Hi folks,

First of all, thanks for your work on Mycroft. I just found out about the platform yesterday and am very intrigued. I'm using mycroft-core as packaged here: https://git.covolunablu.org/portaloffreedom/mycroft-core-PKGBUILD/

Whenever I try to install a skill, I am getting a Python TypeError:

>>> systemctl status --user mycroft-skills                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
● mycroft-skills.service - Mycroft skills provider
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/mycroft-skills.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2018-03-14 16:47:31 EDT; 6min ago
 Main PID: 22185 (mycroft-skills)
    CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/[email protected]/mycroft-skills.service
           └─22185 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/mycroft-skills

Mar 14 16:54:07  mycroft-skills[22185]:   File "/home/user/.mycroft/skills/skill-installer/__init__.py", line 96, in get_skill_list
Mar 14 16:54:07  mycroft-skills[22185]:     self.ansi_escape.sub('', check_output([BIN, 'list'])).split('\n')
Mar 14 16:54:07  mycroft-skills[22185]: TypeError: cannot use a string pattern on a bytes-like object

About my system:

• Python 3.6.4
• Linux 4.15.7-1-MANJARO
• x86_64
• KDE Plasma

It would be nice to be able to ask things such as
"Is Spotify installed?"

I was wondering why installing does not require the vocabulary "skill", where uninstalling does.
Are there other parts of Mycroft we are able to uninstall with a voice command? "Hey Mycroft, uninstall core"?

Support "Disable ...", which would add the skill to a USER level blacklist.

The default config looks like this

  "skills": {
    "blacklisted_skills": ["skill-media", "send_sms", "skill-wolfram-alpha"],
  }

We'd want to do some magic to merge the SYSTEM level list. This allows even Default skills to be turned off.

Getting below error when trying to use skill, appears there might be a code issue here.

2017-09-21 14:41:22,148 - mycroft.skills.core - ERROR - An error occurred while processing a request in SkillInstallerSkill
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mycroft_core-0.8.22-py2.7.egg/mycroft/skills/core.py", line 356, in wrapper
    handler(message)
  File "/opt/mycroft/skills/skill-installer/__init__.py", line 55, in install
    elif text.splitlines()[2] == "Skill installed!":
IndexError: list index out of range

what about migrating this to the new py_msm package?

i would be more than happy to make any needed changes to the package itself if needed, this is the exact use case i have for it

instead of making my own skill i wanted your opinion about this

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I'm always frustrated when installing a new skill from the Marketplace and MyCroft asks for my confirmation that I want to install a skill, but I can't tell that it heard me and it started to install the requested skill. The only acknowledgement to a user after a request to install is when the skill install completes. Depending on the network, size and complexity of the skill to be installed, and processing of device an intermediary acknowledgement would be useful to make the install more intuitive. Right now the lack of an acknowledgement leaves too long a gap between the confirmation and install which can feel like the device did not hear the confirmation to install the skill and that it fell back to listening for a new command instead of installing.

Describe the solution you'd like
Add an acknowledgement response between the "install.confirm.dialog" of "Confirming: Shall I install {{skill}} by {{author}}." and "install.complete.dialog" - "{{skill}} is now installed and ready for use". Ideally with a state indicator that an install is in progress. An acknowledgement should

Solution 1. add "I'm now installing {{skill}} and will let you know when it is ready." and a install progress indicator on the device screen or lights (Mark1 & Mark2 - could display "installing {{skill name}}" as text)
Solution 2. add "I'm now installing {{skill}} and will let you know when it is ready."

I can conclude the confirm dialog only with "yes" and not with "ja" (german).

On my Mark1, when I say install ping Mycoft says Installing... but then nothing seems to happen (looking at ps faux I don't see anything, and looking in the skills directory nothing appears).

When loading, this message shows app in debug (sorry for my English, i`m from Argentina).

File "/opt/mycroft/skills/skill-installer/__init__.py", line 34, in <module> from mycroft.skills.msm_wrapper import build_msm_config, create_msm ImportError: cannot import name 'build_msm_config'

It looks like build_msm_config is not defined in msm_wrapper.py, as i can confirm by opening that file and reading code. Hope it helps!! Thank you!

Ubuntu Mate 18.04
Mycroft by Git, stable branch

I have the following message on my devices for several days. whether Raspberry pi or Ubuntu Desktop can no longer install skills. my systems used core version 18.2.9 i have no idea what to do

01:47:17.661 - SkillInstallerSkill - INFO - Installer Skill web settings have changed
01:47:17.661 - mycroft.skills.core:load_skill:144 - ERROR - Failed to load skill: mycroft-installer.mycroftai
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/pi/mycroft-core/mycroft/skills/core.py", line 127, in load_skill
skill.initialize()
File "/opt/mycroft/skills/mycroft-installer.mycroftai/init.py", line 36, in initialize
self.install_word, self.remove_word = self.translate_list('action')
ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 2)