bill-auger wrote:

maybe this PKGBUILD works?

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/plain/PKGBUILD?h=noisy-py3-git

Most likely, it will work, but it is AUR

i was suggesting that someone should try the AUR PKGBUILD - if it works, that would help this ticket progress

I checked it in the installation image LiveISO with SystemD system initialization.
I performed commands:

pacman -Sy
pacman -S archlinux-keyring parabola-keyring
pacman -S wget fakeroot git binutils
wget "https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/plain/PKGBUILD?h=noisy-py3-git" 
chmod 777 /root
mv PKGBUILD\?h=noisy-py3-git PKGBUILD
passwd -u nobody
passwd nobody
sudo -u nobody makepkg --syncdeps
pacman -U noisy-py3-git-20180908.r54_c21e768-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

systemctl start noisy
journalctl -f -n

there is a package in pcr-testing now

i had to modify that PKGBUILD quite a lot - could you try the new package, and make sure it behave as you expect?

# pacman -U https://repo.parabola.nu/pool/parabola/noisy-git-20180908-1-any.pkg.tar.zst

$ noisy.py
/usr/bin/noisy.py: line 1: import: command not found
/usr/bin/noisy.py: line 2: import: command not found
/usr/bin/noisy.py: line 3: import: command not found
/usr/bin/noisy.py: line 4: import: command not found
/usr/bin/noisy.py: line 5: import: command not found
/usr/bin/noisy.py: line 6: import: command not found
/usr/bin/noisy.py: line 7: import: command not found
/usr/bin/noisy.py: line 8: import: command not found
/usr/bin/noisy.py: line 10: import: command not found
/usr/bin/noisy.py: line 11: from: command not found
/usr/bin/noisy.py: line 13: try:: command not found
/usr/bin/noisy.py: line 14: from: command not found
/usr/bin/noisy.py: line 15: except: command not found
/usr/bin/noisy.py: line 16: from: command not found
/usr/bin/noisy.py: line 18: try:: command not found
/usr/bin/noisy.py: line 19: syntax error near unexpected token `sys'
/usr/bin/noisy.py: line 19: `    reload(sys)'

this program has a systemd service file - the script has no shebang; so i believe it intended to be run as a service, normally

$ sudo systemctl start noisy.service

but if you read the README (/usr/share/doc/noisy/README.md), it explains that to run it manually, you need to run it under python explicitly (because there is no shebang); and pass it a config file - for the installed parabola package the command would be this:

$ python /usr/bin/noisy.py --config /usr/share/noisy/config.json

python /usr/bin/noisy.py work ok. But I can't find the location config. /opt is empty, /etc/ also

Ok, all work. Thanks a lot!