[arm-allstar] Speedtest Installation Error

[Doug Crompton]

The reason I did not pursue this is because the next release will have it
installed. So no need for users to go to any trouble.

Doug


On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 3:09 PM "Tony Ross via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> On 05/02/2019 09:36 AM, "Steve Agee via ARM-allstar" wrote:
> > I tried to install the Python package for speedtest-cli and received
> > the following errors. Can anyone please comment on what am I doing
> > wrong here?
>
> You're not doing anything wrong; the package conflict exists in
> python-setuptools:
> [root at allstar]# pacman -S python-setuptools
> resolving dependencies...
> looking for conflicting packages...
>
> Packages (4) python-packaging-16.5-1?? python-pyparsing-2.1.0-1
> python-six-1.10.0-1?? python-setuptools-1:20.3.1-1
>
> Total Installed Size:?? 2.01 MiB
>
> :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
> (4/4) checking keys in keyring
> [########################################################] 100%
> (4/4) checking package integrity
> [########################################################] 100%
> (4/4) loading package files
> [########################################################] 100%
> (4/4) checking for file conflicts
> [########################################################] 100%
> error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
> python-setuptools: /usr/bin/easy_install exists in filesystem
> ...
>
> I solved the problem with :
>
> [root at allstar]# mv /usr/bin/easy_install /usr/bin/easy_install.OK
> '/usr/bin/easy_install' -> '/usr/bin/easy_install.OK'
>
> "pacman -S speedtest-cli" then installs correctly with a new version of
> /usr/bin/easy_install and speedtest works as expected.
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