I did that including the git checkout alpha. I just did that again and it told me I was on alpha
~/photostructure-for-servers % git checkout alpha – INSERT –
Already on ‘alpha’
Your branch is up to date with ‘origin/alpha’. ~/photostructure-for-servers % ./start.sh – INSERT –
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 1, in
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘distutils’
The Python version that Brew has installed is 3.12.3 if that makes any difference.
Since I can’t seem to get Docker to run without the DB issues I mentioned in the other thread I’m back to playing with Node. Any thoughts on getting around the 3.12.3 distutils issue? As indicated above, it tells me I’m on the Alpha build so that doesn’t seem to be the issue.
Just purged and tried to reinstall node for MACOS again from scratch. Came up with the same distutils error even though I did the git checkout alpha as shown below. Really pulling my hair out here.
~/photostructure-for-servers % git checkout alpha branch ‘alpha’ set up to track ‘origin/alpha’.
Switched to a new branch ‘alpha’ ~/photostructure-for-servers % ./start.sh – Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 1, in
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘distutils’
error: externally-managed-environment
× This environment is externally managed
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“python3 -m pip install setuptools” failed.
Please refer to PhotoStructure | PhotoStructure for Node .
You can also visit https://forum.photostructure.com for help.
Thanks, I’ll give that a try. I’ve never delved into the world of Python, sticking with AppleScript, JavaScript and a bunch of now dead legacy languages LOL.
That definitely solved the DISTUTILS issue I was having thanks!
Now I’ve got a health check flag:
“Could not check for minimum disk free: no volume found for library path.”
I’m running a folder directly out of my Home directory: /Users/myuser/photostructuredb
Worked fine under Docker but Node doesn’t seem to like it. I set up an empty folder, and it set up the .photostructure directory just fine, so not sure what it doesn’t like. Thoughts?
~/photostructure-for-servers % ./start.sh – INSERT –