Set up a virtual enviroment with code craft

Create a folder named project in your home directory

mkdir project

change the terminal to your new project folder

cd project

....user_name@raspberrypi:/project~$

Create a venv named venv in our project folder

python3 -m venv venv

Activate the virtual enviroment so we can install libarys and module

. venv/bin/activate

....(venv)user_dir@raspberrypi:/project~$

Install RPI.GPIO libary module into the virtual enviroment

pip install RPIO.GPIO

Add our user_name to the group gpio so we can use and access the pins

sudo usermod -aG gpio user_name

set the permissions so you can access and execute the files in our project folder

sudo chmod -R 770 /home/user_name/project

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