[mythtv] Additional run-time dependencies

[Mark Spieth]

On 8/18/2017 12:02 AM, Bill Meek wrote:
> On 08/17/2017 08:39 AM, David Hampton wrote:
>> On Thu, 2017-08-17 at 08:21 -0400, Peter Bennett wrote:
>>> Hi Thomas
>>>
>>> There is a change coming soon in MythTV that will require some
>>> additional run-time dependencies to be installed. The change is to
>>> the
>>> python bindings and ttvbd.py. The change is required to be done
>>> before
>>> October 1st otherwise metadata will fail.
>>>
>>> Packages that include python bindings or ttvdb.py will need the
>>> following additional package installed:
>>>
>>> python-pip
>>>
>>> Also after the install this needs to be run (by root):
>>>
>>> pip install --upgrade future requests_cache requests
>>>
>>> I suggest getting these in soon, so that when we commit the code
>>> change
>>> the dependencies will be installed before or with the code change.
>>> The
>>> dependencies can be installed before the code change without causing
>>> any
>>> problem, however installing the code change without the dependencies
>>> will cause metadata jobs to fail.
>>
>> Peter,
>>
>> This wants to install a bunch of dev packages on my production machine.
>>
>> selene$ sudo apt-get install python-pip
>> [sudo] password for david:
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> The following additional packages will be installed:
>>    build-essential dpkg-dev fakeroot g++ g++-5 libalgorithm-diff-perl
>>    libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl libalgorithm-merge-perl libexpat1-dev
>>    libfakeroot libpython-all-dev libpython-dev libpython2.7-dev
>>    libstdc++-5-dev python-all python-all-dev python-dev python-pip-whl
>>    python-setuptools python-wheel python2.7-dev
>> Suggested packages:
>>    debian-keyring g++-multilib g++-5-multilib gcc-5-doc libstdc++6-5-dbg
>>    libstdc++-5-doc python-setuptools-doc
>>
>> Is there something being installed through pip that can't be gotten
>> from an existing package?
>>
>> David
>
> Checking to to see if a distribution has the packages:
>
> In Mythbuntu 14.04 (I really have a box with that loaded),
> these aren't found:
>
> $ sudo apt-cache search python-requests-cache
> $ sudo apt-cache search python-future
>
> I chose to use pip to get them. And did the same to get an
> up-to-date urllib3.
>
> This what I've been testing with on the 14.04 box:
>
> $ pip show future requests requests-cache urllib3
> ---
> Name: future
> Version: 0.16.0
> Location: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
> Requires:
> ---
> Name: requests
> Version: 2.18.3
> Location: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
> Requires: certifi, chardet, urllib3, idna
> ---
> Name: requests-cache
> Version: 0.4.13
> Location: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
> Requires: requests
> ---
> Name: urllib3
> Version: 1.22
> Location: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
> Requires:
>
what you can do is

apt-get update
apt-cache madison python-requests

and it will show you what is available.

yes python-future is required too, may not be installed. provides compat 
with py3.
mark