Will not add user

[DerekGilboe]

howdy has been successfully installed and configured and sudo howdy test produces a perfect video image. The problem occurs with sudo howdy add resulting in the following:

$ sudo howdy -add
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/howdy", line 96, in
import cli.add
File "/lib/howdy/cli/add.py", line 73, in
if not builtins.howdy_args.plain:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'Namespace' object has no attribute 'plain'

I've tried to search everywhere and no solution. Python is not one of my languages and looking at the code I cannot see what the error really is; it is in the add.py code from what I can tell.

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I've searched for similar issues already, and my issue has not been reported yet.

Linux distribution (if applicable): Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS

Howdy version 2.6.1

[BashedCode]

Hello!
I'm running similar versions.
Did you try sudo howdy add -U username ?
What do you get with sudo howdy list?

[DerekGilboe]

Hello! I'm running similar versions. Did you try sudo howdy add -U username ? What do you get with sudo howdy list?

I tried that as well before (and again) and the same errors result. The sudo howdy list produced this:

:~$ sudo howdy list
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/lib/howdy/cli/list.py", line 26, in
encodings = json.load(open(enc_file))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/dlib/.dat'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/howdy", line 104, in
import cli.list
File "/lib/howdy/cli/list.py", line 28, in
if not builtins.howdy_args.plain:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I'm thinking it is a configuration or setup issue - I've looked at the python code but nothing jumped out (and I'm not super familiar with python). From what I can see, something is off with the builtins and processing of arguments.

[BashedCode]

That first error indicates that the folder doesn't exist.

How did you install howdy? It could be permissions or similar.