#82 python not found

Running PopOS 20.04. Tried:

1. git clone https://notabug.org/retroboot/retroboot; cd retroboot
2. sudo make install-dependencies-ubuntu
3. make

Eventually errored out on:

make[4]: Entering directory '/home/scott/retroboot/coreboot/x230_4mb/payloads/external/tianocore/tianocore/BaseTools/Tests' /bin/sh: 1: python: not found

ran sudo ln -s $(which python2) /usr/bin/python and that fix it just thought you might like to know

yeah mate install the dependencies

Maybe there's an error with the script.

Oh, yeah I think maybe you should make sure what python version you have.

It should be python3. /usr/bin/python should be python3, and there should also be /usr/bin/python3 just in case

I have both python2 and python3 installed, but neither was aliased to plain 'python' so I had to add that as symbolic link. At first I tried linking to python3 but that resulted in more build errors, so then I tried linking to python2 and that worked. In any case, I imagine some folks that might like to build retroboot will find their distro doesn't have an alias for python and the retroboot build breaks. Now that I think about it, this is probably an upstream bug in tianocore, as they assume python is the name for python2, rather than python2.

I have updated the build instructions to mention this. I've written instructions for how to make sure you have python2. See:

https://retroboot.org/docs/git/#python

I thought it was python3 because the meclean script uses python3, but I neglected to think that other parts of the build system uses python2. which is really strange, because on my system python --version reports 3.x.x and yet I can build tianocore.

This should be fixed upstream in Tianocore. Nowadays, most people have python2 and python3 in PATH, without a python executable or symlink.