Ubuntu Linux 20.10 working

[KlfJoat]

Edit: These instructions are not necessary in Ubuntu 21.04. Just run ./start_ofd.py!

FYI, I've got this working in Linux under Ubuntu 20.10. Here's my setup, in case others might find it helpful.

Disclaimers:
I am no programmer, I'm a sysadmin. And I provide no warranties or support for this setup. This is what worked for me, it might not work for you. But hopefully, it will point you in the right directions.

The main problem is that the default Ubuntu 20.10 python is v2.7.18 and python3 is 3.8.6 (not 3.9, as this script requires). So the solution involves installing python3.9 and then using a venv whenever updating and running this code.

I am personally running each of these as a script, but here are the core parts.

Setup

These are one-time setup steps. You should only need to do this on new Linux installs.

1. Install Python 3.9

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt update && sudo apt install python3.9 python3.9-venv python3.9-dev

2. Create the venv in the repo root
   We'll call it venv.
   Ensure that you are in the root directory of this repository!

cd ~/src/OnlyFans
python3.9 -m venv venv

Updates

Every time we pull the repo, we need to make sure we activate the venv and grab any updates in the possibly updated requirements.txt file.

cd ~/src/OnlyFans
git pull
source venv/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Run

Every time we run, we need to activate the venv before starting the script.
(technically, the source command only needs to be done once per session, but it hurts nothing to do it repeatedly)

cd ~/src/OnlyFans
source venv/bin/activate
python start_ofd.py

Resources

I used the following links to help me.

• http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2020/10/python-3-9-0-released-install-ppa-ubuntu/
• https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/venv.html

[UltimaHoarder]

Thanks for the well-written tutorial 👍

I'll link this in the readme soon.

[KlfJoat]

Changelog

• Changed the venv name to "venv" (was of-env). This aligns with an item in .gitignore, meaning that a user's git repo will still seem clean after creating the venv.

[jmeister234]

thanks. I had trouble setting it up because I'd have 3 different versions of python in Ubuntu 20.xx and nothing seemed to work.
=> this fixed it

[mikebradley]

Just to share that now with Python 3.9.4 as default in Ubuntu 21.04, there's no need to do a virtual environment and the process is straightforward. Running a test, I checked that the only thing that's missing is 'pip' but you only need to install it:

sudo apt install python3-pip

[KlfJoat]

Agreed. I could see that Pyhon 3.9 was on the roadmap for Hirsute Hippo. That's why I was very explicit in naming these instructions as being for Groovy Gorilla.

My experience matches yours. Removing the venv and installing pip3 were all I needed to do.