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Συντάκτης: o1bigtenor
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Υ/ο: Devuan ML
Αντικείμενο: Re: [DNG] Help needed - - running into issues with python and its tools
On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 2:48 PM o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor@???> wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 1:13 PM golinux via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>
>> On 2024-08-03 12:30, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
>> > Greetings
>> >
>> > Looking at ESP8266 and wanting to program it using micropython (really
>> > don't want to have to learn C++ (not enough hours in the day as it
>> > is!!)).
>> >
>> > One of the tools I need to be able to use is esptools - - well in the
>> > debian world you need to run that on either Devaun 3 or 5 - - - its
>> > just
>> > not available on devuan 4.
>> >
>> > Tried installing all the tools I need using downloads and .deb installs
>> > but
>> > then I need to have python3.12 and that's also not part of Devuan4.
>> >
>> > Not versed enough to set up a good venv (if that's possible) so that I
>> > could work in that specific venv and have my cake (and get to eat it
>> > too
>> > (grin!).
>> >
>> > Suggestions - - - ideas - - - please?
>> >
>> > TIA
>> >
>>
>> Have you checked to see if it's available in backports?
>
>
> Set up daedalus-backports and got :
>
> # apt install -t daedalus-backports esptool
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to locate package esptool
>
> (There seems to be more than an occasional 'skip a version' in
> the availability of some programs!)
>


Did find this though - - -

>Devuan Package Information
>Use * for globbing, or .* and friends for regex. (help

<https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/506921/what-kind-of-pattern-matching-does-apt-cache-allow-for-specifying-package-names>)
[sources.list used by this service
<https://pkginfo.devuan.org/sources.list.txt>]
>Results for package pattern: esptool
>esptool
>4.7.0+dfsg-0.1

<https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/package-query.html?c=package&q=esptool=4.7.0+dfsg-0.1>
>http://deb.devuan.org/merged ceres/main amd64
>http://deb.devuan.org/merged ceres/main i386
>http://deb.devuan.org/merged ceres/main arm64
>http://deb.devuan.org/merged ceres/main ppc64el
>http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur/main amd64


means that it will appear - - - just dunno when!

TIA