Install Plotman w/ Chia's Experimental GUI Installer

Linux Mint 20.04 I installed Chia via the “experimental GUI installer” (chia-blockchain_1.1.5_amd64.deb) and because it doesn’t quite operate the same —no requirement to . ./activate the virtual environment, etc— I’m not sure if I’m performing the Plotman install correctly (actually I’m pretty sure I’m not).

Any insight on the differences of installing Plotman if I used Chia’s “experimental GUI installer”? ( The Chia GUI does seem to be operating fine … I’m synced and generating plots like mad. )

But I’m not even sure where Chia installed to … looks like it might be in /usr/lib/chia-blockchain directory(?), but . ./activate doesnt work from there and when I try to install Plotman i get a ‘launchpadlib’ error and a “WARNING: The script plotman is installed in '/home/ijf/.local/bin' which is not on PATH.” during install. And nothing seems to work after install either … “plotman: command not found”.

I think if I could just get over this hump your instructions are very followable.

[defaultsecurity]

I’m having the same problem. I installed chia using the experimental installer. $ plotman version = plotman 0.3.1+dev

Traceback (most recent call last): File “/home/username/.local/bin/plotman”, line 8, in <module> sys.exit(main()) File “/home/username/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/plotman/plotman.py”, line 179, in main interactive.run_interactive() File “/home/username/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/plotman/interactive.py”, line 335, in run_interactive curses.wrapper(curses_main) File “/usr/lib/python3.9/curses/init.py”, line 94, in wrapper return func(stdscr, *args, **kwds) File “/home/username/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/plotman/interactive.py”, line 117, in curses_main (started, msg) = manager.maybe_start_new_plot( File “/home/username/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/plotman/manager.py”, line 169, in maybe_start_new_plot p = subprocess.Popen(plot_args, File “/usr/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py”, line 951, in init self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds, File “/usr/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py”, line 1821, in _execute_child raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename) FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘chia’

[altendky]

FWIW, installing the development version of plotman involves following the regular installation instructions and using @development rather than @main. But sure, I might get a release out tonight, maybe.