Help Getting Python to work for VSCodium

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Team,

I am very new to Manjaro as an OS, and have been trying to run a simple python script from VSCodium and it seems to immediately crash when importing the module numpy. From the built in Add/Remove Software Center, I have kept all the modules updated and is currently up to date with Python 3.12.5, but whenever VSCode/VSCodium tries to run it tries to pull Python 3.11.9.

Which I didnt even know I had. Looking through it all it contains is the manjaro-sdk python packages in the folder site-packages, as in just those folders. I am nervous about deleting it since the Arch directory doesnt have 3.12 listed and the Python 3.12.5 I have in my usr/lib folder doesnt contain manjaro-sdk.

Also note that VSCodum/VSCode doesnt recognize my usr/lib folder and I can run the scripts via cli without issue. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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Welcome to the Manjaro forum. Just a couple of questions for you.

  1. How did you install VSCodium? AUR, flatpak, other?
  2. What options does VSCodium offer if you open the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+p) and enter Python: Select interpreter
  3. What is the full path of the “Arch directory” that you referred to? I am not clear which directory you mean.

The package python-manjaro-sdk was removed from the Manjaro repository in October 2023, and should probably be uninstalled from your system as well.

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Then you need to change the python used for the virtual environment or add the non-system python in the virtual environment.

Do Not Mess With Or Change System Python

The package manjaro-sdk no longer exist.

You need to remove that package as it has been removed from the repos as obsolete.

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Hello Takakage,

  1. I installed it via AUR, and before reading this I just installed pyenv and tried pulled in both Python 3.11.9 and Python 3.112.5. Neither weirdly works for numpy, but I assume that this is due to not knowing how to pull in python libraries into Pyenv.

  2. |Python Version | B|
    |— | —|
    |Python 3.12.5 64-bit (‘3.12.5’: pyenv) ~/.pyenv/versions/3.12.5/bin/python | Recpmmended|
    |Python 3.11.9 64-bit (‘3.11.9’: pyenv) ~/.pyenv/versions/3.11.9/bin/python | Pyenv|
    |Python 3.11.9 64-bit /bin/python3 | Global|
    |Python 3.11.9 64-bit /bin/python3 | |
    |Python 3.11.9 64-bit /sbin/python3 | |
    |Python 3.11.9 64-bit /usr/sbin/python3 | |
    |Python 3.11.9 64-bit /bin/python | |

  3. Weirdly I have two separate Python directories here which is what I was trying to convey, but failed haha [ /root/usr/lib/python3.11] and [ /root/usr/lib/python3.12]

Note for the python paths this is how my computer came with Python and that the path [ /root/usr/lib/python3.11] contains only one folder, and its site packages with two separate packages Manjaro and manjaro_sdk-0.1.1.dist-info

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Hello linux-aarhus,
So with this being the case where I have two separate Python directories [ /root/usr/lib/python3.11] and [ /root/usr/lib/python3.12] and for the python paths this is how my computer came with Python and that the path [ /root/usr/lib/python3.11] contains only one folder, and its site packages with two separate packages Manjaro and manjaro_sdk-0.1.1.dist-info.

Can I just delete the [ /root/usr/lib/python3.11 ] path? I just got into manjaro, and don’t want to brick anything this early on hahaha

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Team,
Also figured out the install setup for pyenv, and pulled in my libraries, but still want to know what to do with the ealier version of python on my computer

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There is no earlier version of python on your system.

What you see with the manjaro-sdk package is a leftover from when the system was updated.

Uninstall the package

sudo pacman -Rns manjaro-sdk

There is rarely any reason to use older versions of python - python is an interpreted script language and using the latest major version will always work.

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Thank you very much, but using pacman to remove the package, I get

error: target not found: manjaro-sdk

which makes me feel like I just need to delete the directory? My only worry is that somehow its referenced in VSCodium, is there any issue with just straight up deleting the directory?

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I strongly recommend not geting into the habit of deleting system directories.

Also, can you show us the output from

ls -lh /usr/bin/python*
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Just how new?

I mean - which ISO did you use to install Manjaro - sounds like an old ISO.

I had to locate the old package to figure out the name and the package is named python-manjaro-sdk and the package was archived 11 months ago and most likely deprecated a while before that.

sudo pacman -Rns python-manjaro-sdk