On 8/8/21 5:12 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: > Hi, I am trying to install the ssspsk python module using pip for python > 2 (for tuya-convert) but its not working. > > I have installed python 2.7 from portage and followed the wiki (set > python_targets, emerge -NuDv etc.), however pip seems to only know how > to install for python3. > > For python 2.7 do I need to go completely manual for installation? > > BillK > Gentoo's dev-lang/python package configures Python --without-ensurepip, meaning that pip will not be installed alongside this package by default. There is a separate dev-python/pip package providing pip, but it appears this package only supports Python 3 targets (which is reasonable as 2.7 is no longer supported upstream).
If you *really* need Python 2.7, you could modify the ebuild of dev-lang/python-2.7 to enable --with-ensurepip, or you could try to make the dev-python/pip package support the python2_7 target, or you could download the source from python.org and configure/build it yourself into a separate directory. However, it is probably worth first checking if there is a release of the software you want to use that supports Python 3 instead. cal
