You know, immutable enterprise systems.
I installed HeliumOS (Almalinux bootc) on a corebooted Chromebook. Works really well, but audio needs to be configured.
The script needs a recent python which is not available there.
Go and rust can be installed for a user only. Is there something similar for python?
Doesn’t pyenv solve?
Plus one for pyenv
Perhaps overkill for your use case, but uv is pretty great. I suppose you could just use it to install a local python and then add it to your path.
This was going to be my recommendation as well.
You can install the new version of python but leave the system default python as is. You can launch a specific version of python by adding the version number
So python3.12 vs just python3
Compile it, install it to your ~/bin.
~/.local/bin;)But yes, great idea.
I found a script online that installed the tar archive. For some reason that version of python still wasnt used, and invoking it with
python3.12.6or something didnt do anything
Can you use pyenv for the script?
Have you considered using pipx + poetry?
Can you put it in the ~/bin or something and modify the $path to go there first?
~/.local/binyou mean?;)
Yes I tried that, and got like 6 different solutions to do this so I will see :)
Yes . Local/bin, good looking out.
Does your which program name report the right one?
Not yet fixed, no motivation
I currently use this workaround ;)
Tbh I would probably never fix it if that worked. What’s a little dongle between friends.
Audio configuration sounds like a shell task. Why does it need Python? Is this script in any way an official part of the OS?
No not a part of the OS and als no idea why they used python, that script is full of crazy functions so may be needed.
I translated the python 3.12 to 3.9 using ChatGPT lol, as even after installing up-to-date python and placing it in my home $PATH the script threw errors.
I think it worked, but there is an issue with my atomic system, so I likely need to build an RPM for the changes or use a different command for akmods or package the kernel myself or whatever.
🤣 damn I would’ve been looking for a new image to flash at that point.
I’m glad chatGPT didn’t brick your system.
Where’d you get the audio setup script?
I am on a Chromebook and that is a recommended script. There are really just a few functions in python 3.11 that are missing in 3.9
This script? https://github.com/WeirdTreeThing/chromebook-linux-audio
I’m not familiar with bootc based systems but it looks like you could hack up the container spec here: https://codeberg.org/HeliumOS/bootc to build heliumOS with those changes. You would then use something like
bootc switch ...to use it.(Add a line in the docker file to install newer python and run the audio script. I’m not sure if the script requires changes for this.)
I could be way off base with this idea, I’m not sure how heliumOS expects users to install packages.
You may also be able to run the latest python docker image to run the script, but the way this script modifies system files shouldn’t work on an immutable system.
Haha thanks for the idea!
That actually makes a lot of sense. The image building simply should be really easy if you can just pull the already made image and just add the file.
There is an example to install newer python, do something and uninstall it again (which I wouldnt do).
Thanks, I will try to do that. I think HeliumOS has a future as a ChromeOS alternative
Ah, I see. Well I’m glad it worked!
