Docker/Portainer install fails

[binkleyz2]

• Y] I have searched the existing open and closed issues

Details:

• Date | Wed Dec 27 09:59:59 EST 2023
• Bug report | d974e242-9339-477c-9c94-fb614a3fa65d
• DietPi version | v8.25.1 (MichaIng/master)
• Image creator |
• Pre-image |
• Hardware | Native PC (x86_64) (ID=21)
• Kernel version | Linux 617NUC 6.1.0-16-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.67-1 (2023-12-12) x86_64 GNU/Linux
• Distro | bookworm (ID=7)
• Command | pip3 uninstall -y docker-compose
• Exit code | 1
• Software title | DietPi-Software

Steps to reproduce:

1. … Adding Docker and Portainer via Dietpi-software
2. …

Expected behaviour:

• … Docker should install

Actual behaviour:

• … Install fails

Extra details:

• …

Additional logs:

error: externally-managed-environment

× This environment is externally managed
╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try apt install
    python3-xyz, where xyz is the package you are trying to
    install.

    If you wish to install a non-Debian-packaged Python package,
    create a virtual environment using python3 -m venv path/to/venv.
    Then use path/to/venv/bin/python and path/to/venv/bin/pip. Make
    sure you have python3-full installed.

    If you wish to install a non-Debian packaged Python application,
    it may be easiest to use pipx install xyz, which will manage a
    virtual environment for you. Make sure you have pipx installed.

    See /usr/share/doc/python3.11/README.venv for more information.

note: If you believe this is a mistake, please contact your Python installation or OS distribution provider. You can override this, at the risk of breaking your Python installation or OS, by passing --break-system-packages.
hint: See PEP 668 for the detailed specification.

[Joulinar]

Why opening very same question on GitHub as well? It’s not going to speed up things. Just causing us double efforts to manage both.

[binkleyz2]

I created it in both places since that was what the instructions in the console seemed to indicate was the correct way to proceed.

[MichaIng]

Issue solved. We either need to skip uninstalling the (old) Python module on Bookworm if Python was not installed via dietpi-software, of pass the --break-system-packages flag with the particular pip3 call.