Motioneye error: externally-managed-environment

Troubleshooting
1

I am running dietpi leia upgrading to bookworth on RPI3. I would like to uninstall this package but i can’t :

[FAILED] DietPi-Software | pip3 uninstall -y motioneye
[ INFO ] DietPi-Software | Executing alternative command: pip3 uninstall -y motioneye
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.
[FAILED] Alternative command execution | Exited with error
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2

what version of DietPi is this?

Can you fill in the troubleshooting template that you have ignored so far?

Required

  • DietPi version | cat /boot/dietpi/.version
  • Distro version | echo $G_DISTRO_NAME $G_RASPBIAN
  • Kernel version | uname -a
  • Architecture | dpkg --print-architecture
  • SBC model | echo $G_HW_MODEL_NAME or (EG: RPi3)
3

cat /boot/dietpi/.version
G_DIETPI_VERSION_CORE=9
G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB=11
G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC=2
G_GITBRANCH=‘master’
G_GITOWNER=‘MichaIng’

echo $G_DISTRO_NAME $G_RASPBIAN
bookworm 0

uname -a
Linux DietPi 6.1.21-v7+ #1642 SMP Mon Apr 3 17:20:52 BST 2023 armv7l GNU/Linux

dpkg --print-architecture
armhf

echo $G_HW_MODEL_NAME
RPi 3 Model B (armv7l)

4

i can’t access motioneye anymore since upgrading rpi to Bookworth. So i want to uninstall it to re-install a fresh version :

# pip3 uninstall -y motioneye 
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.

# pip3 uninstall -y motioneye --break-system-packages
WARNING: Skipping motioneye as it is not installed.
WARNING: Running pip as the 'root' user can result in broken permissions and conflicting behaviour with the system package manager. It is recommended to use a virtual environment instead: https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/venv
5

i installed a new fresh version. Simply missing default passwd !

6

There is actually no default password. If I am not mistaken, you have to create the initial user yourself during the first login.