Re: [IBMiOSS] Python, ACS, Open Source and MKDocs

Yes, I'm struggling with a number of issues, Jon, that are clearly OAATTWOI (obvious and apparent to the weakest of intellect).  The things that I believe I've been told but that I don't understand are as follows:

1. yum vs pip - evidently I should use yum unless it doesn't work, then I use pip
2. /QOpenSys/pkgs/bin vs QOpenSys/QIBM - The first is open source, the second is not, and I should only use the first
3. python venv - I can make one, but I don't need it for MKDocs

So, getting through all of that, I then tried to run the server for MKDocs, and I got another error, which I'll put in a separate folder.




On 12/18/2020 12:45 PM, Jon Paris wrote:

"There really is a bit of a bootstrap, both technically and philosophically, to embrace Open Source."

Amen to that Joe - once you get past the Unixese and the assumption that many make that "well it should all be obvious" then it gets easier. But like you I have beaten my head against many brick walls with this stuff. Some stuff "just works" and then there are the rest ...

On Dec 18, 2020, at 1:41 PM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 12/18/2020 11:53 AM, Kevin Adler wrote:

I'm not sure why you though I was referring to Python 2.

Because I'm not very bright?

The email of
yours I responded to specifically mentioned Python 3.4. The problem was
that your PATH did not have /QOpenSys/pkgs/bin on it, so you found the OPS
Python 3.4 instead, which places a symlink in /QOpenSys/usr/bin so it's on
the default PATH. All software installed by ACS is under
/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin, so you must either fully qualify them or adjust your
PATH to find them.

Yes it did, but I was drinking from the firehose at that particular moment. I've since addressed all of those things and actually got to where I need to be. I think. There really is a bit of a bootstrap, both technically and philosophically, to embrace Open Source.

I'll get there.


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