Re: Installation problem

Can you try that installation again but use pipenv to do the install?
Another possibility I read about recently but haven't tried is poetry.
The pipenv creates a shell for the app and you run it inside that shell.
To do that you'd run pipenv getmail followed by any parameters once
getmail is installed.  After installing pipenv run pipenv install getmail
to get pipenv to install getmail for you.


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I use jrnl and that installs fine using pipenv but debian and other
distros haven't got that as a standard package and if installed using any
version of pip jrnl fails to run.  I hope this helps.
 On Fri, 21 Jul 2023, Ron Guerin wrote:

> I'm trying to install getmail-5.16 on Debian 12.=C2=A0 I followed the ins=
tructions
> for using the AppImage since Debian no longer distributes Python2.
>
> The build step completes without complaint, but the install step throws a=
n
> error:
>
> # python2 setup.py install
> running install
> running build
> running build_py
> running build_scripts
> running install_lib
> creating
> /tmp/.mount_pythonD2zssp/opt/python2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/getmai=
lcore
> error: could not create
> '/tmp/.mount_pythonD2zssp/opt/python2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/getma=
ilcore':
> Read-only file system
>
> As I can manually create this directory, the problem is something other t=
han
> /tmp being a read-only filesystem.
>
> I haven't been able to find any information about this in the list archiv=
es or
> in Google.=C2=A0 I suspect this is related to using the AppImage.=C2=A0 A=
ny pointers
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
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