Question Traceback (most recent call last): File "app.py", line 2, in <module> import RPi.GPIO as GPIO ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'RPi' make: *

[Bob Macantosh]

Hello!

I am following this how-to: https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/turn-a-rotary-phone-into-google-assistant-with-raspberry-pi

I am currently on the second to last step. I run the "make run" command. I received the following error

Traceback (most recent call last): File "app.py", line 2, in <module> import RPi.GPIO as GPIO ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'RPi' make: *

I have tryed many things, and any help would be greatly appreciated! Have a good day!

 

[kanewolf]

Hello!

I am following this how-to: https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/turn-a-rotary-phone-into-google-assistant-with-raspberry-pi

I am currently on the second to last step. I run the "make run" command. I received the following error

Traceback (most recent call last): File "app.py", line 2, in <module> import RPi.GPIO as GPIO ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'RPi' make: *

I have tryed many things, and any help would be greatly appreciated! Have a good day!

What this looks like to me is that you don't have all the required Python libraries installed correctly. It is looking for the GPIO library and not finding it.

 

[Bob Macantosh]

Thank you so much for responding!!!!!!!!!!

Would you happen to know how to do it the right way? I have tried many different ways, following many different how tos.

 

[kanewolf]

Thank you so much for responding!!!!!!!!!!

Would you happen to know how to do it the right way? I have tried many different ways, following many different how tos.

Do you have the Python dev package installed?

 

[Bob Macantosh]

I don't know... how would I check

 

[Bob Macantosh]

UPDATE

just tryed to instal got thiss error:

E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?

 

[Bob Macantosh]

[Just to confirm i tried to install the python dev package]

 

[Bob Macantosh]

I just tried to install it a different way, and it says this:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python-dev is already the newest version (2.7.16-1).
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
python-colorzero
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Do you have the Python dev package installed?

So to ansewer your question: Yes!

 

[kanewolf]

I just tried to install it a different way, and it says this:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python-dev is already the newest version (2.7.16-1).
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
python-colorzero
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
So to ansewer your question: Yes!

This is the support page for that library -- https://pypi.org/project/RPi.GPIO/ is it installed ?

 

[Bob Macantosh]

Whenever I try to install RPi.GPIO I get messages like

0 upgraded 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded

 

[Bob Macantosh]

Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://www.piwheels.org/simple
Requirement already satisfied: RPi.GPIO in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (0.7.0)

 

[Bob Macantosh]

That is another thing I recieve when I put in "pip3 install RPi.GPIO"

 

[kanewolf]

That is another thing I recieve when I put in "pip3 install RPi.GPIO"

I don't code in Python, so I don't have any more insight.

 

[Bob Macantosh]

Ok! Thank yuo for all of your help though! If you do know anyone that does and has these forums, please oint them my way! Have a good day!

 

[kanewolf]

Ok! Thank yuo for all of your help though! If you do know anyone that does and has these forums, please oint them my way! Have a good day!

Have you tried opening the interactive Python environment and tried the basic commands in the WIKI -- https://sourceforge.net/p/raspberry-gpio-python/wiki/BasicUsage/
Try the import in the interactive environment, you might get more insight into the problem.

The "make test" step worked correctly ???

 

[Bob Macantosh]

yes make test worked correctley aswell as make install

 

[Bob Macantosh]

make test doesn't involve the gpio though, because it goes through the Micro USB > USB regular > Pluggable Audio Adapter > Handset! So I understand why that worked.

 

[Bob Macantosh]

If you have any ideas please dont forget tohelp!!!!!!!!!

 

[kanewolf]

If you have any ideas please dont forget tohelp!!!!!!!!!

Not a clue. But since this is a PI, the simple thing might be to get a clean SD card. Do a basic OS install and follow the steps in that configuration. See if that fixes it. Maybe you had something that conflicted installed.