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Troubleshooting

Installation troubleshooting

  • Fatal error from pip prevented installation.
  • ERROR: No matching distribution found for bbot
  • bash: /home/user/.local/bin/bbot: /home/user/.local/pipx/venvs/bbot/bin/python: bad interpreter

If you get errors resembling any of the above, it's probably because your Python version is too old. To install a newer version (3.9+ is required), you will need to do something like this: 

# install a newer version of python
sudo apt install python3.9 python3.9-venv
# install pipx
python3.9 -m pip install --user pipx
# add pipx to your path
python3.9 -m pipx ensurepath
# reboot
reboot
# install bbot
python3.9 -m pipx install bbot
# run bbot
bbot --help

ModuleNotFoundError

If you run into a ModuleNotFoundError, try running your bbot command again with --force-deps. This will repair your modules' Python dependencies.

Regenerate Config

As a troubleshooting step it is sometimes useful to clear out your older configs and let BBOT generate new ones. This will ensure that new defaults are property restored, etc. 

# make a backup of the old configs
mv ~/.config/bbot ~/.config/bbot.bak

# generate new configs
bbot