Instructions for installing python packages no longer work.

[Joshua van Tol]

The instructions at: http://www.multitech.net/developer/software/mlinux/mlinux-software-development/python/

No longer work correctly. EZ-Setup is no longer hosted at that location, but even when updating the URI there’s a number of other issues that crop up. It seems that EZ-Setup is no longer supported, and we’re supposed to use get-pip.py, but get-pip fails because it says the it cannot fetch a HTTPS URL because the SSL module isn’t available.

Could someone please update the instructions to match up with the current state of external tools?

Regards,
Josh

[Peter Ferland]

Try using this link instead of the other: https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py

[Tamas Bondar]

Josh, did you manage to sort out this Python issue?

I guess, the problem is that Python was compiled without SSL support. Any idea how to resolve this? Basically, I want python pip working.

[Jeff Hatch]

Joshua,

What version of mLinux are you running?

Jeff

[Tamas Bondar]

Version 3.3.6 has this problem, v3.2.0 was fine.

[Jeff Hatch]

There was a change in the version(s) of openssl. In the openssl.inc file under layers/meta-mlinux/recipes-connectivity/openssl there is the following:

# Remove this to enable SSLv3. SSLv3 is defaulted to disabled due to the POODLE
# vulnerability
EXTRA_OECONF = ” -no-ssl3″

Comment out the “EXTRA_OECONF = ” -no-ssl3″” line. The old Python 2.3.x doesn’t support SSL unless SSLv3 is available.

This is going to be remedied in the near future as the Yocto version of openembedded is updated.

Jeff

[Tamas Bondar]

Jeff, thanks for your response. So basically, it is not possible to fix it using the current pre-built image. That’s what I was afraid of.

As I’m not sure recompiling it from scratch would worth the hassle, I will just keep using v3.2.0 and wait for the next release, hoping this will be fixed. Any idea when it might come? Hopefully, not another year.

Thanks again!

[Jeff Hatch]

Work is still being done to move to the Yocto Morty version of openembedded. That will hopefully wrap up soon and then testing will begin. I can guarantee it won’t be a year. Also, Python will be upgraded to 2.7.11.

Jeff

[Bogdan Rusnak]

Hi Jeff. I’m having the same problem as the original poster. I’m on mLinux Version 3.3.6. I want to try modifying openssl.inc file but I can’t seem to find it anywhere. Where exactly is this file located? Also I did a find / -name “openssl.inc” command and nothing was found.

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