# Installing pyfa on ubuntu 18.04+ **URL:** \ **Category:** Linux\ **Created:** [August 9, 2018, 3:41pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/installing-pyfa-on-ubuntu-18-04/96658 "2018-08-09T15:41:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anderson\_Geten](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/anderson_geten/32/390041_2.png) [@Anderson\_Geten](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Anderson_Geten)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 3:41pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/installing-pyfa-on-ubuntu-18-04/96658/1 "2018-08-09T15:41:03Z")
I struggled to install pyfa, so once I succeeded I wrote all I had to do in order for pyfa to be functional on my ubuntu station. pyfa is installed per user, and available in bash. If you want to create a real program to open files with, this is not my concern. If you don’t use ubuntu, not in the scope. ## Install run those commands in bash to install pyfa. You may have issue with pip3 , see below. The lines starting with # are comments, run them or not won’t have any impact. ``` #install ubuntu dependencies and pip3 sudo apt install python3-pip python-wxgtk4.0 python3-wxgtk-webview4.0 # install pip dependencies for pyfa. The -U requests to update them if already installed pip3 install -U --user bs4 cryptography logbook markdown2 matplotlib packaging pip python-dateutil pyyaml roman sqlalchemy # create a directory for pyfa and clone the git project inside mkdir -p "$HOME/bin" git clone https://github.com/pyfa-org/Pyfa.git "$HOME/bin/pyfa" # add the pyfa command to your bash aliases echo $'\n'"alias pyfa=\"python3 $HOME/bin/pyfa/pyfa.py\"" >> $HOME/.bash_aliases echo $'\n'"alias pyfaup=\"cd \\\"$HOME/bin/pyfa\\\" && git pull\"" >> $HOME/.bash_aliases source "$HOME/.bashrc" ``` ## Run PYFA and update it Just type in bash `pyfa` to start it. To update, run `pyfaup` ## pip3 error if error with “can’t import main” ``` sudo gedit /usr/bin/pip3 ``` l9 replace “from pip import main” by “from pip.\_internal import main” ## “no module named X” or “import error” if this error arises, you need to run the pip dependencies installation command again * * * Tell me if more errors (likely missing apt install or pip3 install). edit : need pip3 matplotlib for graphs edit : /usr/bin/pip3 edit : python-dateutil from pip, not dateutil . also corrected apt install ligtk3 edit : added packaging , pip as pip install ; moved wxwidget as apt install (easier) edit : issue with no module named pip3 that I already had solved edit : added bs4 in pip3 requirement. edit : added -U in the pip install. Placed pyyaml in the original dependencies installation instead of “on issue” ---
**Author:** ![player\_1\_ready](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/player_1_ready/32/90278_2.png) [@player\_1\_ready](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/player_1_ready)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2018, 10:31pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/installing-pyfa-on-ubuntu-18-04/96658/2 "2018-08-11T22:31:42Z")
sudo gedit / **usr** /bin/pip3 ? ---
**Author:** ![Anderson\_Geten](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/anderson_geten/32/390041_2.png) [@Anderson\_Geten](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Anderson_Geten)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2018, 2:04am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/installing-pyfa-on-ubuntu-18-04/96658/3 "2018-08-12T02:04:10Z")
corrected, thx ---
**Author:** ![Gisele\_Serebriakova](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gisele_serebriakova/32/38527_2.png) [@Gisele\_Serebriakova](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gisele_Serebriakova)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/installing-pyfa-on-ubuntu-18-04/96658/4 "2018-09-08T15:40:07Z")
I get, ```auto Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package libgtk3 pyfainstall.txt: line 2: pip3: command not found pyfainstall.txt: line 4: git: command not found ``` This is me missing pip3 install? ---
**Author:** ![Whitehound](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/whitehound/32/59604_2.png) [@Whitehound](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Whitehound)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2018, 6:35pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/installing-pyfa-on-ubuntu-18-04/96658/5 "2018-09-08T18:35:59Z")
> [@Gisele\_Serebriakova](#): > > This is me missing pip3 install? Yes. See what he wrote above: > [@Anderson\_Geten](#): > > `sudo apt install python3-pip libgtk3 python3-wxgtk-webview4.0` It means you’ll have to install some packages first. So you’ll need a package called `python3-pip` and `python3-git` I’m assuming. Although he hasn’t listed the later. Could be you only need `git` itself and not the Python module on top of it. And since it says `E: Unable to locate package libgtk3` did you also not install `libgtk3` or `libgtk-3.0` (depending on your distro can the exact names vary a little). ---
**Author:** ![Gisele\_Serebriakova](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gisele_serebriakova/32/38527_2.png) [@Gisele\_Serebriakova](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gisele_Serebriakova)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 10:09pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/installing-pyfa-on-ubuntu-18-04/96658/6 "2018-09-11T22:09:04Z")
Now I get, ```auto Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package libgtk3 ``` and ```auto bash pyfainstall.txt Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package libgtk3 Collecting cryptography Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/59/32/92cade62c645756a83598edf56289e9b19aae5370642a7ce690cd06bc72f/cryptography-2.3.1-cp34-abi3-manylinux1_x86_64.whl Collecting dateutil Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement dateutil (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for dateutil Cloning into '/home/daniel/bin/pyfa'... remote: Counting objects: 49740, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (117/117), done. remote: Total 49740 (delta 98), reused 81 (delta 39), pack-reused 49584 Receiving objects: 100% (49740/49740), 407.59 MiB | 3.10 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (33994/33994), done. `` ``` ---
**Author:** ![Shochu\_Kampai](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/shochu_kampai/32/199495_2.png) [@Shochu\_Kampai](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Shochu_Kampai)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2018, 1:55pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/installing-pyfa-on-ubuntu-18-04/96658/7 "2018-09-13T13:55:33Z")
Try: sudo apt install libgtk3.0 ---
**Author:** ![Gisele\_Serebriakova](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gisele_serebriakova/32/38527_2.png) [@Gisele\_Serebriakova](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gisele_Serebriakova)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 12:49am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/installing-pyfa-on-ubuntu-18-04/96658/8 "2018-09-14T00:49:00Z")
> [@Shochu\_Kampai](#): > > sudo apt install libgtk3.0 The install thinks I have the file ```auto daniel@uH2:~/Desktop$ sudo apt install libgtk3.0 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Note, selecting 'libgtk3.0-cil-dev' for regex 'libgtk3.0' Note, selecting 'libgtk3.0-cil' for regex 'libgtk3.0' libgtk3.0-cil is already the newest version (2.99.3-2). libgtk3.0-cil-dev is already the newest version (2.99.3-2). The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: fonts-wine libllvm6.0 libllvm6.0:i386 libnvidia-common-396 libpoppler-qt5-1 libqt5designercomponents5 libwine libwine:i386 libwine-development libwine-development:i386 ocl-icd-libopencl1:i386 qt5-assistant qttools5-dev-tools wine-stable wine-stable-amd64 wine-stable-i386:i386 wine32:i386 wine32-development:i386 wine64 wine64-development Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded. ``` No change in the scripts output ```auto daniel@uH2:~/Desktop$ bash pyfainstall.txt [sudo] password for daniel: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package libgtk3 Collecting cryptography Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/59/32/92cade62c645756a83598edf56289e9b19aae5370642a7ce690cd06bc72f/cryptography-2.3.1-cp34-abi3-manylinux1_x86_64.whl Collecting dateutil Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement dateutil (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for dateutil Cloning into '/home/daniel/bin/pyfa'... remote: Counting objects: 51322, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1688/1688), done. remote: Total 51322 (delta 108), reused 1660 (delta 50), pack-reused 49584 Receiving objects: 100% (51322/51322), 412.60 MiB | 16.27 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (34004/34004), done. ``` ---
**Author:** ![Anderson\_Geten](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/anderson_geten/32/390041_2.png) [@Anderson\_Geten](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Anderson_Geten)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 3:56am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/installing-pyfa-on-ubuntu-18-04/96658/9 "2018-09-16T03:56:54Z")
you are missing the dateutil. > [@Anderson\_Geten](#): > > pip3 install --user cryptography dateutil this is mandatory and brings the dateutil packages to python. * * * > [@Whitehound](#): > > Although he hasn’t listed the later because python3-git is not mandatory. ---
**Author:** ![Gisele\_Serebriakova](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gisele_serebriakova/32/38527_2.png) [@Gisele\_Serebriakova](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gisele_Serebriakova)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 12:22am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/installing-pyfa-on-ubuntu-18-04/96658/10 "2018-09-18T00:22:36Z")
```auto daniel@uH2:~$ pip3 install --user cryptography dateutil Collecting cryptography Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/59/32/92cade62c645756a83598edf56289e9b19aae5370642a7ce690cd06bc72f/cryptography-2.3.1-cp34-abi3-manylinux1_x86_64.whl Collecting dateutil Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement dateutil (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for dateutil daniel@uH2:~$ cd /home/daniel/Desktop ``` No change in the scripts output. That should be expected though. I tried to install dateutil by other means: ```auto daniel@uH2:~/Desktop$ apt-cache search python3-dateutil 'python3-dateutil - powerful extensions to the standard Python 3 datetime module daniel@uH2:~/Desktop$ sudo apt-get install python3-dateutil Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done python3-dateutil is already the newest version (2.6.1-1). The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: fonts-wine icedtea-netx-common junit junit4 libcommons-collections3-java libcommons-math-java libfreehep-export-java libfreehep-graphics2d-java libfreehep-graphicsio-emf-java libfreehep-graphicsio-java libfreehep-graphicsio-pdf-java libfreehep-graphicsio-svg-java libfreehep-graphicsio-tests-java libfreehep-io-java libfreehep-swing-java libfreehep-util-java libfreehep-xml-java libhamcrest-java libjas-java libjas-plotter-java libjaxen-java libjcommon-java libjdom1-java libjfreechart-java libjfugue-java libjlatexmath-java libllvm6.0 libllvm6.0:i386 liblog4j1.2-java libnb-org-openide-util-java libnb-org-openide-util-lookup-java libnvidia-common-396 libpoppler-qt5-1 libqt5designercomponents5 librhino-java libtablelayout-java libwine libwine:i386 libwine-development libwine-development:i386 libxerces2-java libxml-commons-external-java libxml-commons-resolver1.1-java libxom-java mathpiper ocl-icd-libopencl1:i386 qt5-assistant qttools5-dev-tools wine-stable wine-stable-amd64 wine-stable-i386:i386 wine32:i386 wine32-development:i386 wine64 wine64-development Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 22 not upgraded. daniel@uH2:~/Desktop$ pip install python-dateutil Collecting python-dateutil Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/cf/f5/af2b09c957ace60dcfac112b669c45c8c97e32f94aa8b56da4c6d1682825/python_dateutil-2.7.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl (211kB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 215kB 4.3MB/s Collecting six>=1.5 (from python-dateutil) Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/67/4b/141a581104b1f6397bfa78ac9d43d8ad29a7ca43ea90a2d863fe3056e86a/six-1.11.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl Installing collected packages: six, python-dateutil Successfully installed python-dateutil-2.7.3 six-1.11.0 ``` Looks like it’s already installed. ---
**Author:** ![MorsMortis\_Shiyurida](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/morsmortis_shiyurida/32/447847_2.png) [@MorsMortis\_Shiyurida](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/MorsMortis_Shiyurida)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 5:30pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/installing-pyfa-on-ubuntu-18-04/96658/11 "2018-09-24T17:30:35Z")
When running pyfa after following the instructions I receive the below error. pyfa v2.4.0 (git) EVE Data Version: 1369747 (2018-08-21 20:33:06) OS version: Linux-4.15.0-34-generic-x86\_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic Python version: 3.6.6 (default, Sep 12 2018, 18:26:19) [GCC 8.0.1 20180414 (experimental) [trunk revision 259383]] wxPython version: 4.0.1 (wxWidgets 3.0.4) SQLAlchemy version: 1.2.12 Logbook version: 1.4.0 Requests version: 2.18.4 Dateutil version: 2.7.3 #################### Traceback (most recent call last): File “/home/viking/bin/pyfa/pyfa.py”, line 131, in from gui.mainFrame import MainFrame File “/home/viking/bin/pyfa/gui/mainFrame.py”, line 72, in from service.update import Update File “/home/viking/bin/pyfa/service/update.py”, line 33, in from packaging.version import Version ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘packaging’ If I close that and run the python script I get the below error: $ ./pyfa.py Traceback (most recent call last): File “./pyfa.py”, line 27, in import config File “/home/viking/bin/pyfa/config.py”, line 4, in from logbook import CRITICAL, DEBUG, ERROR, FingersCrossedHandler, INFO, Logger, NestedSetup, NullHandler, ImportError: No module named logbook What did I do or not do? I know that logbook is installed by the following: $ pip3 list DEPRECATION: The default format will switch to columns in the future. You can use --format=(legacy|columns) (or define a format=(legacy|columns) in your pip.conf under the [list] section) to disable this warning. apturl (0.5.2) asn1crypto (0.24.0) Brlapi (0.6.6) certifi (2018.1.18) chardet (3.0.4) command-not-found (0.3) cryptography (2.1.4) cupshelpers (1.0) cycler (0.10.0) defer (1.0.6) distro-info (0.18) evdev (0.7.0) httplib2 (0.9.2) idna (2.6) keyring (10.6.0) keyrings.alt (3.0) kiwisolver (1.0.1) language-selector (0.1) launchpadlib (1.10.6) lazr.restfulclient (0.13.5) lazr.uri (1.0.3) Logbook (1.4.0) louis (3.5.0) lutris (0.4.19) macaroonbakery (1.1.3) Mako (1.0.7) markdown2 (2.3.5) MarkupSafe (1.0) matplotlib (3.0.0) numpy (1.15.2) oauth (1.0.1) olefile (0.45.1) pexpect (4.2.1) Pillow (5.1.0) pip (9.0.1) protobuf (3.0.0) pycairo (1.16.2) pycrypto (2.6.1) pycups (1.9.73) pygobject (3.26.1) pymacaroons (0.13.0) PyNaCl (1.1.2) pyparsing (2.2.1) Pypubsub (4.0.0) pyRFC3339 (1.0) python-apt (1.6.2) python-dateutil (2.7.3) python-debian (0.1.32) pytz (2018.3) pyxattr (0.6.0) pyxdg (0.25) PyYAML (3.12) reportlab (3.4.0) requests (2.18.4) requests-unixsocket (0.1.5) roman (3.0) SecretStorage (2.3.1) setuptools (40.4.3) simplejson (3.13.2) six (1.11.0) SQLAlchemy (1.2.12) system-service (0.3) systemd-python (234) ubuntu-drivers-common (0.0.0) ufw (0.35) unattended-upgrades (0.1) urllib3 (1.22) usb-creator (0.3.3) wadllib (1.3.2) wheel (0.30.0) wxPython (4.0.1) xkit (0.0.0) youtube-dl (2018.3.14) zope.interface (4.3.2) ---
**Author:** ![Anderson\_Geten](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/anderson_geten/32/390041_2.png) [@Anderson\_Geten](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Anderson_Geten)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 8:02pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/installing-pyfa-on-ubuntu-18-04/96658/12 "2018-09-24T20:02:49Z")
my bad, I corrected the OP. the requirement is python-dateutil, not dateutil. ---
**Author:** ![Anderson\_Geten](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/anderson_geten/32/390041_2.png) [@Anderson\_Geten](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Anderson_Geten)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 8:05pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/installing-pyfa-on-ubuntu-18-04/96658/13 "2018-09-24T20:05:29Z")
hmm I made a few mistakes in OP, try again ? ---
**Author:** ![MorsMortis\_Shiyurida](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/morsmortis_shiyurida/32/447847_2.png) [@MorsMortis\_Shiyurida](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/MorsMortis_Shiyurida)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 11:50am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/installing-pyfa-on-ubuntu-18-04/96658/14 "2018-10-01T11:50:54Z")
Sorry for the late response. Below is the error that I am still receiving. It appears to be the same one as before. pyfa v2.4.0 (git) EVE Data Version: 1369747 (2018-08-21 20:33:06) OS version: Linux-4.15.0-34-generic-x86\_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic Python version: 3.6.6 (default, Sep 12 2018, 18:26:19) [GCC 8.0.1 20180414 (experimental) [trunk revision 259383]] wxPython version: 4.0.1 (wxWidgets 3.0.4) SQLAlchemy version: 1.2.12 Logbook version: 1.4.0 Requests version: 2.18.4 Dateutil version: 2.7.3 #################### Traceback (most recent call last): File “/home/viking/bin/pyfa/pyfa.py”, line 131, in from gui.mainFrame import MainFrame File “/home/viking/bin/pyfa/gui/mainFrame.py”, line 72, in from service.update import Update File “/home/viking/bin/pyfa/service/update.py”, line 33, in from packaging.version import Version ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘packaging’ ---
**Author:** ![Anderson\_Geten](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/anderson_geten/32/390041_2.png) [@Anderson\_Geten](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Anderson_Geten)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 12:02pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/installing-pyfa-on-ubuntu-18-04/96658/15 "2018-10-01T12:02:26Z")
pip3 --version ? BTW this script worked for me (almost), I’m not a dev who want to spend time for people so please if you have a solution post it. ---
**Author:** ![MorsMortis\_Shiyurida](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/morsmortis_shiyurida/32/447847_2.png) [@MorsMortis\_Shiyurida](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/MorsMortis_Shiyurida)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 12:18pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/installing-pyfa-on-ubuntu-18-04/96658/16 "2018-10-01T12:18:39Z")
python3-pip/bionic-updates,bionic-updates,now 9.0.1-2.3~ubuntu1 all [installed] ---
**Author:** ![Anderson\_Geten](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/anderson_geten/32/390041_2.png) [@Anderson\_Geten](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Anderson_Geten)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 1:09pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/installing-pyfa-on-ubuntu-18-04/96658/17 "2018-10-01T13:09:48Z")
this is not what I asked for. Please do exactly how I ask otherwise this is a loss of time for you and me Anyhow there is not a lot I can do, it works for me so I guess you have to tinker until you find the solution. ---
**Author:** ![MorsMortis\_Shiyurida](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/morsmortis_shiyurida/32/447847_2.png) [@MorsMortis\_Shiyurida](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/MorsMortis_Shiyurida)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2018, 11:28am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/installing-pyfa-on-ubuntu-18-04/96658/18 "2018-10-02T11:28:20Z")
Sorry about that. I had to find the correct command. ~$ pip3 --version pip 18.0 from /home/viking/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip (python 3.6) ---
**Author:** ![Nana\_Skalski](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/nana_skalski/32/489985_2.png) [@Nana\_Skalski](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Nana_Skalski)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2018, 12:12pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/installing-pyfa-on-ubuntu-18-04/96658/19 "2018-10-02T12:12:43Z")
I just unzip and when it is microsoft it just works for me. ---
**Author:** ![Anderson\_Geten](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/anderson_geten/32/390041_2.png) [@Anderson\_Geten](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Anderson_Geten)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2018, 8:48am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/installing-pyfa-on-ubuntu-18-04/96658/20 "2018-10-05T08:48:00Z")
Why are you logged as root ? Some programs are supposed to be used as non-root user and will behave badly if you do so. [Next page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/installing-pyfa-on-ubuntu-18-04/96658.md?page=2)