(Fixed) Issues installing python-serial

[EricvL]

Hi guys,

I decided to buy a Pi and I found one on Marktplaats. It contained no SD card, so I had to install everything from scratch. It's now running the newest PiOS BullsEye with the latest Python 3.9.9. I now get stuck when installing the python-serial package:

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RaspberryPi:~ $ sudo apt-get install python-serial
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package python-serial is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'python-serial' has no installation candidate

I do have a pyserial package installed:

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RaspberryPi:~/ToonRooter $ pip list|grep serial
pyserial          3.5b0

But I think this is python3-serial, not python-serial. And the ToonRooter doesn't work with it, I think:

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RaspberryPi:~/ToonRooter $ sudo python . --jtag-available
INFO:__main__:Starting up...
CRITICAL:__main__:No module named 'serial'

Any idea how to fix that? Do I have to downgrade to a Python 2.x release?
Thanks for any help!

Kind regrads,
Eric

[oepi-loepi]

Bullseye is te nieuw lijkt het. (Is ook logisch).

[EricvL]

Bullseye is te nieuw lijkt het. (Is ook logisch).

Hi Oepi-Loepi,

You're right, downgrading Python didn't help either, so I downgraded to Buster and now everything is working.
Thanks for your help!

Kind regards,
Eric