Meshtastic (not meshtasticd) Install on Raspberry Pi Bookworm Lite

 I like to use the Lite version of Raspberry Pi O.S. and for the moment I've been sticking with Bookworm.  Due to some issues during install, I decided to document step-by-step for getting the meshtastic software installed.  Note: this is not the meshtasticd software.

• Lora radio is a Heltec v3 connected via USB but will work with a SX1262 hat/etc.

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# Install required packages

sudo apt install python3 python3-pip python3-venv -y

# Create a Meshtastic virtual environment
python3 -m venv ~/meshtastic-env

# Activate the environment
source ~/meshtastic-env/bin/activate

# Your shell prompt should change to something like:

# (meshtastic-env) pi@raspberrypi:~

# Install/Upgrade pip

pip install --upgrade pip

# Install Meshtastic inside the environment

# This step will take forever on a Pi Zero

pip install meshtastic pytap2

# This will let you run meshtastic from a regular login.

sudo ln -s ~/meshtastic-env/bin/meshtastic /usr/local/bin/meshtastic

# Test the CLI
meshtastic --help

meshtastic --nodes

# Easier to read:
# meshtastic --nodes | awk -F'│' '{print $3,$4,$5}' | sed 's/^ *//'