how to install pyftsubset in Alma8?

For Almalinux/Rocky Linux 8, python 3.6 is default and the linked above steps are applicable if you want to isolate your python installed software in virtual environment separate from system wide environment

Install virtualenv and create a directory to house the python projects at /home/python_projects. You're telling virtualenv to create an environment with default python 3.6 binary /usr/bin/python3.6 and name the virtual environment as fonttools. Then using source command to activate the environment

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pip install virtualenv
mkdir -p /home/python_projects
cd /home/python_projects
virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3.6 fonttools
source fonttools/bin/activate

With the fonttools environment activated run the commands to update pip and install fonttools and dependencies.

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# pip doesn't like ccache so disable it
export CC='gcc'
export CXX="g++"

# pip needs a tmp directory that doesn't have noexec restrictions
mkdir -p /home/piptmp
chmod 1777 /home/piptmp
export TMPDIR=/home/piptmp

python3.6 -m pip install -U pip
pip --version
python3.6 -m pip install fonttools --verbose --force
python3.6 -m pip install zopfli --verbose --force
python3.6 -m pip install brotli --verbose --force

You can find where pyftsubset was installed via locate command and you can see it was

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updatedb
locate pyftsubset
/home/python_projects/fonttools/bin/pyftsubset

 

just run commands but instead use uninstall

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pip3 uninstall fonttools
pip3 uninstall Brotli
pip3 uninstall Zopfli

Depends on what you're installing. For these 3 probably be fine, but getting into habit of virtual environments makes it cleaner. Google search for python virtualenv and read up on why and how.

 

yup - updated for EL9 as well in 1st post https://community.centminmod.com/th...-font-awesome-manager-addon.22449/#post-91930

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locate pyftsubset
/home/python_projects/fonttools/bin/pyftsubset

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python --version
Python 3.9.18