Getting Started directions do not advise how to install atcom

Sixfab 5G Modem Kit
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I’m using Raspbian 12 (bookworm) and there is no atcom command install by default. How is it installed?

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Hi,

On Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm, pip packages should be installed within a virtual environment. After creating the virtual environment, you can install ATCom using pip.

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reference: Python on Raspberry Pi(Official Documentation)

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Got it, and thanks for the help. However, when I execute this command in the virtual environment:

(.env) pi@dev:~ $ pip3 install atcom

I get a series of failures:

WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'NewConnectionError('<pip._vendor.urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7fff91458d90>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution')': /simple/atcom/

…which ends with:

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement atcom (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for atcom

I’m not using a VPN or a proxy server. Has anyone else seen this issue? I did find this post on stackoverflow, so I tried adding a nameserver of 8.8.8.8 but this didn’t change the outcome.

This seems like an awful lot of trouble to install a python library. What can I do to get past this issue?

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I found the solution. If the SixFab board is connected, a new network is created that is causing pip install atcom to fail. When I unplugged the SixFab board, the atcom package installed properly.