Debian Trixie: mlat install fails

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Hi!
After updating my raspberry to trixie I noticed feeding adsbx did not work anymore. Rerunning axfeed.sh gives the following error:

Installing mlat-client to virtual environment
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/share/adsbexchange/mlat-client-git/setup.py”, line 25, in
from setuptools import setup, Extension
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘setuptools’

Feeding adsb data works, but mlat doesn’t.
Does the adsbx install-script need to be updated to work with Trixie? If not, what else can I try?
Thank you.

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Yes, actually it affects anything that uses python 3.12 or later. As a hackaround, you could (probably manually) apply this change to script /usr/local/share/adsbexchange/git/update.sh and then run that script. You may also need to (first) apt install pkg-config if it’s not already installed.

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Hi! Thanks for the hint, it worked :slight_smile:

Would be great is adsbx could update the install script though.

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Great! I’ve dropped in a reminder that this needs attention, especially since Trixie is out. Thanks!

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