SQLite and make not installed on Windows 7

[iglpdc]

I'm in a workshop with a machine that has Windows 7 Home Edition Service Pack 1 32-bit machine. The installer installs nano and the rest of tools but neither SQLite nor make.

[iglpdc]

Maybe related to #34

[ethanwhite]

Can you report the output of ls ~/.swc and cat .bash_profile?

[iglpdc]

We get this error after running the installer. There is no ./swc or .bash_profile in the home dir.

[iglpdc]

Ok, so the story is not exactly as I told it. The installer didn't finish running (giving the error above) and nothing was installed (so no ~/.swc or .bash_profile were created.

We fix it by creating these files by hand, downloading the binaries from the website in the installer, and adding ./swc to the path in .bash_profile.

[wking]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 09:52:42AM -0800, Ivan Gonzalez wrote:

The installer didn't finish running (giving the error above) and
nothing was installed (so no ~/.swc or .bash_profile were
created.

That sounds like “the installer crashed before accomplishing anything
at all”. My guess is that we need a 32-bit build of the Inno Setup
installer. Until then, folks hitting this on machines with Python
installed should be able to download the Python script and run it from
a terminal.

[ethanwhite]

I would think if this was a 32-bit vs. 64-bit issue we'd have run into it by now, but I could be wrong.

My looking around on this suggested it might just be an edge case with a system that has some configuration issue somewhere.

If someone can test on another 32-bit system and confirm one way or the other that would be helpful.

[MelissaJia]

I'm having the same problem also working on a 32 bit system but had no problem with 64 utilizing the same software

[embray]

Just to be sure, do we support a 32-bit version of the installer?

[MelissaJia]

Possibly but not an easy to use one like swcarpentryinstaller.exe. However, you can use sqlite via the firefox addon without installing sqlite first.

[justbennet]

The installer doesn't seem to add either nano nor make to the GitBash shell's prompt nor to the Windows system path. Files get installed into ~/.swc/[bin|lib|share] and I can set the path manually and things appear to work.

Should ~/.swc/lib/nano and ~/.swc/lib/make/bin get added to the WIndows PATH, or a .profile or .bash_profile get created in the user's home directory?

[wking]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 01:19:44PM -0700, justbennet wrote:
“Should ~/.swc/lib/nano and ~/.swc/lib/make/bin get added to the
WIndows PATH, or a .profile or .bash_profile get created in the
user's home directory?”

Yes 1. If you have ~/.swc but no changes to ~/.bash_profile, I
expect the installer crashed before completing.

[justbennet]

Yes, it does seem to crash. Running from a command window that doesn't close gives me this

C:\Program Files (x86)\swc-installer>swc-windows-installer.exe
Preparing your Software Carpentry awesomeness!
installer version 0.3
create nosetests entrypoint C:\Users\hayden.swc\bin\nosetests
existing installation at C:\Users\hayden.swc\lib\make
existing installation at C:\Users\hayden.swc\lib\make
existing installation at C:\Users\hayden.swc\lib\nano
existing installation at C:\Users\hayden.swc\share\nanorc
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "swc-windows-installer.py", line 326, in
File "swc-windows-installer.py", line 295, in main
File "swc-windows-installer.py", line 202, in install_sqlite
File "swc-windows-installer.py", line 141, in zip_install
File "swc-windows-installer.py", line 72, in download
File "urllib2.pyc", line 154, in urlopen
File "urllib2.pyc", line 431, in open
File "urllib2.pyc", line 449, in _open
File "urllib2.pyc", line 409, in _call_chain
File "urllib2.pyc", line 1240, in https_open
File "urllib2.pyc", line 1197, in do_open
urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate ve
rify failed (_ssl.c:590)>

[wking]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 01:49:09PM -0700, justbennet wrote: “ File "swc-windows-installer.py", line 202, in install_sqlite File "swc-windows-installer.py", line 141, in zip_install File "swc-windows-installer.py", line 72, in download … urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:590)> ” Is the COMODO CA used by sqlite.org not in your CA list or something?

[justbennet]

I had no issues when I manually went to the URL from the source code using Firefox on the same Windows VM.

[wking]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 02:14:47PM -0700, justbennet wrote:
“I had no issues when I manually went to the URL from the source code
using Firefox on the same Windows VM.”

I think Firefox uses its own certificate store, while Python is using
a system certificate store 1. In a Python 3.4+ shell, can you run:

$ python3
Python 3.4.3 (default, Jan 29 2016, 13:29:49)
[GCC 4.8.4] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import ssl
context = ssl.create_default_context()
context.get_ca_certs()

or similar? Or you can poke around in the CA and ROOT system stores
referenced by 1.

[carpenterbennet]

I will try that tomorrow or the next day.

[justbennet]

Yes, Comodo was not present. After a couple of consultations with Google, I found and installed the certificates to the system store. This is good to know.

How likely is this issue to crop up? With @wking's guidance, I got through it, but I would probably not have done the morning of a workshop.

I am only testing this because we are offering people a chance to come get help with installing the software prior to a workshop tomorrow, and I am not a native Windows speaker.

[wking]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 02:17:49PM -0700, justbennet wrote:

I got through it, but I would probably not have done the morning of
a workshop.

Fix floated in #48.

[debpaul]

I have the same issue trying to install on an old Windows 7 Enterprise. The installer doesn't finish, so I get sqlite not found. This is a win 64-bit machine.