Install ACME on a Raspberry Pi

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Installation on a Raspberry Pi, especially on older versions, could be a small challenge, because some of the external Python packages require extra libraries that are not necessarily available on a new Raspberry Pi.

This guide presents the necessary steps to install Python 3.11, the external Python packages and ACME on an older Raspberry Pi 3B with Raspberry Pi OS (32 bit).

Installing Python and Tools

Downloading Python Source Code

The download get the source code from the official Python repository. It could be a newer version of Python as well

wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.11.4/Python-3.11.4.tgz

Installation of necessary libraries and extra applications

sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential tk-dev libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev libreadline6-dev libdb5.3-dev libgdbm-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev libbz2-dev libexpat1-dev liblzma-dev zlib1g-dev libffi-dev libatlas-base-dev libgeos-dev gfortran git cmake libpq-dev

Unpack, Configure, make and install

tar -xzvf Python-3.11.4.tgz 
cd Python-3.11.4/
./configure --enable-optimizations
sudo make -j 4
sudo make altinstall
cd ..

Downloading and installing ACME

Installation with pip

Run the following command to install ACME from the PyPi repository:

python -m pip install acmecse

Manual Installation

The following command download the ACME repository.

git clone https://github.com/ankraft/ACME-oneM2M-CSE.git
cd ACME-oneM2M-CSE

An alternative is to download the latest release as a zip package and unpack it.

The following steps are alternatives. Run one of them.

Automatic installation and running ACME

This lets ACME perform the Python package installation.
After the installation ACME starts its setup-procdure.

For a package installation

acmecse

For a manual installation

python3.11 -m acme

Install missing Python packages manually

This should only be necessary for the manual installation.

The following command installs the required Python packages. It can be used to update the installed external packages.

python3.11 -m pip install -r requirements.txt