installing Mu

[210338jim]

Trying to install Mu on rpi - advised to go to Preferences then Recommended Software but there is no Recommended Software under Preferences

[B.Goode]

What Operating System is running on your RPi?

If it is the Raspberry Pi Foundation recommended and supported Raspbian Operating System, what named or dated version?

[gkaiseril]

See Pi blog MU, A NEW PYTHON IDE FOR BEGINNERS for the announcement and the link to the guide Getting started with Mu. It looks like you only need to apply the current dist-update to Raspian. Then it will be listed in the Recommended Software menu item.

[DirkS]

See Pi blog MU, A NEW PYTHON IDE FOR BEGINNERS for the announcement and the link to the guide Getting started with Mu. It looks like you only need to apply the current dist-update to Raspian. Then it will be listed in the Recommended Software menu item.

Both 'recommended software' and 'mu' are only available for Raspbian Stretch.

It needs more than just an update if you're running Jessie (or older)

[fbe]

... and if you installed Raspbian Stretch from an image before 2018-06-27, you may need to install the rp-prefapps package to get the Recommended Software menu item under Preferences.

[gkaiseril]

Installing Mu on Linux for the command line. To add it to the menu, you can use the menu editor.

[mxwll1011]

I did not get the "recommended software" drop-down menu after update/upgrade...

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

SO, I tried to install mu editor via the command line terminal...

pip3 install mu_editor


THIS is the result...


pip3 install mu_editor
Downloading/unpacking mu-editor
Downloading mu_editor-1.0.1-py3-none-any.whl (1.9MB): 1.9MB downloaded
Downloading/unpacking pyserial==3.4 (from mu-editor)
Downloading pyserial-3.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (193kB): 193kB downloaded
Downloading/unpacking qscintilla==2.10.7 (from mu-editor)
Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement qscintilla==2.10.7 (from mu-editor)
Cleaning up...
No distributions at all found for qscintilla==2.10.7 (from mu-editor)
Storing debug log for failure in /home/pi/.pip/pip.log


SO, the step-by-step instructions at https://codewith.mu/en/howto/install_raspberry_pi ... didn't work. Any thoughts?

[hippy]

SO, the step-by-step instructions at https://codewith.mu/en/howto/install_raspberry_pi ... didn't work. Any thoughts?

That guide says -

You can also install Mu from the command line using the command:

sudo apt-get install mu-editor

You didn't do that. You used pip3.

[mxwll1011]

"E: Unable to locate package mu-editor"

[DirkS]

"E: Unable to locate package mu-editor"

You're very conservative with giving information.
You should tell us the exact command you used and the full error msg.

And I don't think you have told us which OS + version you're using...
Important to know in this case.

[pluckerpete]

I also previously tried all advice on forums about getting recommended software menu item working but this proved beyond me so I went for cmd installtion option.
I have the same error message after following all the previous steps on this thread.
I had typed in sudo apt-get install mu-editor

The error is unable to locate package mu-editor.

My Pi has just been updated and its details are:
a01041 2B 1.1 1GB Sony UK

Thanks.

[hippy]

Works for me, Pi 3B (non-plus), Raspberry Pi OS Desktop ...

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pi@Pi3B:~ $ sudo apt-get install mu-editor
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  firmware-microbit-micropython fonts-inconsolata fonts-lyx libjs-jquery-ui
  ... snip ...
  python3-zmq
Suggested packages:
  firmware-microbit-micropython-doc libjs-jquery-ui-docs libqscintilla2-doc
  ... snip ...
  python3-twisted firmware-microbit-micropython-dl python3-uflash-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  firmware-microbit-micropython fonts-inconsolata fonts-lyx libjs-jquery-ui
  ... snip ...
  python3-zmq
0 upgraded, 50 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 18.8 MB/19.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 71.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 

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pi@Pi3B:~ $ apt search mu-editor
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
mu-editor/stable 1.0.2+dfsg-3 all
  simple editor for beginner Python programmers

mu-editor-doc/stable 1.0.2+dfsg-3 all
  simple editor for beginner Python programmers (documentation)

[B.Goode]

I also previously tried all advice on forums about getting recommended software menu item working but this proved beyond me so I went for cmd installtion option.
I have the same error message after following all the previous steps on this thread.
I had typed in sudo apt-get install mu-editor

The error is unable to locate package mu-editor.

My Pi has just been updated and its details are:
a01041 2B 1.1 1GB Sony UK

Thanks.

What Operating System are you running on your RPi2B board? Because the mu editor is pre-installed by default with the Full variant of the current RasPiOS Buster Operating System.


Edit: interesting to note that the same request for information about the Operating System was the first reply offered when the topic was first posted nearly 2 years ago...