# Debian 12 Pandora extension issue

**URL:** <https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/debian-12-pandora-extension-issue/5890>\
**Category:** Help and support\
**Created:** [January 20, 2024, 8:09pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/debian-12-pandora-extension-issue/5890 "2024-01-20T20:09:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Drizzt321](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Drizzt321](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/Drizzt321)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 8:09pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/debian-12-pandora-extension-issue/5890/1 "2024-01-20T20:09:17Z")

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So I’m using Mopidy on Debian 12, and trying to install the Pandora extension. However, there’s no Debian package (e.g. like `mopidy-soundcloud` for Soundcloud extension). On the extension page, says to install via `python3 pip`. Debian 12 has changed things, so it won’t install it, and recommends using `venv` or `pipx`.

```auto
python3 -m pip install Mopidy-Pandora
error: externally-managed-environment

× This environment is externally managed
╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try apt install
    python3-xyz, where xyz is the package you are trying to
    install.
    
    If you wish to install a non-Debian-packaged Python package,
    create a virtual environment using python3 -m venv path/to/venv.
    Then use path/to/venv/bin/python and path/to/venv/bin/pip. Make
    sure you have python3-full installed.
    
    If you wish to install a non-Debian packaged Python application,
    it may be easiest to use pipx install xyz, which will manage a
    virtual environment for you. Make sure you have pipx installed.
    
    See /usr/share/doc/python3.11/README.venv for more information.

```

I installed via `pipx`, but I’m getting `WARNING [MainThread] mopidy.config Ignoring config section 'pandora' because no matching extension was found` that the extension isn’t there. Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![kingosticks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/858c86/32.png) [@kingosticks](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/kingosticks)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2024, 9:03pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/debian-12-pandora-extension-issue/5890/2 "2024-01-20T21:03:32Z")

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You can do

```auto
sudo python3 -m pip install --upgrade --break-system-packages mopidy-whatever

```

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**Author:** ![system](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/system/32/1_2.png) [@system](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 9:03am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/debian-12-pandora-extension-issue/5890/3 "2024-07-21T09:03:48Z")

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