Hello, what linux requirements does pants have? I'm trying to run it inside docker.io/centos:8.2.2004 and I get an error when building the linters https://pastebin.com/EBBa13Ey

Hey Razvan, welcome. Centos and most distros should work in general. We only know Alpine to not work. What Pants version are you using? You can run

./pants --version

. Also, what does

which -a python

and

which -a python3

show? If you’re using 1.30, it requires

python

to be discoverable, and many Linux distros don’t have it, hence file not found error. That’s fixed in 2.0.0a2, which is generally a much more polished experience. Only caveat is that Protobuf isn’t working in that release yet. (We plan to switch the docs to default to 2.0 this week - we only need to update a page first. You can manually switch the version of the docs in the top left corner iirc)

1.30.0

Cool, that’s likely the issue. You can upgrade by changing the pants_version option to 2.0.0a2 in pants.toml

if i symlink to python3 will it work ?

Yep, that works too!

thanks for your help, symlink solved it

In 2.0, the more robust fix is that we search for python, python2, and python3, and only need one to exist. But yes, a symlink is another workaround

in this case, double thanks if you're in the US