Newbie looking for help with code and lxml problems
 

Hello

This is my first ever post on LinuxQuestions!

I have been reading the following post: https://chrisramsay.co.uk/posts/2014...run-to-strava/

and also following the instructions on https://github.com/chrisramsay/mapmyrun2gpx

I would like to move my data from mapmyrun to strava. I don't know much about Linux. I am a Mac OSX user so have installed VirtualBox and installed both Ubuntu and Debian but have not had success running the code.

I have been searching online working out how to get root access to install packages and have installed apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev python-dev

The instructions say to run $ pip install -r requirements.txt but when I do the end chunk is highlighted red and I get an error.

Here is my error:

mapmyrun2gpx-master# pip install -r requirements.txt
Collecting lxml==3.4.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 1))
Using cached lxml-3.4.0.tar.gz
Installing collected packages: lxml
Found existing installation: lxml 3.7.1
Uninstalling lxml-3.7.1:
Successfully uninstalled lxml-3.7.1
Running setup.py install for lxml ... error
Complete output from command /usr/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-tdJud0/lxml/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-_vKEe_-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
Building lxml version 3.4.0.
Building without Cython.
Using build configuration of libxslt 1.1.29
/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'bugtrack_url'
warnings.warn(msg)
running install
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml
copying src/lxml/ElementInclude.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml
copying src/lxml/cssselect.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml
copying src/lxml/doctestcompare.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml
copying src/lxml/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml
copying src/lxml/builder.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml
copying src/lxml/sax.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml
copying src/lxml/usedoctest.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml
copying src/lxml/pyclasslookup.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml
copying src/lxml/_elementpath.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/includes
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/html
copying src/lxml/html/diff.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/html
copying src/lxml/html/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/html
copying src/lxml/html/_diffcommand.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/html
copying src/lxml/html/_html5builder.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/html
copying src/lxml/html/formfill.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/html
copying src/lxml/html/soupparser.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/html
copying src/lxml/html/builder.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/html
copying src/lxml/html/defs.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/html
copying src/lxml/html/clean.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/html
copying src/lxml/html/usedoctest.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/html
copying src/lxml/html/html5parser.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/html
copying src/lxml/html/ElementSoup.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/html
copying src/lxml/html/_setmixin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/html
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/isoschematron
copying src/lxml/isoschematron/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/isoschematron
copying src/lxml/lxml.etree.h -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml
copying src/lxml/lxml.etree_api.h -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml
copying src/lxml/includes/xmlerror.pxd -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/xmlparser.pxd -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/c14n.pxd -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/tree.pxd -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/dtdvalid.pxd -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/etreepublic.pxd -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/xpath.pxd -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/xmlschema.pxd -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/schematron.pxd -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/xslt.pxd -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/config.pxd -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/htmlparser.pxd -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/relaxng.pxd -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/xinclude.pxd -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/uri.pxd -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/lxml-version.h -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/etree_defs.h -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/includes
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/isoschematron/resources
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/isoschematron/resources/rng
copying src/lxml/isoschematron/resources/rng/iso-schematron.rng -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/isoschematron/resources/rng
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl
copying src/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/XSD2Schtrn.xsl -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl
copying src/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/RNG2Schtrn.xsl -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/iso-schematron-xslt1
copying src/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/iso-schematron-xslt1/iso_abstract_expand.xsl -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/iso-schematron-xslt1
copying src/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/iso-schematron-xslt1/iso_schematron_message.xsl -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/iso-schematron-xslt1
copying src/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/iso-schematron-xslt1/iso_svrl_for_xslt1.xsl -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/iso-schematron-xslt1
copying src/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/iso-schematron-xslt1/iso_dsdl_include.xsl -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/iso-schematron-xslt1
copying src/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/iso-schematron-xslt1/iso_schematron_skeleton_for_xslt1.xsl -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/iso-schematron-xslt1
copying src/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/iso-schematron-xslt1/readme.txt -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/iso-schematron-xslt1
running build_ext
building 'lxml.etree' extension
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src/lxml
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/python2.7-HVkOs2/python2.7-2.7.13=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fPIC -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/tmp/pip-build-tdJud0/lxml/src/lxml/includes -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c src/lxml/lxml.etree.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src/lxml/lxml.etree.o -w
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -shared -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/python2.7-HVkOs2/python2.7-2.7.13=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wl,-z,relro -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/python2.7-HVkOs2/python2.7-2.7.13=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src/lxml/lxml.etree.o -lxslt -lexslt -lxml2 -lz -lm -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/etree.so
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

----------------------------------------
Rolling back uninstall of lxml
Command "/usr/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-tdJud0/lxml/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-_vKEe_-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-tdJud0/lxml/

I have tried to run the code but I just get the message Error! four times when it should be displaying Done!

If anybody could help or even test it to see if it actually works that would be great.

Thanks in advance.

Im running
VirtualBox Version 5.2.0
Debian 9.2.1 amd64
Ubuntu 17.10 amd64

It looks like the requirements.txt file is specifying outdated packages that are not compatible with you version of Linux. For instance, it replaced lxml 3.7 with lxml 3.4, which may not be compatible with other packages on your system.

I would email the author of the the software, and explain the trouble you're having.

Thanks. So that means I shouldn't have to worry about the requirements as lxml is already installed. The code should work when I run it but Im just getting errors. I will have to go back to the author and see if they will respond to me.

probably you need to install libz: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...cannot-find-lz

Thanks but I tried this and didn't change the issue. Have got in touch with the author who is going to check the code.

You could read requirements.txt and see what's in it.

Inside the file is

lxml==3.4.0

The developer has got back to me and the url http://www.mapmyrun.com/vxproxy/v7.0/workout/{0}/? is not working. Either the response is empty or it returns a 404.

So will have to wait to see if the developer can come up with a solution sometime in the future