I’m having a hell of a time trying to get zap2epg working and in being in contact with the author, it looks like somehow I have Python 2.7 AND Python 3 and also a module called “ElementTree” is missing. According to him, it is a pretty standard module that is normally included with Python 2.7 or Python 3.
Here’s what he said
OK - here’s the other weird thing - you’re still seeing python 2.7 instead of python 3. You’re system is getting confused on which python modules to run.
Does the Vero OSMC version allow you to uninstall python 2.7 and only have python 3 installed?
As you can see in the log - the the current failing issue is the missing ElementTree module. I don’t know why this would be missing as it is a standard python module that should be in the python 2.7 installation. OSMC must be customizing their python installs with only the modules they feel are necessary. --Perhaps someone in the OSMC space know how to add that module?
Is there a way get rid of Python 2.7 (assuming it isn’t needed with the latest version of OSMC) or just reinstalling them. Something has clearly gone wrong and while I dread having wipe out my Vero4K and start fresh, I’m thinking I might have to (as a last resort).
I’m not very confident this will help, but you could try uninstalling all add ons that were disabled by the upgrade, and then going into Settings / System / Add Ons / Manage Dependencies and uninstalling anything that is listed as Orphaned.
Thanks for your suggestion and I can definitely give it a try later tonight, but was hoping for some sort of command to reinstall Python or check the integrity of system files or something.
Fair enough, but something is clearly wrong with the Python installation and before I nuke the whole thing, I’d like to try reinstalling Python or somehow checking its integrity.
Kodi uses it’s own Python interpreter. On some Linux environments (so OSMC might be in that group), it does use the Python version installed, but it is a virtualized instance of Python specifically for Kodi. Even though OSMC has both Python 3.x and Python 2.x, with Kodi 19, Kodi will ONLY use Python3. There is absolutely no way Kodi 19 would be spinning up a Python 2.x environment.
You could try running apt to install python3, but I won’t be surprised if OSMC says it’s already installed.
osmc@osmc-lr:~$ sudo apt install python3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python3 is already the newest version (3.7.3-1).
python3 set to manually installed.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
python-apt python-certifi python-chardet python-dbus python-gi python-gobject python-gobject-2 python-idna
python-pexpect python-pil python-pkg-resources python-ptyprocess python-requests python-six python-unidecode
python-urllib3 wireless-firmware-osmc
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
If there is no way Kodi 19 is using Python 2.x, is there a similar command to uninstall that version of Python? Is it even advisable to do so?
FYI, I tried running apt and it went as you predicted
osmc@Vero4k:~$ sudo apt install python3
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
python3 is already the newest version (3.7.3-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
osmc@Vero4k:~$
Running python -vgives me a huge rundown of info, all of which points to version 2.7.
If I run ls /usr/bin/python*, I seem to have several versions installed.
Continuing with the instructions, I tried running update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python2.7 1 and ...3.7 2 and it gives me a permission error
Just to be sure, I ran python -v again and it’s still stuck on 2.7.
osmc@Vero4k:~$ python3
Python 3.7.3 (default, Jan 22 2021, 20:04:44)
[GCC 8.3.0] on linux
Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information.
It didn’t appear to do anything…in a good way. It just accepted the command. However, when I run the zap2epg module within Tvheadend, the log mentions no ElementTree in Python 2.7, so for some reason it is stuck on using the old version of Python.
I did previously try to change the update-alternative to give more importance to Python3.7, but it have a permission error.
