pip3 installed software is not available in PATH in macos-12

[general-kroll-4-life]

Description

I am using pip3 to install robot framework and other python packages. In the macos-11 image, they are all available to subsequent steps. In the macos-12 image I encountered, at least robot framework was not available.

Platforms affected

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions - Standard Runners
• GitHub Actions - Larger Runners

Runner images affected

• Ubuntu 18.04
• Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 22.04
• macOS 10.15
• macOS 11
• macOS 12
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022

Image version and build link

Current runner version: '2.298.2'
...
Image: macos-12
Version: 20221027.1

The below link is a private build to jog my memory, please see screen grabs also:

https://github.com/stackql/stackql-devel/actions/runs/3365385197/jobs/5580799140

Is it regression?

No

Expected behavior

Packages installed with pip3 (eg robot framework) should be available to subsequent steps, as per macos-11.

Actual behavior

Getting a robot: command not found error.

Repro steps

Using the runner cited:

1. pip3 install robotframework
2. in a subsequent step robot --version

[igorboskovic3]

Hi @general-kroll-4-life, we will take a look.

[al-cheb]

Hey @general-kroll-4-life.

We have migrated python installation to use macOS universal package. Our recommendation is to use setup-python task or python3 -m syntax:

setup-python:

      - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
        with:
          python-version: '3.11' 
      - run: |
          pip3 install robotframework
      - run: |
          robot --version || true
      - run: |
          python3 -m robot --version || true

https://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#installing-python-on-macos
http://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#return-codes

251	Help or version information printed.

python3 -m syntax:

      - run: |
          pip3 install robotframework
      - run: |
          python3 -m robot --version || true

[general-kroll-4-life]

Hey @general-kroll-4-life.

We have migrated python installation to use macOS universal package. Our recommendation is to use setup-python task or python3 -m syntax:

setup-python:

      - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
        with:
          python-version: '3.11' 
      - run: |
          pip3 install robotframework
      - run: |
          robot --version || true
      - run: |
          python3 -m robot --version || true

https://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#installing-python-on-macos http://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#return-codes

251 Help or version information printed.
python3 -m syntax:

      - run: |
          pip3 install robotframework
      - run: |
          python3 -m robot --version || true

Cheers all

[al-cheb]

Close as by design.

[general-kroll-4-life]

@al-cheb this same thing is now happening in a macos-11 runnner; is this intentional?

[al-cheb]

@al-cheb this same thing is now happening in a macos-11 runnner; is this intentional?

Yep, we use the same universal package.

[kleisauke]

Is this a duplicate of issue #6507, which was fixed with commit f6632ff (but not deployed at the time of writing)? If so, the workaround in comment #6507 (comment) or waiting until the new macOS images are deployed would also fix this. 😅