FAHControl fails after .rpm install on Fedora

[abitrolly]

The official control app from https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/ that I've installed on Fedora 31 starts to fail.

➜  ~ FAHControl                
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/FAHControl", line 25, in <module>
    from fah import FAHControl, load_fahcontrol_db
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'fah'

➜  ~ sudo rpm -q fahcontrol
fahcontrol-7.6.9-1.noarch

This happens, because the default Python on Fedora 31 is not Python 2. This can be proven with successfully running the app with the full path to python2.

python2 `which FAHControl`

I already reported the finding here - FoldingAtHome/fah-control#61 (comment) - but this tracker seems more appropriate. The solution is to fix .rpm packaging with explicit dependency on Python 2. This may work - FoldingAtHome/fah-control#77

[amminadabz]

Has any progress been made on this? Still having the same problem with fahcontrol 7.6.21 on Fedora 36.

[abitrolly]

With no commits for more than a year I am afraid this project is dead.

[joe-h-fah]

Development of V7 ended shortly after the release of 7.6.21, they are working on V8 now. Another person took the open source FAHControl code and updated it to work under Python 3. You can find it here - https://github.com/cdberkstresser/fah-control. I have seen reports the latest update to Python 3 has removed a function used in this version, but it does work with earlier Python 3 libraries.

Other workarounds are out there include a Snap packaged F@h download.