Alright, I'll have to dig into it to see what is causing that error.

Kurt

On Mon, Mar 1, 2021, at 1:28 PM, Peter Vollan wrote:
> Okay, no, I have python3
> 
> 
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 13:23, Kurt McCullum <ku...@fastmail.com> wrote:
>> __
>> You will need python 3 to run it properly.
>> 
>> On Mon, Mar 1, 2021, at 1:09 PM, Peter Vollan wrote:
>>> I think it is 2.7
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 12:53, Kurt McCullum <ku...@fastmail.com> wrote:
>>>> __
>>>> Great. Next check, is python3 installed. The DB installer should require 
>>>> it, but I wanted to check.
>>>> 
>>>> The error would indicate that its the *sys.argv[1:] which is causing the 
>>>> error but I'll have to do some more digging as I have not run into this 
>>>> one before.
>>>> 
>>>> Kurt
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Mar 1, 2021, at 12:42 PM, Peter Vollan wrote:
>>>>> yes, it is. I used the deb package installer/
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 12:40, Kurt McCullum <ku...@fastmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> __
>>>>>> is the file mcomm.py located in /usr/share/mcomm? The DEB installer will 
>>>>>> put it there but if you pulled it down manually then you need to make 
>>>>>> sure the paths are correct or tweak the code to look in the folder you 
>>>>>> placed the files.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Kurt
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 1, 2021, at 12:16 PM, Peter Vollan wrote:
>>>>>>> Installing and then running mComm on my linux laptop, I got the 
>>>>>>> following error message:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>   File "/usr/bin/mcomm", line 6
>>>>>>>     subprocess.call(["python3", "/usr/share/mcomm/mcomm.py", 
>>>>>>> *sys.argv[1:]])
>>>>>>>                                                             ^
>>>>>>> SyntaxError: can use starred expression only as assignment target
>>>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 

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