbf026d8c8d74215c12/paho-mqtt-1.6.1.tar.gz#sha256=2a8291c81623aec00372b5a85558a372c747cbca8e9934dfe218638b8eefc26f (from https://pypi.org/simple/paho-mqtt/). Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

      
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement paho-mqtt (from versions: 0.4.90, 0.4.91, 0.4.92, 0.4.94, 0.9, 0.9.1, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.4.0, 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.6.0, 1.6.1)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for paho-mqtt

 

Apparently the Distro changed from 6.11.1 to 6.11.5...

 

Andy

Edited November 24, 20223 yr by gekoch

ok solved it by installing libffi

 

wget -P /boot/extra/ https://slackware.uk/slackware/slackware64-15.0/slackware64/l/libffi-3.3-x86_64-3.txz

installpkg /boot/extra/libffi-3.3-x86_64-3.txz

Edited November 24, 20223 yr by gekoch