Installation fails because of bdist_egg

Original LP Author: Sumana Harihareswara , LP Link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1411653

I tried to install mailman.client from master (lp:mailman.client) and got this error:

(venv)sumanah@steel:~~/repos$ cd mailman.client (venv)sumanah@steel:~~/repos/mailman.client$ python setup.py develop Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.6.10.tar.gz Extracting in /tmp/tmpmahk5gl5 Now working in /tmp/tmpmahk5gl5/distribute-0.6.10 Building a Distribute egg in /home/sumanah/repos/mailman.client creating build creating build/src creating build/src/docs creating build/src/docs/_theme creating build/src/docs/_theme/nature creating build/src/docs/_theme/nature/static creating build/src/docs/build creating build/src/docs/build/html creating build/src/docs/build/html/_sources creating build/src/docs/build/html/_static creating build/src/setuptools creating build/src/setuptools/command creating build/src/setuptools/tests creating build/src/tests creating build/src/tests/shlib_test copying setuptools/depends.py -> build/src/setuptools copying setuptools/sandbox.py -> build/src/setuptools copying setuptools/package_index.py -> build/src/setuptools copying setuptools/extension.py -> build/src/setuptools copying setuptools/init.py -> build/src/setuptools copying setuptools/archive_util.py -> build/src/setuptools copying setuptools/dist.py -> build/src/setuptools copying setuptools/command/easy_install.py -> build/src/setuptools/command copying setuptools/command/develop.py -> build/src/setuptools/command copying setuptools/command/install_egg_info.py -> build/src/setuptools/command copying setuptools/command/upload.py -> build/src/setuptools/command copying setuptools/command/bdist_wininst.py -> build/src/setuptools/command copying setuptools/command/install_scripts.py -> build/src/setuptools/command copying setuptools/command/egg_info.py -> build/src/setuptools/command copying setuptools/command/setopt.py -> build/src/setuptools/command copying setuptools/command/upload_docs.py -> build/src/setuptools/command copying setuptools/command/test.py -> build/src/setuptools/command copying setuptools/command/init.py -> build/src/setuptools/command copying setuptools/command/install.py -> build/src/setuptools/command copying setuptools/command/build_ext.py -> build/src/setuptools/command copying setuptools/command/bdist_rpm.py -> build/src/setuptools/command copying setuptools/command/register.py -> build/src/setuptools/command copying setuptools/command/alias.py -> build/src/setuptools/command copying setuptools/command/rotate.py -> build/src/setuptools/command copying setuptools/command/build_py.py -> build/src/setuptools/command copying setuptools/command/install_lib.py -> build/src/setuptools/command copying setuptools/command/saveopts.py -> build/src/setuptools/command copying setuptools/command/sdist.py -> build/src/setuptools/command copying setuptools/command/bdist_egg.py -> build/src/setuptools/command copying setuptools/tests/test_sandbox.py -> build/src/setuptools/tests copying setuptools/tests/doctest.py -> build/src/setuptools/tests copying setuptools/tests/test_easy_install.py -> build/src/setuptools/tests copying setuptools/tests/test_build_ext.py -> build/src/setuptools/tests copying setuptools/tests/test_develop.py -> build/src/setuptools/tests copying setuptools/tests/test_resources.py -> build/src/setuptools/tests copying setuptools/tests/test_packageindex.py -> build/src/setuptools/tests copying setuptools/tests/test_upload_docs.py -> build/src/setuptools/tests copying setuptools/tests/init.py -> build/src/setuptools/tests copying setuptools/tests/win_script_wrapper.txt -> build/src/setuptools/tests copying setuptools/gui.exe -> build/src/setuptools copying setuptools/cli.exe -> build/src/setuptools copying tests/install_test.py -> build/src/tests copying tests/test_distribute_setup.py -> build/src/tests copying tests/shlib_test/setup.py -> build/src/tests/shlib_test copying tests/shlib_test/test_hello.py -> build/src/tests/shlib_test copying tests/shlib_test/hellolib.c -> build/src/tests/shlib_test copying tests/shlib_test/hello.c -> build/src/tests/shlib_test copying tests/shlib_test/hello.pyx -> build/src/tests/shlib_test copying tests/api_tests.txt -> build/src/tests root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt RefactoringTool: Skipping implicit fixer: buffer root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables from 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set_literal root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt RefactoringTool: Skipping implicit fixer: ws_comma root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt RefactoringTool: Refactored build/src/tests/api_tests.txt --- build/src/tests/api_tests.txt (original) +++ build/src/tests/api_tests.txt (refactored) @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ >>> dist.py_version == sys.version[:3] True

print dist.platform

print(dist.platform) None

Including various computed attributes:: @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ You can ask a WorkingSet to find() a distribution matching a requirement::

 >>> from pkg_resources import Requirement

print ws.find(Requirement.parse("Foo==1.0")) # no match, return None

print(ws.find(Requirement.parse("Foo==1.0"))) # no match, return None None

ws.find(Requirement.parse("Bar==0.9")) # match, return distribution @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ try: ... ws.find(Requirement.parse("Bar==1.0")) ... except VersionConflict:

... print 'ok'

... print('ok') ok

You can subscribe a callback function to receive notifications whenever a new @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ once for each existing distribution in the working set, and then is called again for new distributions added thereafter::

def added(dist): print "Added", dist

def added(dist): print("Added", dist) ws.subscribe(added) Added Bar 0.9 foo12 = Distribution(project_name="Foo", version="1.2", location="f12") RefactoringTool: Files that were modified: RefactoringTool: build/src/tests/api_tests.txt copying docs/conf.py -> build/src/docs copying docs/using.txt -> build/src/docs copying docs/easy_install.txt -> build/src/docs copying docs/python3.txt -> build/src/docs copying docs/setuptools.txt -> build/src/docs copying docs/index.txt -> build/src/docs copying docs/pkg_resources.txt -> build/src/docs copying docs/roadmap.txt -> build/src/docs copying docs/build/html/_sources/using.txt -> build/src/docs/build/html/_sources copying docs/build/html/_sources/easy_install.txt -> build/src/docs/build/html/_sources copying docs/build/html/_sources/python3.txt -> build/src/docs/build/html/_sources copying docs/build/html/_sources/setuptools.txt -> build/src/docs/build/html/_sources copying docs/build/html/_sources/index.txt -> build/src/docs/build/html/_sources copying docs/build/html/_sources/pkg_resources.txt -> build/src/docs/build/html/_sources copying docs/build/html/_sources/roadmap.txt -> build/src/docs/build/html/_sources copying docs/_theme/nature/theme.conf -> build/src/docs/_theme/nature copying docs/build/html/_static/pygments.css -> build/src/docs/build/html/_static copying docs/build/html/_static/basic.css -> build/src/docs/build/html/_static copying docs/build/html/_static/nature.css -> build/src/docs/build/html/_static copying docs/_theme/nature/static/pygments.css -> build/src/docs/_theme/nature/static copying docs/_theme/nature/static/nature.css_t -> build/src/docs/_theme/nature/static copying docs/Makefile -> build/src/docs copying pkg_resources.py -> build/src copying easy_install.py -> build/src copying setup.py -> build/src copying site.py -> build/src copying distribute_setup.py -> build/src copying CONTRIBUTORS.txt -> build/src copying DEVGUIDE.txt -> build/src copying CHANGES.txt -> build/src copying README.txt -> build/src copying MANIFEST.in -> build/src copying launcher.c -> build/src root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt Skipping implicit fixer: buffer root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables from /usr/lib/python3.4/lib2to3/PatternGrammar.txt root: Generating grammar tables 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/usr/lib/python3.4/distutils/dist.py:260: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'zip_safe' warnings.warn(msg) usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...] or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...] or: setup.py --help-commands or: setup.py cmd --help

error: invalid command 'bdist_egg' /home/sumanah/repos/mailman.client/distribute-0.6.10-py3.4.egg Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/sumanah/repos/mailman.client/distribute_setup.py", line 143, in use_setuptools raise ImportError ImportError

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 19, in distribute_setup.use_setuptools() File "/home/sumanah/repos/mailman.client/distribute_setup.py", line 145, in use_setuptools return _do_download(version, download_base, to_dir, download_delay) File "/home/sumanah/repos/mailman.client/distribute_setup.py", line 125, in _do_download _build_egg(egg, tarball, to_dir) File "/home/sumanah/repos/mailman.client/distribute_setup.py", line 116, in _build_egg raise IOError('Could not build the egg.') OSError: Could not build the egg. (venv)sumanah@steel:~/repos/mailman.client$