I am trying since yesterday to install IfcOpenshell and it’s been quite a struggle. I am not a developer and i try to follow any possible scenario i understand it would work, following this thread and IfcOpenShell wiki mentioned at the first post and several forthcoming links. I use MX-AV linux 10 (buster). uname -r gives: 5.9.1-rt20av. freecad 0.20.1
First of all i tried to update my appimage version through the Properties–>appimage window, since i read that the recent appimage versions come with IfcOpenshell already installed. Although according to this my freecad version should have it installed also. Although i read the arguments that you should choose a version with the IfcOpenShell when installing somehow. Anyway, i receive an error after the new appimage has completed downloading saying: “Update failed for Freecad. The remote server requires authentication to serve the content, but the credentials provided were not accepted or given”.
As a second attempt i try to install pip, since typing “import ifcopenshell” in the freecad’s python console gives me:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
File "/tmp/.mount_FreeCA05xlAq/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/shiboken2/files.dir/shibokensupport/feature.py", line 139, in _import
return original_import(name, *args, **kwargs)
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ifcopenshell'
and i understand that i do not have it installed in the system. To install pip, firstly i type "
python -m ensurepip --upgrade
" in teminal which gives me:
ensurepip is disabled in Debian/Ubuntu for the system python.
Python modules For the system python are usually handled by dpkg and apt-get.
apt-get install python-<module name>
Install the python-pip package to use pip itself. Using pip together
with the system python might have unexpected results for any system installed
module, so use it on your own risk, or make sure to only use it in virtual
environments.
So i understand that i am pushed by the system to install the pip package. So i follow the second advice of https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installation/ webpage and i download the get.pip.py script from the suggested repository and type in terminal:
python get-pip.py
where i get a reply sayong that my system cannot use python 3, so i should install another link of pip (given in terminal reply) which runs on python2. In the beggining i do it and i run it:
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting pip<21.0
Downloading pip-20.3.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.5 MB)
|████████████████████████████████| 1.5 MB 1.6 MB/s
Collecting setuptools<45
Downloading setuptools-44.1.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (583 kB)
|████████████████████████████████| 583 kB 3.8 MB/s
Collecting wheel
Downloading wheel-0.37.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (35 kB)
Installing collected packages: pip, setuptools, wheel
I include this in my report because i also see py3 included and i am not sure what exactly is downloaded and if it should work. After i while i try to see how to download python3 thinking i don’t have it, but looking around my system i understand that it might as well be installed.
Lastly i tried a method shown in blenderbim.org website, downloading a pre-built package and trying to follow the directions, where i downloaded the Python 3.10 “py310-linux64”, since my freecad version uses Python 3.10.6 . But while i try to follow the direction i cannot get access to paste the unziped file to the suggested directory:
$ sudo cp -a /home/spiridonious/Downloads/ifcopenshell/. /tmp/.mount_FreeCA05xlAq/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/
[sudo] password for spiridonious:
cp: failed to access '/tmp/.mount_FreeCA05xlAq/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/': Permission denied
So my purpose is to have installed IfcOpenShell as less painfully as possible. Would maybe some of the above mentioned work, doing something more appropriately that i do wrong and i do not understand? Would it work if i uninstall freecad totally and install a newer proper version with IfcOpenShell somehow already truly included?
