[BUG] venv podman-compose detection is broken

[aarron-lee]

quickstart.sh complains that podman-compose is not installed in the venv, even though it actually is in the venv.

running setup.sh also says that podman-compose is not installed in the venv.

See Below:

# setup.sh
INFO: Checking if podman is installed
SUCCESS: podman is installed: podman version 5.7.0
INFO: Checking if podman-compose is installed
INFO: Python environment: Virtual environment at /home/aarron/.local/bin/linoffice/venv
ERROR: podman-compose is not installed in virtual environment.

        HOW TO FIX:
        The virtual environment needs podman-compose installed.
        Run: /home/aarron/.local/bin/linoffice/venv/bin/python3 -m pip install podman-compose

# checking venv for podman-compose
$ /home/aarron/.local/bin/linoffice/venv/bin/python3 -m pip install podman-compose

Requirement already satisfied: podman-compose in /home/aarron/.local/bin/linoffice/venv/lib/python3.14/site-packages (1.5.0)
Requirement already satisfied: python-dotenv in /home/aarron/.local/bin/linoffice/venv/lib/python3.14/site-packages (from podman-compose) (1.2.1)
Requirement already satisfied: pyyaml in /home/aarron/.local/lib/python3.14/site-packages (from podman-compose) (6.0.3)

System information

• LinOffice version: Latest
• Linux distribution: Bazzite DX
• Desktop environment: KDE
• Wayland
• How did you install Podman-Compose (e.g. from repo or via pip): VENV

[aarron-lee]

temporary workaround:

run quickstart.sh once to generate the venv

then run

source ~/.local/bin/linoffice/venv/bin/activate
~/.local/bin/linoffice/quickstart.sh

edit: this might not necessarily work, I had to modify the code to get it to work again.

[Wallace4444]

For me - I ran:
cp /usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/podman_compose.py /.local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/podman_compose.py

That file not existing in that location was causing all the problems for me. I had the same symptoms as described above.

[eylenburg]

Should hopefully be fixed in v2.2.5

[tie-sko]

I still have this problem on Fedora 43:

...
SUCCESS: podman is installed: podman version 5.7.1
INFO: Checking if podman-compose is installed
INFO: Python environment: System Python
INFO: podman-compose at /usr/bin/podman-compose points to missing interpreter:
INFO: podman-compose at /usr/bin/podman-compose points to missing interpreter:
INFO: podman-compose at /usr/bin/podman-compose points to missing interpreter:
ERROR: podman-compose is present at /usr/bin/podman-compose but cannot run (likely a stale venv-generated wrapper).

HOW TO FIX:
1. Remove the broken wrapper: rm -f /usr/bin/podman-compose
2. Reinstall podman-compose (e.g. dnf install podman-compose, apt install podman-compose, or pip3 install --user podman-compose)

I followed the fix steps, which give the same result.

[eylenburg]

This is hopefully fixed by 3cd37b3 in v 2.2.6