[SOLVED] Python module versions out of sync

3rensho · 11-21-2021, 02:25 AM

With the changing of Python versions recently my versions as root user seem to be out of sync. If I run

Code:

pip3 list -o

I see

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Package          Version Latest      Type
---------------- ------- ----------- -----
cassandra-driver 3.24.0  3.25.0      sdist
Cheetah3         3.2.6   3.2.6.post1 wheel
coloredlogs      15.0    15.0.1      wheel
cvdupdate        0.2.0   1.0.2       wheel
decorator        5.0.7   5.1.0       wheel
docker           4.3.1   5.0.3       wheel
Glances          3.2.4   3.2.4.1     wheel
humanfriendly    9.1     10.0        wheel
influxdb         5.3.0   5.3.1       wheel
MarkupSafe       1.1.1   2.0.1       wheel
msgpack          0.6.1   1.0.2       wheel
netifaces        0.10.9  0.11.0      wheel
pika             1.1.0   1.2.0       wheel
protonvpn-cli    2.2.7   2.2.11      wheel
psutil           5.7.3   5.8.0       wheel
py-cpuinfo       7.0.0   8.0.0       sdist
PyQt5_sip        4.19.25 12.9.0      wheel
python-dateutil  2.8.1   2.8.2       wheel
pythondialog     3.5.1   3.5.2       wheel
pytz             2020.4  2021.3      wheel
pyzmq            19.0.2  22.3.0      wheel
style            1.1.0   1.1.6       wheel
wheel            0.33.0  0.37.0      wheel

However I looked in

~/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages# and all of the package versions listed above are the latest versions and not the older versions seemingly requiring an update. I've been trying to find where "pip3 list -o" is picking up these seemingly older versions when in fact they don't exist. I've searched the entire /root and didn't find anything listing these older versions. Any ideas??

giomat · 11-21-2021, 04:59 AM

how did you install these packages? did you use pip or slackbuilds?

3rensho · 11-21-2021, 05:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by giomat

how did you install these packages? did you use pip or slackbuilds?

I used pip for the installs

3rensho · 11-22-2021, 03:36 AM

OK found out where the older versions are being picked up. They are in /usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages. So for the root user I have up to date packages in ~/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages and I am at a loss to know how some of these older packages got into /usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages. They aren't included in the newest Python-3.9 package from Slackware, there is no Slackbuild for python-humanfriendly for instance. I guess as a cluge I could copy the up to date packages from ~/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages to the /usr/lib64 area/... Will do some more playing to get things synced but I answered my original question so will leaved this as solved.

chrisVV · 11-22-2021, 06:29 AM

Presumably you installed some python packages as root using pip without the --user option, so they didn't go in root's home directory, possibly combined with the --upgrade option.

Each to their own, but I would never install packages in root's home directory to begin with. Why not install in /usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages in the normal way, preferably as a slackware package? (The '--root=/tmp/my-package' option for 'pip install' can help when making up slackware packages, although I accept that that's less useful when you want pip to install dependencies automatically for you.)

3rensho · 11-22-2021, 07:02 AM

Thanks for the note. Quite possibly what I did in the distant past. Live and (hopefully) learn.