[MAGEEC] Installing pyusb as per wiki instructions

[Jeremy Bennett]

On 20/02/14 20:45, Alex J Lennon wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm working through a clean install of the power monitoring software as
> per the Software Requirements section of the workshop Wiki page here:
> 
> http://mageec.org/wiki/Workshop#Software_setup
> 
> I ran into some trouble with my standard Ubuntu LTS VM and so tried with
> the latest Ubuntu 13.10 but it gives the same error:
> 
> ~$ sudo pip install pyusb docopt
> Downloading/unpacking pyusb
>   Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pyusb (from
> versions: 1.0.0a2, 1.0.0a2, 1.0.0a3, 1.0.0a3, 1.0.0b1)
> Cleaning up...
> 
> I found what I think is the solution with the following which seems to
> get it installed:
> 
> ~$ sudo pip install --pre pyusb docopt
> Downloading/unpacking pyusb
>   Downloading pyusb-1.0.0b1.tar.gz (44kB): 44kB downloaded
>   Running setup.py egg_info for package pyusb
> 
> Downloading/unpacking docopt
>   Downloading docopt-0.6.1.tar.gz
>   Running setup.py egg_info for package docopt

Hi Alex,

Thanks for this. Would you add a note about this on the Wiki, so anyone
else who hits the same problem can try your approach.

Best wishes,


Jeremy

> Best Regards,
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
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