Installer failing due to removed python2 package

Issues & Assistance
1

Hello,

I tried installing the latest beta and get the following when trying to install openbox:

The package manager could not make changes to the installed system. The command 

pacman
returned error code 1

Looking at the log I noticed there are dependencies for python2 which was removed a few days ago from the arch repos. I see this:

Enter a number (default=1): warning: cannot resolve “python2”, a dependency of “obkey”
warning: cannot resolve “python2”, a dependency of “python2-cairo”
warning: cannot resolve “python2-cairo”, a dependency of “pygtk”
warning: cannot resolve “python2”, a dependency of “python2-gobject2”
warning: cannot resolve “python2-gobject2”, a dependency of “pygtk”
warning: cannot resolve “pygtk”, a dependency of “obkey”

Are there plans to change this to python3?

2

We should temporarily add python2 related packages to our repository until we get rid of dependencies. Let me convey that to our repository management person @Rippanda12

3

@gnussbaum67 Until we implement a temporary fix, could you reboot, enter the ISO again, run the installer, and this time in the Advanced page under Openbox, can you deselect every instance of obkey and try again?

4

Hi @shivanandvp unchecking obkey worked. I was able to successfully install reborn/openbox.

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5

Good to know. We added python2 to our repositories for now and we are looking for alternatives to obkey. Thanks for reporting the problem :blush: