INSTALLING MPF on RP5 - Issues

[Jason McNally]

Hi All, 

I have not been able to get MPF installed successfully on fresh OS installs on RP4 or RP5 (my preference) or even ubuntu Using the instructions on the MPF website.

I did manage to get mpf version 0.56.2 to install, on the RP5 but no luck with the MC. See attached error logs.

pyenv , pip 25.3, python3.9.18 are installed

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you

[cobra18t]

The last time I installed on a Pi 5 was about a year ago and I struggled with the installation. I attached my command history here. This is what I noticed from the command history:

1. I was not using "sudo" the first time I tried to install mpf and had to back out and try again with sudo
2. I attempted the mpf-mc install multiple times and seemed to find a number of packages that it was not installing as dependencies so I started to install them manually. It took a few iterations before it finally worked.

Ideally someone could take this and fix the dependency installation issues of the mpf-mc install, but I am not sure how to do that. I just kept looking for things it thought were missing and installed them. It was a pain.

[Jason McNally]

Hi Thomas, Thank you for that, will take a look. I wonder how long it has been since anyone has been able to install on RP4, RP5 or Ubuntu, Anyone out there had recent success in Linux?

[Marc Rechté]

I confirm a successful mpf-mc installation on a rpi5. 

I used Raspberry Pi OS Lite "November 19th 2024 Debian version: 12 (bookworm) Kernel version: 6.6" from https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/

Also make sure python version is 3.11.

Hope this can help.