Re: [IBMiOSS] ibm-db and itoolkit into venv

Hi John,

Thanks for your reply.

I installed 3.6.6 via the Open Souce Package Management option from IBMi
ACS.
Forgive my ignorance but I don't know if this uses yum under the covers or
if there is another way to use yum to do the install directly.

I can see a python3 update (on the Open Source Package Management Screen)
to version 3.6.8-1.
So I could for sure run that update.

But I assume this will just update the version in /QOpenSys/pkgs/bin

I could then re-create my venv and it would be at the 3.6.8-1 version of
python but the venv wouldn't not contain ibm-db and itoolkit.

To install packages into my venv I'd normally activate the venv then pip
install the required packages.
But I thought from Justin's response to an earlier email that that process
would not work for ibm-db and itoolkit.

If I can't pip-install them into the venv I'm not sure how to get them into
the venv?

thanks,
Craig

On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 at 15:47, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 10:26 AM Craig Richards <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I'm running python 3.6.6 (on the IBMi) and have just set up a venv

version

which seems to be working fine.

The fact that you are running 3.6 rather than 3.4 suggests you have
installed Python 3 via yum. This is a Good Thing.

ibm-db
itoolkit

If these cannot be pip installed - are there any instructions anyone

could

point me to that are complete and exact enough for a newbie to follow?

These should also be installed via yum. Since you presumably installed
Python 3 via yum, you should be able to do these as well. If you don't
know the exact name to type, do 'yum list' to get a complete listing.

Incidentally, the folks at IBM are releasing new RPMs fairly
frequently. We are at Python 3.6.8 now. If you have the time, 'yum
upgrade' will go through everything you've installed via yum and
update to the latest available. I'm not completely sure about the
difference between 'update' and 'upgrade', but it seems you use the
former for individual packages and the latter for your whole system.
Use 'yum --help' and/or Google for more information on how to use yum.

John Y.
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