FAHControl won't install on CentOS 8

[oilyfishhead]

Computer specs:
2 * Xeon E5-2695v4, 18/36 cores/threads each
256G RAM
Nvidia GTX 1060
2 * Nvidia Tesla M60
2 * Nvidia Tesla T4

Network Connection: 8M DSL, No firewall or proxy
Operating System: CentOS 8, Latest updates applied
Overclocked?: No
Stable?: Yes
Software: 7.5.1-1
WU details: I have no idea what this means.

When I run

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rpm -i fahcontrol-7.5.1-1.noarch.rpm

it returns ;

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/usr/bin/python is needed by fahcontrol-7.5.1-1.noarch
python is needed by fahcontrol-7.5.1-1.noarch

python2 and python36 are installed.

fahclient and fahviewer are running fine.

I tried;

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cd /usr/lib
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/python2.7 /usr/lib/python2.6
sudo cp -R /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/fah /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/fah

cp returns;

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cp: cannot stat '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/fah' : No such file or directory

Any ideas?

[foldy]

Something like that?
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python2

[oilyfishhead]

Thanks for the response.

/usr/bin/python and /usr/bin/python2 already exist so the symbolic link cannot be created.

[pr0ti3n]

On Linux I had a better time using the Github repo for fah-control. Just follow the README.md
https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-control

[oilyfishhead]

The README.md says run

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python FAHControl 

It returns;

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[root@localhost fah-control-master]# python FAHControl
Gtk-Message: 17:13:42.106: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "FAHControl", line 25, in <module>
    from fah import FAHControl, load_fahcontrol_db
  File "/home/thehawk/Downloads/fah-contol/fah-control-master/fah/__init__.py", line 27, in <module>
    from Version import *
ImportError: No module named Version 

A search on canberra shows 2 files, libcanberra-gtk2-module.so and canbera-gtk2-module.desktop.

[mat2]

The canberra warning is probably harmless.

Quick search for "ImportError: No module named Version" suggested that it has something to do with the Python version. I would try running

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python2 FAHControl

.

I know that it is substandard, but FAHClient can be controlled from the command line, by typing:

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telnet localhost 36330

- write "help" to get a list of commands.
Logs can be found in /var/lib/fahclient.

[pr0ti3n]

Yeah like mat2 says its a python problem. I tested the python3 port this morning on Fedora31 and it works fine.
https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-control/pull/56

[oilyfishhead]

Thanks for the link.

I ran

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python2 setup.py build

and that fixed it.

[gw666]

There is no longer a /usr/bin/python on EL8, only /usr/bin/python2 and /usr/bin/python3, so the package deps cannot be resolved. The package must be adapted for EL8 or installed with --nodeps.