Question on setting up the project for development.

[Randy-Blancett]

I would like to take a look at contributing back to this project. So I have forked the project and tried to follow the Development directions (https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/development/) I have checked out the code and (I Think) have followed the directions correctly. However I get to step 6

6. Apply migrations and create a superuser for your development instance:

# src/

$ python3 manage.py migrate
$ python3 manage.py createsuperuser

I go into the src directory, and try to run python3 manage.py migrate and i get the following

$ python3 manage.py migrate
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/darkowl/workspace/github/paperless-ngx/src/manage.py", line 10, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "/home/darkowl/.local/share/virtualenvs/paperless-ngx-n38YyYuL/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 442, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "/home/darkowl/.local/share/virtualenvs/paperless-ngx-n38YyYuL/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 436, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "/home/darkowl/.local/share/virtualenvs/paperless-ngx-n38YyYuL/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 412, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
  File "/home/darkowl/.local/share/virtualenvs/paperless-ngx-n38YyYuL/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 458, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File "/home/darkowl/.local/share/virtualenvs/paperless-ngx-n38YyYuL/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 106, in wrapper
    res = handle_func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/darkowl/.local/share/virtualenvs/paperless-ngx-n38YyYuL/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/migrate.py", line 100, in handle
    self.check(databases=[database])
  File "/home/darkowl/.local/share/virtualenvs/paperless-ngx-n38YyYuL/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 485, in check
    all_issues = checks.run_checks(
  File "/home/darkowl/.local/share/virtualenvs/paperless-ngx-n38YyYuL/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/core/checks/registry.py", line 88, in run_checks
    new_errors = check(app_configs=app_configs, databases=databases)
  File "/home/darkowl/workspace/github/paperless-ngx/src/paperless_tesseract/checks.py", line 24, in check_default_language_available
    installed_langs = get_tesseract_langs()
  File "/home/darkowl/workspace/github/paperless-ngx/src/paperless_tesseract/checks.py", line 11, in get_tesseract_langs
    proc = subprocess.run(
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 503, in run
    with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process:
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 971, in __init__
    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 1738, in _execute_child
    and os.path.dirname(executable)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/posixpath.py", line 152, in dirname
    p = os.fspath(p)
TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not NoneType

I am unsure what I am doing wrong here. The only things that I found diffrent on my system vs the directions were that I needed to install pipenv

pip install --user pipenv

Other than that everything up to step 6 seems to have worked as expected.

I also Checked my python version

$ python3 --version
Python 3.10.12

Just as a note python3 manage.py --help seems to work fine .

Thanks for any help

[stumpylog]

Looks like you're missing tesseract at the very least. Everything required for a bare metal install, you need for development.

[Randy-Blancett]

Thank you, that was the problem, I was misunderstanding the directions I thought the second set of dependencies was only required if I wanted OCRmyPDF which I was reading as additional Functionality. Thank You!

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