#🔒 pip does not work on ubuntu VM

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dense hedgeBOT
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calm pilot
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try with --user

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or create a virtualenv

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can you be any less specific than "doesn't work"

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how about pasting the output

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whatever works

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put --user before whatever you're trying to install

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and you probably wanted -r requirements.txt

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ok, a virtualenv it is then

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I think on ubuntu you'll need python3-venv or similar package installed first

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it will probably tell you if you try python3 -m venv virtualenv

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then activate it: source virtualenv/bin/activate

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then pip install -r requirements.txt

humble flicker
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my guess: your requirements specify a very old version of something

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can you paste that file?

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---> as text, not a screenshot <---

calm pilot
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this importerror is from pip though

humble flicker
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what version of Ubuntu?

calm pilot
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distutils wasn't removed from Python until 3.13 though, so I wonder what's going on

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or was it already removed in 3.12

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oh right, it was

humble flicker
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I've reproduced the problem

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I shall now commence scratching my head

calm pilot
humble flicker
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well I can get past the problem, but it then fails with another problem. In the active virtualenv, I did pip install setuptools, and then retried pip install -r requirements.txt; now it dies with some other error

calm pilot
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can you verify the pip version with pip --version ?

simple gate
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Possibly you don't have python3-venv

calm pilot
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@nimble rover ok, try again now please

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with installing the requirements

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wtf...

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just to be sure can you pastebin it, yes?

simple gate
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Can you show the command you ran and the full output, not just the stack trace

calm pilot
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maybe an old setuptools is the issue here

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pip freeze | grep setuptools - what does this give you?

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where is that setuptools coming from then I wonder

simple gate
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No in the paste

calm pilot
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?

simple gate
calm pilot
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but if it was it should be visible in pip freeze

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and the virtualenv would be isolated from the system

simple gate
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It's coming from pip-build-env-v4sfctll

calm pilot
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and what is that

simple gate
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So some package is asking for an old setuptools?

calm pilot
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that was my theory too

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@nimble rover could you try starting to install the requirements from your list one by one?

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so we can pinpoint the culprit

simple gate
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We need the full input and output from your terminal session

calm pilot
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wait, some requirements did install? I don't think you ever mentioned that

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I was under the impression that nothing worked

simple gate
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I suspect it's been censored from the terminal output

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Please post the full uncensored input and output

calm pilot
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no, only the traceback was in the pastebin

simple gate
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Please select all the terminal session, from the prompt that you ran to the next prompt asking for another command and paste that

calm pilot
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distutils is not installable, and not on your requirements list either

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why?

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where is it trying to install distutils?

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I only see an import failure

dense hedgeBOT
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calm pilot
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that version of numpy was released in april 2023

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could be the reason it's failing

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installing setuptools might help

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because such an old version of numpy does not have wheels for python 3.12

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so it has to use setuptools to build the project

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python 3.11 was the last version with wheels for numpy 1.24.3

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try installing setuptools, then try installing numpy again

simple gate
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It looks like you're installing a version of numpy without wheels for your platform

calm pilot
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yeah I said that already

simple gate
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And that version of numpy pinned setuptools

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Because they took a long time to migrate to the new distutils way of being

calm pilot
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if numpy pins setuptools to a specific version then you just can't install this on python 3.12

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you need either a newer numpy or an older Python

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where are your requirements coming from anyway

simple gate
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Also why are you installing async_generator it's truly ancient

calm pilot
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I'm betting this is coming from someone else's project

simple gate
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!rules tos

dense hedgeBOT
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calm pilot
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yet another project that doesn't know how to do packaging

simple gate
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Google does not allow scraping

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So you won't get help with it on this server

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Also don't trust any code that has spaces in the filenames

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You can try complaining about it in #community-meta

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