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Hiya,
I am using Mageia 8 Cauldron.
I have installed Howdy from Fedora package but it is missing dlib a python module.The error I get is

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/bin/howdy", line 109, in <module>
    import cli.test
  File "/usr/lib64/security/howdy/cli/test.py", line 9, in <module>
    import dlib
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dlib'


I tried to install dlib from source but it fails during build. I have requested the developer to package for Mageia already.
Has anybody got this to work?

Vanitarium wrote:I tried to install dlib from source but it fails during build.

It fails with what error message ?

You could try to install it with pip in the meantime

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pip install dlib

Hidoktor5000, I tried that by doing

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urpmi python3-pip
pip install dlib

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ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /usr/bin/python3 -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-x_kc6pif/dlib/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-x_kc6pif/dlib/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record /tmp/pip-record-u_4iembm/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /usr/local/include/python3.8/dlib


and after a long output without error at the end got this error:

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ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /usr/bin/python3 -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-x_kc6pif/dlib/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-x_kc6pif/dlib/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record /tmp/pip-record-u_4iembm/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /usr/local/include/python3.8/dlib Check the logs for full command output.


that error at the end of a very long output which seemed to have no errors

which is a known issue as per https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8368
EDIT:
I made it work!
I needed the following installs.

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dnf install  python3-devel
dnf install python2-devel

cd ~/Downloads/dlib-19.21.0
python setup.py install

This set of commands got the final output

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Extracting dlib-19.21.0-py3.8-linux-x86_64.egg to /usr/local/lib64/python3.8/site-packages
Adding dlib 19.21.0 to easy-install.pth file

Installed /usr/local/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/dlib-19.21.0-py3.8-linux-x86_64.egg
Processing dependencies for dlib==19.21.0
Finished processing dependencies for dlib==19.21.0


the final test is

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howdy test

and ..... it worked!!!

all commands as root of course...

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [SOLVED], thanks

Howdy test works so far but login, sudo,su pam files don't work. So it is NOT SOLVED....

This is more a short status report on using 3d face recognition on Mageia.
Both the 3D face recognition and fingerprint stuff are fully working on Debian based distros for years now.

Howdy v3.0 works great on Debian 12/recent Ubuntus etc, but the lower level PAM etc on Mageia don't seem to be compatible yet.

Well, you could easily compare them and add the pam module for howdy on Mageia if necessary.
See e.g. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Howdy# ... hen_needed
PAM is the same among all linux distros, so there's not really a question about compatibility.
Feel free to post journal log excerpts for the timeframe where it doesn't work.