Install developing version

Warning

Be aware that the code on the master branch may be unstable.

If you want to use an unofficial version of the pibooth application, you need to work from a clone of this git repository. Replace the step 8. of the Install procedure by the following actions:

  1. Clone from github :

git clone https://github.com/pibooth/pibooth.git

  1. Go in the cloned directory :

cd pibooth

  1. Create a virtual environment and install pibooth in editable mode in it:

python3 -m venv --system-site-packages .venv
.venv/bin/pip install -e .[dslr,printer]

Note

Installing with sudo pip3 install -e . no longer works: since Bookworm the system Python is externally managed (PEP 668) and pip refuses to write into it. --system-site-packages keeps the libraries installed with apt — python3-opencv, python3-picamera2, the GPIO ones — visible from the virtual environment.

  1. Start the application with .venv/bin/pibooth, exactly in the same way as installed from pypi. All modifications performed in the cloned repository are taken into account when the application starts.