speedtest-cli stopped working today?

[Tony Arnold]

Peter,

On Tue, 2021-04-13 at 16:32 +0100, Peter Flynn wrote:
> On 12/04/2021 22:45, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> > On 4/12/21 4:14 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> > > On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 at 23:07, Jim Byrnes <
> > > jf_byrnes at comcast.net
> > > > wrote:
> > > > People used to recommend not removing python2 because there
> > > > were still
> > > > system scripts using it. I don't know how relevant that is now.
> > > 
> > > Sure, but the OP said it was not installed and that he installed
> > > it.
> 
> I should have been more accurate. I originally typed
> 
> $ python setup.py
> python: command not found.
> 
> Then
> 
> $ sudo apt install python
> 
> led me down a rabbit-hole that revealed there are actually three
> packages:
> 
> python
> python-is-python2
> python-is-python3
> 
> which are packages to get you the right version; but by default,
> although apparently mint 20.1 installs python3 correctly, it does NOT
> provide the simple command "python".

Never has done on Linux, or at least on Ubuntu. The command 'python'
has always meant python 2. 'python3' means version 3.

And previously python 2 was installed by default an python3 was an
extra. That's change around now.

> None of them provide anything called 'setuptools'. However, there
> does
> appear to be a package called python3-setuptools which installs OK.

That's correct. setuptools is not a requirement for python3, so it
needs installing separately.

> However, Python is less than useful about installation. Having
> unzipped
> speedtest-cli-master.zip, typing
> 
> $ python setup.py
> 
> gets me the error message:
> 
> usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
>    or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
>    or: setup.py --help-commands
>    or: setup.py cmd --help
> 
> error: no commands supplied

The way to install packages that use setup tools is to do:

$ pip3 install .

where . is the directory where setup.py can be found.

Even this i no longer the recommended syntax! The 'modern' syntax is to
use this

$ python3 -m pip install .

This is all well documented if not that intuitive.

> However, the README does contain THE most important piece of
> information: download the speedtest-cli-py and make it executable.
> End of story.

HaHa! Yes RTFM is always a good idea!

Regards,
Tony.
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