# VASL Templates

I'm trying to get VASL Templates to run on my laptop so that I can create nice setups for Advanced Squad Leader. As it turns out, I have to use `pipx` because that automatically creates virtual environments for me, as far as I understand.

=> https://vasl-templates.org/ VASL Templates

```
cd src
git clone https://code.pacman-ghost.com/public/vasl-templates.git
cd vasl-templates
pipx install .
```

As it turns out, this is not enough:

```
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/alex/.local/bin/vasl-templates", line 5, in <module>
    from vasl_templates.main import main
  File "/home/alex/.local/pipx/venvs/vasl-templates/lib/python3.11/site-packages/vasl_templates/main.py", line 19, in <module>
    import PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyQt5'
```

So now you need to install PyQt5 into the virtual environment used by vasl-templates:

```
pipx inject vasl-templates PyQt5
```

Next error:

```
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/alex/.local/bin/vasl-templates", line 5, in <module>
    from vasl_templates.main import main
  File "/home/alex/.local/pipx/venvs/vasl-templates/lib/python3.11/site-packages/vasl_templates/main.py", line 19, in <module>
    import PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets'
```

Fix:

```
pipx inject vasl-templates PyQtWebEngine
```

And now it works at last! 😅

​#Advanced_Squad_Leader

@Sandra@idiomdrottning.org recommends fpm, i.e. building a Debian package and installing that, instead.

=> https://idiomdrottning.org/fpm-python recommends fpm

> The awesomest part is that they don’t go in their own venvs or dockers or chroots or their own li’l boring & redundant worlds. Instead it’s all according to traditional Debian philosophy, all part of the same file system with no redundancy.