ZmEventNotification: how to use a python virtual environment instead of system python

[bzzmid]

Hello to all,

I've googled around but I've not found anything relevant: in case it was right beneath my eyes, I'm sorry.

I'd like to install zmeventnotification in such a way it can use a custom python virtual environment (with all the packets ZM ES needs) instead of the default system-wide installation of python.

I've noticed that the first two lines of install.sh are:

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PYTHON=${PYTHON:-python3}
PIP=${PIP:-pip3}

I was wondering whether it would be enough to hard edit the two variables to the path to a custom virtual environment. Is there anything else that should be edited and I'm not aware of?

Thank you in advance

[volfan6415]

Any updates here? I had a working eventnotification server and upgraded to 24.04 and now python is complaining about needing a virtual environment to get the machine learning hooks setup. What is the proper path forward?

[burger]

I ran into this when installing on Debian 12 / Devuan 5. I just set it to --break-system-packages for the time being. It's not critical enough for me to troubleshoot further. See: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/ZMES#This_e ... ystem-wide,