Re: gpsd built, gps.py and ntpsec/ntploggps

[Michael Byczkowski]

Thanks, and I built it from git after purging.


> On 21. Feb 2021, at 17:53, Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 21 Feb 2021 15:57:25 +0100
> Michael Byczkowski <by@by-online.de> wrote:
> 
>> I’ve built gpsd from source on my Raspberry Pi’s Debian Buster,
>> everything went very smooth,
> 
> From which source? The rasbian gpsd package source, the git repository
> source, or something completely different?
> 
> In any case, the standard advice around here seems to be: remove with
> extreme prejudice any gpsd packages and their sources and any files
> they may have created or installed ("apt purge... "). Then bring in the
> git repo and compile that.
> 
>> Finally, Ive figured out, how to make gps.py accessible for all user
>> by creating a file /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gps.pth with the
>> contents '/usr/local/lib/python3/dist-packages’, so far so good. Now
>> ntpsec’s ntploggps still breaks with 'can't find Python GPSD
>> library’; any ideas?
> 
> I vaguely remember something about a Python path problem. Does anyone
> have a clearer memory than I do?
> 
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