I'm getting an error and I'd like some feedback if it is a missing package (apt-get) or a bug in OctoPrint or something wrong in Python.

 

It looks like something is blowing up with Python trying to install a package called scandir 1.3, but I'm not getting anything when I google it with the error.  Thoughts?

 

The documentation on Git was up to date... the documentation on Octoprint.org is wrong for building it from source.  

 

Error:

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creating 'dist/OctoPrint-1.3.0-py2.7.egg' and adding 'build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg' to it

removing 'build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg' (and everything under it)

Processing OctoPrint-1.3.0-py2.7.egg

creating /home/admin/OctoPrint/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/OctoPrint-1.3.0-py2.7.egg

Extracting OctoPrint-1.3.0-py2.7.egg to /home/admin/OctoPrint/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages

Adding OctoPrint 1.3.0 to easy-install.pth file

Installing octoprint script to /home/admin/OctoPrint/venv/bin

 

Installed /home/admin/OctoPrint/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/OctoPrint-1.3.0-py2.7.egg

Processing dependencies for OctoPrint==1.3.0

Searching for scandir>=1.3,<1.4

Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/scandir/

Best match: scandir 1.3

Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/b1/73/493f392cd7e1549361e7727f75dea1c9f3a627350973018857578c8c5598/scandir-1.3.tar.gz#md5=e7a59e446dad6a1abdbed3c236f12871

Processing scandir-1.3.tar.gz

Writing /tmp/easy_install-9cHv1O/scandir-1.3/setup.cfg

Running scandir-1.3/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-9cHv1O/scandir-1.3/egg-dist-tmp-iWmvMz

_scandir.c:14:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory

 #include <Python.h>

                    ^

compilation terminated.

error: Setup script exited with error: command 'arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc' failed with exit status 1

root@OPIZ:/home/admin/OctoPrint# apt-get install scandir

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

E: Unable to locate package scandir

root@OPIZ:/home/admin/OctoPrint#

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I fixed this....

 

 

apt-get python2.7-dev install

 

Need the python development headers installed.

It still won't run.... going to clear out venv and try again.

This wound up being a memory issue.  Python is apparently sloppy about memory management.

 

I fixed it by creating a larger swap file and enabling it.

Hi Brian. I wanna also install octoprint on my orange pi zero. But i dont know where i start ? Do you have a guide for this?