New installation missing module urwid

[jeagh]

I'm missing something that's probably very basic.

I used the follow command to download pycon:
git clone https://github.com/mfncooper/paracon

This resulted in parcon.py being found in the /pycon/pycon directory. There isn't a pycon.pyz file.

python3 paracon.py returns a missing module urwid error. urwid.py is in the same directory.
Ubuntu has python3-urwid installed by default.

If I need to use pip to install urwid then I'll need to set up a virtual environment. If that's the case I'm not sure that dire wolf will be detected because it's installed system wide.

[mfncooper]

If you just want to run Paracon, then you should simply download the .pyz file from the Releases area, as described in the installation instructions in the README. Since Paracon is built as a .pyz file, which is self-contained, you do not need to create a virtual environment, and you do not need to download or install any dependencies.

If you're trying to build Paracon from source code, then you'll need to run the build_zipapp.sh shell script to do that. The script will download the dependencies, including urwid. But you shouldn't need the source code unless you're trying to debug something or modify the code.

[jeagh]

Thank you, I knew the answer would be obvious to anyone else.