Finding the eyeD3 executable

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I just installed the abcde CD utility but it's complaining that it can't find eyeD3, the Python ID3 program. This appears to be a well-known and unresolved deficiency in the abcde dependencies, and I'm not a Python programmer, so I'm clueless.

I have the Python 2.7.12 came with Mint 18, and something called python3 (3.5.2). If I try to install eyeD3 with pip (presumably acting against 2.7.12), it says it's already installed (in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/eyeD3). I don't know how to force pip to install under python3.

If I do a find / -name eyeD3, the only other thing it turns up is /usr/share/pyshared/eyeD3. But both of those are only directories, and both just contain Python libraries, not executables.

There isn't any other file called eyeD3 anywhere on disk. Does anyone know what it's supposed to be called, where it's supposed to live, and how I can install it?

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The eyeD3 executable is supposed to be at `/usr/local/bin/eyeD3`. To install eyeD3 with python 3, you can use `pip3 install eyeD3` — sudormrfbin, Apr 01 '18 at 15:25
Tried that already: doesn't work (see text; pip says it's already installed). — Peter Flynn, Apr 05 '18 at 14:35

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 01 '18 at 16:47

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I don't know how to force pip to install under python3.

python3 -m pip install eyeD3 will install it for Python3.

answered Apr 01 '18 at 16:47

Corey Goldberg

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 05 '18 at 14:38

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Gave up...waste of my time and everyone else's sorry.

What I apparently needed was the eyed3 (lowercase 'd') non-python utility.

answered Apr 05 '18 at 14:38

Peter Flynn

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 25 '22 at 00:10

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It can often be easier to install python packages from your distribution's repository. For example, under Fedora you can do:

sudo dnf install python-eyed3

and the eyeD3 package will be installed on your system.

answered Sep 25 '22 at 00:10

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Finding the eyeD3 executable

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