Re: [Health] unable to use python 2 on GNU Health Server machine

[Luis Falcon]

Dear Khurram 
On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 10:34:58 +0500
Khurram Shahzad <address@hidden> wrote:

> Dear Luis,
> 
> Thank you so much for your prompt response.
> 
> I was able to run the GNU Health client successfully and also
> connected it with the server.
> 
> Thank you so much for your support.
> 

Great ! Thanks a lot to you for the feedback.

All the best
Luis

> Best Regards,
> Khurram.
> 
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 12:25 AM, Luis Falcon <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Dear Khurram
> >
> > Thanks for  the feedback !
> >
> > On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 23:34:15 +0500
> > Khurram Shahzad <address@hidden> wrote:
> >  
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Today, I tried to install and run the version 3.2 of GNU Health. I
> > > followed the install guide on wikibooks which included following
> > > commands for Ubuntu for making Python 3 available:
> > >
> > > cd /usr/bin
> > > ln -si python3 python
> > > ln -si 2to3-3.5 2to3
> > >
> > >
> > > After running these commands, though I was able to successfully
> > > install GNU Health by running the setup but when I tried to
> > > install the GNU Health client, it requires following command to
> > > be run:
> > >
> > > pip2 install --user python-dateutil
> > >
> > >   Which fails as it requires pip2 and hence python 2 which is no
> > > more available in the system (using python command).  
> >
> > Both Python versions can co-exist on the system. In fact, pip2 is
> > for python2 and pip or pip3 is for python3.
> >
> > Did you install the client using pip
> > (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/gnuhealth-client/3.2.5 )
> >
> > That way you will have all the dependencies
> >
> > After you've made the installation, if you want to run the server
> > and the client in the same host, then you can do it in different
> > ways.
> >
> > Invoke the client using python2 (ie python2 ./gnuhealth-client )
> >
> > On the server side, if you want to revert to python2 as the
> > default python interpreter, you can revert it (ie, ln
> > -si /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python), and invoke the tryton server
> > using python3
> >
> > For example :
> > $ cdexe
> > $ python3 ./trytond
> >
> > That should take care of it. Let us know if that works for you.
> >
> > Bests
> > Luis
> >