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

Joe,
Yum is a general package installer for AIX and PASE and other platforms like Linux ... it works with RedHat Package Manager .rpm packages ... (IBM bought RedHat, so it "makes sense" they would go with that tooling.) Yum can install "anything" that runs in Unix/Linux systems (open systems), as long as you have yum itself already installed. ;-)

Pip is an installer specifically for stuff that is written in Python.
Hope that helps somewhat...?
All the best,
Mark S. Waterbury

On Friday, December 18, 2020, 2:05:13 PM EST, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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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