`robotpy sim` not available on debian bookworm arm64 aarch64

[MikeStitt]

mikes@debian-12:~/first/tryRobotpy$ python -m venv .venvTryRobotPy
mikes@debian-12:~/first/tryRobotpy$ . .venvTryRobotPy/bin/activate
(.venvTryRobotPy) mikes@debian-12:~/first/tryRobotpy$ python -m pip list
Package    Version
---------- -------
pip        23.0.1
setuptools 66.1.1
(.venvTryRobotPy) mikes@debian-12:~/first/tryRobotpy$ python -m pip install robotpy
Collecting robotpy
  Using cached robotpy-2025.3.2.0-py3-none-any.whl (2.2 kB)
Collecting robotpy-wpiutil==2025.3.2.0
  Using cached robotpy_wpiutil-2025.3.2.0-cp311-cp311-manylinux_2_36_aarch64.whl (3.4 MB)
Collecting robotpy-wpinet==2025.3.2.0
  Using cached robotpy_wpinet-2025.3.2.0-cp311-cp311-manylinux_2_36_aarch64.whl (748 kB)
Collecting robotpy-wpimath==2025.3.2.0
  Using cached robotpy_wpimath-2025.3.2.0-cp311-cp311-manylinux_2_36_aarch64.whl (6.9 MB)
Collecting pyntcore==2025.3.2.0
  Using cached pyntcore-2025.3.2.0-cp311-cp311-manylinux_2_36_aarch64.whl (2.0 MB)
Collecting robotpy-hal==2025.3.2.0
  Using cached robotpy_hal-2025.3.2.0-cp311-cp311-manylinux_2_36_aarch64.whl (1.4 MB)
Collecting wpilib==2025.3.2.0
  Using cached wpilib-2025.3.2.0-cp311-cp311-manylinux_2_36_aarch64.whl (5.3 MB)
Collecting robotpy-wpilib-utilities<2026.0.0,>=2025.0.0
  Using cached robotpy_wpilib_utilities-2025.0.0-py3-none-any.whl (48 kB)
Collecting robotpy-cli<2026.0.0,>=2024.0.0
  Using cached robotpy_cli-2024.0.0-py3-none-any.whl (8.9 kB)
Installing collected packages: robotpy-wpiutil, robotpy-cli, robotpy-wpinet, robotpy-wpimath, robotpy-hal, pyntcore, wpilib, robotpy-wpilib-utilities, robotpy
Successfully installed pyntcore-2025.3.2.0 robotpy-2025.3.2.0 robotpy-cli-2024.0.0 robotpy-hal-2025.3.2.0 robotpy-wpilib-utilities-2025.0.0 robotpy-wpimath-2025.3.2.0 robotpy-wpinet-2025.3.2.0 robotpy-wpiutil-2025.3.2.0 wpilib-2025.3.2.0
(.venvTryRobotPy) mikes@debian-12:~/first/tryRobotpy$ robotpy --help
usage: robotpy [-h] [--main MAIN_FILE] [-v] [--ignore-plugin-errors] {run} ...

RobotPy CLI. See below for subcommands to accomplish various tasks for your robot project.

positional arguments:
  {run}                 subcommands
    run                 Executes the robot code using the currently installed HAL (this is probably not what you want unless you're on the
                        roboRIO)

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --main MAIN_FILE      The file that contains your main robot class
  -v, --verbose         Enable debug logging
  --ignore-plugin-errors
                        Ignore errors caused by RobotPy plugins (probably should fix or replace instead!)
(.venvTryRobotPy) mikes@debian-12:~/first/tryRobotpy$ robotpy sim
usage: robotpy [-h] [--main MAIN_FILE] [-v] [--ignore-plugin-errors] {run} ...
robotpy: error: argument command: invalid choice: 'sim' (choose from 'run')
(.venvTryRobotPy) mikes@debian-12:~/first/tryRobotpy$ uname -a
Linux debian-12 6.1.0-25-arm64 robotpy/mostrobotpy#1 SMP Debian 6.1.106-3 (2024-08-26) aarch64 GNU/Linux
(.venvTryRobotPy) mikes@debian-12:~/first/tryRobotpy$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Debian
Description:	Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Release:	12
Codename:	bookworm
(.venvTryRobotPy) mikes@debian-12:~/first/tryRobotpy$ dpkg --print-architecture
arm64
(.venvTryRobotPy) mikes@debian-12:~/first/tryRobotpy$ pip list
Package                  Version
------------------------ ----------
pip                      23.0.1
pyntcore                 2025.3.2.0
robotpy                  2025.3.2.0
robotpy-cli              2024.0.0
robotpy-hal              2025.3.2.0
robotpy-wpilib-utilities 2025.0.0
robotpy-wpimath          2025.3.2.0
robotpy-wpinet           2025.3.2.0
robotpy-wpiutil          2025.3.2.0
setuptools               66.1.1
wpilib                   2025.3.2.0
(.venvTryRobotPy) mikes@debian-12:~/first/tryRobotpy$ 

[auscompgeek]

You currently need to install the simulation components manually on Linux ARM. I presume these constraints were for a good reason at the time.

robotpy-meta/pyproject.toml

Lines 113 to 116 in 5ca7609

	[tool.meta.packages."pyfrc"]
	max_version = "2026.0.0"
	min_version = "2025.1.0"
	constraint = 'platform_machine != "roborio" and platform_machine != "armv7l" and platform_machine != "aarch64"'

robotpy-meta/pyproject.toml

Lines 78 to 80 in 5ca7609

	[tool.meta.packages."robotpy-halsim-gui"]
	version = "mostrobotpy"
	constraint = 'platform_machine != "roborio" and platform_machine != "armv7l" and platform_machine != "aarch64"'