Installing sparkfun-qwiic causes an interesting error regarding the GPS device

Qwiic System
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Hello!

I decided to try and install the Python examples for the Qwiic series for the Pi, but this happened:

pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo pip3 install sparkfun-qwiic
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://www.piwheels.org/simple
Requirement already satisfied: sparkfun-qwiic in /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/sparkfun_qwiic-1.0.12-py3.7.egg (1.0.12)
Collecting sparkfun-pi-servo-hat (from sparkfun-qwiic)
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/c3/6e/9283ac95df4fe57940c0fd772aa6f82a7b2d5e3242dc350f34fff418745e/sparkfun_pi_servo_hat-0.9.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-bme280 (from sparkfun-qwiic)
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/65/1a/458fbe35733a5b89965bb92c06d2dc5a43f7f3758f56ad0fea62b2549c26/sparkfun_qwiic_bme280-0.9.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-ccs811 (from sparkfun-qwiic)
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/70/36/a03a42ab6814368dbdfd9a03089d39902c976b28d9b76f850f892019867b/sparkfun_qwiic_ccs811-0.9.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-dual-encoder-reader (from sparkfun-qwiic)
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/7d/ba/00ddc7bd110ef38c02abae312fa86ef28fff86a730dc61acf96bb0c3c9a7/sparkfun_qwiic_dual_encoder_reader-0.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-i2c (from sparkfun-qwiic)
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/f4/6d/c474b9b8963654363e1b232eb0a3f85432f88f7e67987803801df0bfe647/sparkfun_qwiic_i2c-0.9.11-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-icm20948 (from sparkfun-qwiic)
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Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-joystick (from sparkfun-qwiic)
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Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-keypad (from sparkfun-qwiic)
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Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-max3010x (from sparkfun-qwiic)
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Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-micro-oled (from sparkfun-qwiic)
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Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-pca9685 (from sparkfun-qwiic)
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Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-proximity (from sparkfun-qwiic)
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Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-relay (from sparkfun-qwiic)
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Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-scmd (from sparkfun-qwiic)
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Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-tca9548a (from sparkfun-qwiic)
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Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-titan-gps (from sparkfun-qwiic)
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Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-twist (from sparkfun-qwiic)
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/39/3c/9f5779cf58433ba5e963eb9efc7d86a3c26d426dca852fd998e4dcd662b6/sparkfun_qwiic_twist-0.9.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting sparkfun-qwiic-ublox-gps (from sparkfun-qwiic)
Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: 404 Client Error: Not Found for url: https://pypi.org/simple/sparkfun-qwiic-ublox-gps/

pi@raspberrypi:~$

It seems the one for the GPS device hasn’t been published yet. I did try and build it from GIT with interesting results. More on that later.

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I got the same error on OSX, Ubuntu and an openwrt:

raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)

requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 404 Client Error: Not Found for url: https://pypi.org/simple/sparkfun-qwiic-ublox-gps/

Which is a real shame.

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Hello,

You can try uninstalling pip then reinstall and update. Then try running the pip command again.

If that doesn’t work try the link available on this webpage: https://pypi.org/project/sparkfun-ublox-gps/.