Continuing my journey with getting MDF set up, I have more feedback :) (assuming somebody will read this eventually :lol: )

In the quick start guide - https://github.com/espressif/esp-mdf
Step 4 says to do the following to copy a folder:
cp -r $MDF_PATH/examples/get-started/ .
cd get-started/
But ...

OK finally I have solved this :)

Thanks to this comment on the github issues tab - https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/issues/4629#issuecomment-573750292

I had to clone v4.0.1 then explicitly use python3 to install the tools then I could run install.sh which would now succeed and then continue ...

I realised I pasted something wrong there, but it seems I can't edit the post so I will clarify here :)

At the stage where I realised MDF had also installed IDF in esp/esp-mdf/esp-idf, I switched to this directory, checked out v3.2 and tried to execute the install script which went like this ...

Following quick start guide at https://github.com/espressif/esp-mdf.

I have used ESP-IDF in the past so I thought I would be ok setting up MDF but I am hitting an error while setting up the toolchain.
I installed pip, pyserial, cmake, ninja as described on the page https://docs.espressif.com ...