Fedora 33 - still problems with /usr/libexec/platform-python

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Hello,

tried to install rocm-dev (for rocm 4.0.0) on Fedora 33,
Error seems to be related to missing python2? Thought this bug has already been reported for older fedora versions, but still exists - also for newest rocm-dev (which is in CENTOS8 repository)
Probably CENTOS 8 is still with python2?

However, I did not find a proper bug fix by now. Can somebody provide a hint?
Thanks

Problem: package rocm-dev-4.0.0.40000-23.el8.x86_64 requires rocm-smi-lib64, but none of the providers can be installed

  • conflicting requests
  • nothing provides /usr/libexec/platform-python needed by rocm-smi-lib64-2.9.0.9_rocm_rel_4.0_23_4b49d2d-1.x86_64
    (try to add ‘–skip-broken’ to skip uninstallable packages)
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Since Python 2 is no longer supported, Python 2 has also been deprecated in Fedora since Fedora 30:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Mass_Python_2_Package_Removal

You can still install the interpreter if you need it:

sudo dnf install python2.7

The package you are trying to install was not built for Fedora. It was built for el7/CentOS. Packages built for Fedora do sometimes work on EL/CentOS and vice versa but not always. In this case, it is looking for the /usr/libexec/platform-python file which is not provided by any package in Fedora. It probably is in EL/CentOS.

It’ll be best to request your provider to generate a package for Fedora. That’ll be the simplest solution.

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Thanks,

so probably it will be best to build rocm4 from the source.

I will give it a try.

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Yeh, or if they’ve published the spec for their rpm, you could perhaps tweak it to rebuild it work on Fedora. The first thing to do would be to remove the requirement on this /usr/libexec/platform-python file.

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