Steps to install Marlin Binary Protocol on Debian using paukstelis OctoPrint install

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paukstelis OctoPrint on standard Debian: https://github.com/paukstelis/octoprint_install

I've been wanting to use the Firmware Updater for months, pretty much since I had discovered it. And I've only started my 3D printing journey in Thanksgiving 2022. However, OctoPrint has moved the base code to Python 3 and MBT depends on a package called heatshrink, which is not 3 friendly. I've scoured the internet and could not find any solution to this issue. So, I found my own.

I cloned the following repo into my ~/OctoPrint/Bin folder: https://github.com/trippwill/marlin-binary-protocol.git, then copied the following following items into the bin folder; binproto2, README.md, and setup.py. Once that was done, I ran the following command with the easy_install-3.9 found in the bin folder: ./easy_install-3.9 ~/OctoPrint/bin/ install.

But wait! It failed! On heatshrink! Ok, time to do some sleuthing. I opened setup.py (using your choice editor), and started messing with the requirements. Removed heatshrink2, failed. Placed wheel into the requirements, failed. Reverted back to the original, and removed the first heatshrink... success! Rebooted OctoPrint service, and the plugin can now see the package. Set the delays as found by MRiscoC here: OctoPrint/OctoPrint-FirmwareUpdater#317. And flashed, flashing failed?

Had to power cycle the printer, but I'm happy to report that the update was actually a success!

Steps:
Log into host machine, ssh, GUI. Whatever, we just need a terminal.
cd OctoPrint/bin (default install location if installed using the above, otherwise, this is the location of your pip exec)
git clone https://github.com/trippwill/marlin-binary-protocol.git (this will make a new folder inside bin)
cd marlin-binary-protocol
cp -R marlin-binary-protocol/README.md ~/OctoPrint/bin/
cp -R setup.py ~/OctoPrint/bin/
cp -R binproto2/ ~/OctoPrint/bin/binproto2
cd ..
nano setup.py
change the following line
from: install_requires=["heatshrink>=0.3.2", "heatshrink2>=0.9", "pyserial>=3.4", "backports.time_perf_counter; python_version < '3.3'"],
to: install_requires=["heatshrink2>=0.9", "pyserial>=3.4", "backports.time_perf_counter; python_version < '3.3'"],
save and exit
./easy_install-3.9 ~/OctoPrint/bin/ install
restart your octoprint instance and enjoy!