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Trouble installing PyATS + Genie on Ubuntu

anthonykahwati
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Hi

I have installed PyATS on an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS VM... see below

kaj0103@ubuntu:~/NPA$ pyats version
You are currently running pyATS version: 19.0
Python: 3.5.2 [64bit]

Package Version
-------------------- -------
pyats 19.0
pyats.aereport 19.0
pyats.aetest 19.0.1
pyats.async 19.0
pyats.connections 19.0
pyats.datastructures 19.0
pyats.easypy 19.0.1
pyats.examples 19.0
pyats.kleenex 19.0.1
pyats.log 19.0.1
pyats.results 19.0
pyats.tcl 19.0
pyats.templates 19.0
pyats.topology 19.0
pyats.utils 19.0.1

 

I then installed genie using the following command, "pip install genie --user"

 

and every time I enter the genie command, regardless of what I try to do I get this output:

kaj0103@ubuntu:~/NPA$ genie
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "src/genie/utils/profile.py", line 45, in genie.utils.profile
profile.py and cProfile.py modules.
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 388, in _check_name_wrapper
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 809, in load_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 668, in load_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 268, in _load_module_shim
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 693, in _load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 673, in _load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 661, in exec_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 766, in get_code
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 818, in get_data
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/genie_yamls/__init__.py'

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/kaj0103/.local/bin/genie", line 6, in <module>
from genie.cli.__main__ import main
File "src/genie/cli/__main__.py", line 9, in init genie.cli.__main__
File "src/genie/cli/commands/diff.py", line 20, in init genie.cli.commands.diff
File "/home/kaj0103/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/genie/harness/__init__.py", line 34, in <module>
from .main import main
File "src/genie/harness/main.py", line 18, in init genie.harness.main
File "src/genie/harness/discovery.py", line 23, in init genie.harness.discovery
File "/home/kaj0103/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/genie/harness/commons.py", line 4, in <module>
from . import _commons_internal
File "src/genie/harness/_commons_internal.py", line 36, in init genie.harness._commons_internal
File "src/genie/utils/profile.py", line 47, in init genie.utils.profile
"""
ImportError: Cannot import genie_yamls module.

 

Can anyone offer some help or guidance on this please? I feel as though I have not done anything out of the ordinary to do this installation, but, on the other hand I am no unix admin so am not really equipped to troubleshoot it that well. Any guidance or advice would be appreciated. P.s. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling genie, same outcome.

Many thanks

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anthonykahwati
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To update, I've since updated to Ubuntu 18.04. pip was not installed so I have installed that, pyats was not installed so I have installed that..... genie was not installed so I have installed that... the error is STILL present in the same manner.

currently, Genie requires python virtual environment. could you please check if you install pyats/genie in python virtual environment?

 

mkdir pyats
cd pyats
python3 -m venv .
source bin/activate
pip install pyats genie

 

tsiemers1
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Looks like it didn't create the init file for the genie_yaml.

 

Try the following and see if the cli genie command works.

 

sudo mkdir /usr/genie_yamls/ && touch /usr/genie_yamls/__init__.py 

Then from cli:

genie -h

Aloha,

I had the same problem.

 

We have a shared Link server, where multiple users are using Ansible and want to use the same environment (playbooks)

OS is CentOS 7

We like to use Genie and the Ansible Genie module for all users

 

Installation of Genie was done with the command:

sudo /usr/local/bin/pip install genie

And Genie is installed to /usr/local/bin

not /usr/bin

 

 

which genie
/usr/local/bin/genie

 

So the  genie_yamls directory is installed under /usr/local/:

ll /usr/local/genie_yamls/
total 160K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  990 May 28 15:28 __init__.py
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   75 May 28 15:28 ios/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   79 May 28 15:28 iosxe/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   73 May 28 15:28 iosxr/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   79 May 28 15:28 junos/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   77 May 28 15:28 nxos/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.4K May 28 15:28 pts_datafile.yaml
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   36 May 28 15:28 __pycache__/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.3K May 28 15:28 subsection_datafile.yaml
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root   35 May 28 15:28 tools/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  64K May 28 15:28 trigger_datafile.yaml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  77K May 28 15:28 verification_datafile.yaml

But Genie is expecting it at:

genie -v
..
..
No such file or directory: '/usr/genie_yamls/__init__.py'

Im not a Linux expert, but I read, that local installations never should be in systems folders like

/usr/bin

 

But more important,

how to get it working, so that all users can use Genie?

 

Thanks

Marcel

currently, Genie requires python virtual environment. could you please check if you install pyats/genie in python virtual environment?

 

mkdir pyats
cd pyats
python3 -m venv .
source bin/activate
pip install pyats genie

Aloha.
Many thanks for the hint!
But is it possible to use PyATS I’m the in a multiuser environment?
We have a server, with a shared ansible environment and want to use one PyATS and Genie installation for all users
Thanks
Marcel
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