Installing Freetype

[beppeartz]

Hello i'm having this issues.
I'm running python on Monterey iMac 2015.

gs-iMac:~ giuseppesalerno$ python -m pip install --upgrade fontbakery'[freetype]' Collecting fontbakery[freetype] Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/fontbakery/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: [SSL: TLSV1_ALERT_PROTOCOL_VERSION] tlsv1 alert protocol version (_ssl.c:661) - skipping Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement fontbakery[freetype] (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for fontbakery[freetype]

[miguelsousa]

Does it work if you remove the single quotes?

python -m pip install --upgrade fontbakery[freetype]

[beppeartz]

unfortunately not

gs-iMac:~ giuseppesalerno$ python -m pip install --upgrade fontbakery[freetype] Collecting fontbakery[freetype] Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/fontbakery/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: [SSL: TLSV1_ALERT_PROTOCOL_VERSION] tlsv1 alert protocol version (_ssl.c:661) - skipping Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement fontbakery[freetype] (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for fontbakery[freetype]

[miguelsousa]

Do you mind trying the command without the [freetype] part? That will tell us if there a problem with how Font Bakery extras are requested, or if it's something else.

[beppeartz]

Sure, i did.
Same error.

[miguelsousa]

Thanks. That suggests that there's something wrong with your system that may not be specific to fontbakery.
Try something as basic as the command below, which updates pip itself. You can use any other package available at pypi.org if you prefer.

python -m pip install --update pip

[beppeartz]

it's strange coz i'm using Font Bakery for checking and works fine.

[beppeartz]

`gs-iMac:~ giuseppesalerno$ python3 --version
Python 3.11.0
gs-iMac:~ giuseppesalerno$

`

[miguelsousa]

it's strange coz i'm using Font Bakery for checking and works fine.

What works fine? I'm confused now

[beppeartz]

no unfortunately

`gs-iMac:~ giuseppesalerno$ python -m pip install --update pip

Usage:
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python -m pip install [options] [package-index-options] ...
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python -m pip install [options] -r [package-index-options] ...
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python -m pip install [options] [-e] ...
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python -m pip install [options] [-e] ...
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python -m pip install [options] <archive url/path> ...

no such option: --update
`

[miguelsousa]

OK, I see what's going on. You have both Python 2.7 and 3.11 installed. In your system the python command will invoke 2.7, which Font Bakery no longer supports. So in your case the installation command should be,

python3 -m pip install --upgrade fontbakery'[freetype]'

BUT because you have 3.11 installed the command will likely fail because Font Bakery depends on the lxml package which at the moment hasn't published a wheel for 3.11.

[miguelsousa]

no such option: --update

My bad, the correct option is --upgrade

[beppeartz]

Works!

Thank you so much

[kalapi]

I'm getting the following Freetype error when running FontBakery 0.9.2 on Python 3.8

ERROR Failed with RuntimeError: Freetype library not found                  
          ↳ File                                                                
          "/Users/UT-development/Documents/_Programming/testing_environments/FMa
          ke37/lib/python3.8/site-packages/fontbakery/checkrunner.py", line 183,
          in _exec_check                                                        
          for sub_result in result:  # Might raise.                             
          ↳ File                                                                
          "/Users/UT-development/Documents/_Programming/testing_environments/FMa
          ke37/lib/python3.8/site-packages/fontbakery/profiles/universal.py",   
          line 1726, in com_adobe_fonts_check_freetype_rasterizer               
          import freetype                                                       
          ↳ File                                                                
          "/Users/UT-development/Documents/_Programming/testing_environments/FMa
          ke37/lib/python3.8/site-packages/freetype/init.py", line 24, in       
          from freetype.raw import *                                            
          ↳ File                                                                
          "/Users/UT-development/Documents/_Programming/testing_environments/FMa
          ke37/lib/python3.8/site-packages/freetype/raw.py", line 52, in        
          raise RuntimeError('Freetype library not found')                      


    Result: ERROR

I tried installing/upgrading FontBakery using the command in @miguelsousa's comment and I get this line during install:

WARNING: fontbakery 0.9.2 does not provide the extra 'freetype'

Also getting this weird issue with trying to re-install freetype-py, maybe this is the issue?

fontbakery 0.9.2 requires freetype-py!=2.4.0, but you have freetype-py 2.4.0 which is incompatible.