Xenforo Fonttools installation for using it in Font Awesome Manager addon

Dnyan · Jun 14, 2021

I am writing this tutorial kind of post just to make help of myself in future in cases if i mess with something.

Font Awesome Manager addon can be found at below link
Beta - Font Awesome Manager

First do install python 3, the instructions are well written in below article

Sysadmin - CentOS 7 Python 2.7 will reach the end of its life on January 1st, 2020

In case if your server GCC version is below 8 or get error while making

make changes to below command given in above article for python installation.
Code:
if [[ "$(nproc)" -le '2' ]]; then time ./configure --prefix=/opt/python${python_prefixver} --with-openssl=/usr; else time ./configure --enable-optimizations --prefix=/opt/python${python_prefixver} --with-openssl=/usr; fi
do remove

--enable-optimizations

so it will be
Code:
if [[ "$(nproc)" -le '2' ]]; then time ./configure --prefix=/opt/python${python_prefixver} --with-openssl=/usr; else time ./configure --prefix=/opt/python${python_prefixver} --with-openssl=/usr; fi
Then do install Fonttools with following command
Code:
pip3 install fonttools[woff]
Once you installed the fonttools
Simple path to pyftsubset in above case of installation
/home/python_projects/myproject/bin/pyftsubset

now you can use pyftsubset in FAM.

eva2000 · Jun 14, 2021

FYI, you should be fine with just using Python 3.6 supported side by side with Python 2.7 on CentOS 7

Just run the python 3.6 installer addon for Centmin Mod

Code (Text):

/usr/local/src/centminmod/addons/python36_install.sh

Then you can call that version of pip via pip3.6 command

Code (Text):

pip3.6 install -U pip
pip3.6 install fonttools
pip3.6 install fonttools[woff]

Code (Text):

 pip3.6 install fonttools
WARNING: pip is being invoked by an old script wrapper. This will fail in a future version of pip.
Please see https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5599 for advice on fixing the underlying issue.
To avoid this problem you can invoke Python with '-m pip' instead of running pip directly.
Collecting fonttools
  Downloading fonttools-4.24.4-py3-none-any.whl (854 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 854 kB 19.9 MB/s
Installing collected packages: fonttools
Successfully installed fonttools-4.24.4
WARNING: Running pip as root will break packages and permissions. You should install packages reliably by using venv: https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/venv

Code (Text):

pip3.6 install fonttools[woff]
WARNING: pip is being invoked by an old script wrapper. This will fail in a future version of pip.
Please see https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5599 for advice on fixing the underlying issue.
To avoid this problem you can invoke Python with '-m pip' instead of running pip directly.
Requirement already satisfied: fonttools[woff] in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (4.24.4)
Collecting brotli>=1.0.1
  Downloading Brotli-1.0.9-cp36-cp36m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (357 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 357 kB 13.3 MB/s
Collecting zopfli>=0.1.4
  Downloading zopfli-0.1.8-cp36-cp36m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (41 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 41 kB 1.6 MB/s
Installing collected packages: zopfli, brotli
Successfully installed brotli-1.0.9 zopfli-0.1.8
WARNING: Running pip as root will break packages and permissions. You should install packages reliably by using venv: https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/venv

FYI, the old script wrapper message is just telling you to change from

Code (Text):

pip3.6 install fonttools
pip3.6 install fonttools[woff]

to

Code (Text):

python3.6 -m pip install fonttools
python3.6 -m pip install fonttools[woff]

Chris · Sep 1, 2021

What is the path to the directory 'pyftsubset' if we follow your line @eva2000

eva2000 · Sep 1, 2021

tried just running

Code (Text):

updatedb
locate pyftsubset

edit, using verbose flag will show you where pyftsubset is installed too

Code (Text):

python3.6 -m pip install fonttools --force --verbose
Using pip 21.2.4 from /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip (python 3.6)
Collecting fonttools
  Using cached fonttools-4.26.2-py3-none-any.whl (870 kB)
Installing collected packages: fonttools
  Attempting uninstall: fonttools
    Found existing installation: fonttools 4.26.2
    Uninstalling fonttools-4.26.2:
      Removing file or directory /usr/local/bin/fonttools
      Removing file or directory /usr/local/bin/pyftmerge
      Removing file or directory /usr/local/bin/pyftsubset
      Removing file or directory /usr/local/bin/ttx
      Removing file or directory /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/fontTools/
      Removing file or directory /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/fonttools-4.26.2.dist-info/
      Removing file or directory /usr/local/share/man/man1/ttx.1
      Successfully uninstalled fonttools-4.26.2
  changing mode of /usr/local/bin/fonttools to 775
  changing mode of /usr/local/bin/pyftmerge to 775
  changing mode of /usr/local/bin/pyftsubset to 775
  changing mode of /usr/local/bin/ttx to 775
Successfully installed fonttools-4.26.2

rdan · Feb 3, 2022

Any clue about this error on the default python 2.7?

Code:

# pip install fonttools[woff]
DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 reached the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 is no longer maintained. pip 21.0 will drop support for Python 2.7 in January 2021. More details about Python 2 support in pip can be found at https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/development/release-process/#python-2-support pip 21.0 will remove support for this functionality.
Requirement already satisfied: fonttools[woff] in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (3.44.0)
Collecting brotli>=1.0.1; platform_python_implementation != "PyPy" and extra == "woff"
  Using cached Brotli-1.0.9-cp27-cp27mu-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (355 kB)
Collecting zopfli>=0.1.4; extra == "woff"
  Using cached zopfli-0.1.9.zip (79 kB)
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /usr/bin/python2 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-_qaNcl/zopfli/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-_qaNcl/zopfli/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-rNXMGY
         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-_qaNcl/zopfli/
    Complete output (23 lines):
    Couldn't find index page for 'setuptools_scm' (maybe misspelled?)
    No local packages or download links found for setuptools-scm
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-install-_qaNcl/zopfli/setup.py", line 90, in <module>
        setup_requires=["setuptools_scm"],
      File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 112, in setup
        _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 265, in __init__
        self.fetch_build_eggs(attrs.pop('setup_requires'))
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 289, in fetch_build_eggs
        parse_requirements(requires), installer=self.fetch_build_egg
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 618, in resolve
        dist = best[req.key] = env.best_match(req, self, installer)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 862, in best_match
        return self.obtain(req, installer) # try and download/install
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 874, in obtain
        return installer(requirement)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 339, in fetch_build_egg
        return cmd.easy_install(req)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 617, in easy_install
        raise DistutilsError(msg)
    distutils.errors.DistutilsError: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('setuptools-scm')
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

eva2000 · Feb 3, 2022

As per above replies, you need Python 3 not 2.7 for Fonttools https://community.centminmod.com/th...-font-awesome-manager-addon.21574/#post-89485

rdan · Feb 3, 2022

Website says:
FontTools requires Python 3.7 or later.

fonttools

eva2000 · Feb 3, 2022

Have you tried with Python 3.6 in above linked instructions ?

eva2000 · Feb 3, 2022

FYI, fonttools 4.28+ need Python 3.7, but CentOS python 3.6 installs fonttools 4.27.1 fonttools

rdan · Feb 3, 2022

Dnyan said: ↑

Font Awesome Manager addon can be found at below link
Beta - Font Awesome Manager
Click to expand...

Using this addon on XF2.2 and CentOS 7.9 default Python 2.7 (without the extra Python 3.6 install)

I can just use pyftsubset with these pip install commands:

pip install fonttools
pip install Brotli
Click to expand...

rdan · Feb 3, 2022

By doing so... Transfonter.org vs pyftsubset local with Brotli:
File size decrease from 16.2kb to 15kb.
Nice

eva2000 · Feb 3, 2022

Nice. I started an updated thread of how I did this at https://community.centminmod.com/th...for-xenforo-font-awesome-manager-addon.22449/

Sunka · Feb 10, 2022

eva2000 said: ↑

Nice. I started an updated thread of how I did this at https://community.centminmod.com/th...for-xenforo-font-awesome-manager-addon.22449/
Click to expand...

@eva2000
How to delete/uninstall all of that if we did like in your tutorial quoted above?

eva2000 · Feb 11, 2022

No need to delete if you followed my post above, you'd just have fonttools installed in 2 locations

but if you installed with below

Code (Text):

python3.6 -m pip install fonttools --force --verbose
Using pip 21.2.4 from /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip (python 3.6)
Collecting fonttools
  Using cached fonttools-4.26.2-py3-none-any.whl (870 kB)
Installing collected packages: fonttools
  Attempting uninstall: fonttools
   Found existing installation: fonttools 4.26.2
   Uninstalling fonttools-4.26.2:
     Removing file or directory /usr/local/bin/fonttools
     Removing file or directory /usr/local/bin/pyftmerge
     Removing file or directory /usr/local/bin/pyftsubset
     Removing file or directory /usr/local/bin/ttx
     Removing file or directory /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/fontTools/
     Removing file or directory /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/fonttools-4.26.2.dist-info/
     Removing file or directory /usr/local/share/man/man1/ttx.1
     Successfully uninstalled fonttools-4.26.2
  changing mode of /usr/local/bin/fonttools to 775
  changing mode of /usr/local/bin/pyftmerge to 775
  changing mode of /usr/local/bin/pyftsubset to 775
  changing mode of /usr/local/bin/ttx to 775
Successfully installed fonttools-4.26.2

I believe you can uninstall via

Code (Text):

python3.6 -m pip uninstall fonttools

MaximilianKohler · Jul 9, 2023

I'm seeing 3 different sets of instructions in this thread.
1. The OP.
2. rdan's method.
3. eva's method.

What's the deal? I guess I'll go with eva's method...

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