"pip install unroll": "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1

Question

I'm trying to install some packages with pip.

But pip install unroll gives me

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\MARKAN~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-wa7uco0k\unroll\

How can I solve this?

What version of windows are you running? As @hackndo says, this is a permissions problem, try running the same again with the command prompt as administrator. — Hayden Crocker, Commented Aug 28, 2016 at 10:14
I recommend everyone to follow this url for installing digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/… rather than following the official site. I got the same error but when I followed the methods in this site it worked. — Krishnadas PC, Commented Jun 24, 2017 at 16:25

Peter Mortensen · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-23 20:00:00Z

233

About the error code

According to the Python documentation:

This module makes available standard errno system symbols. The value of each symbol is the corresponding integer value. The names and descriptions are borrowed from linux/include/errno.h, which should be pretty all-inclusive.

Error code 1 is defined in errno.h and means Operation not permitted.

About your error

Your setuptools do not appear to be installed. Just follow the Installation Instructions from the PyPI website.

If it's already installed, try

pip install --upgrade setuptools

If it's already up to date, check that the module ez_setup is not missing. If it is, then

pip install ez_setup

Then try again

pip install unroll

If it's still not working, maybe pip didn't install/upgrade setup_tools properly so you might want to try

easy_install -U setuptools

And again

pip install unroll

edited May 23, 2018 at 20:00

Peter Mortensen

31.3k22 gold badges109 silver badges132 bronze badges

answered Mar 16, 2016 at 1:32

pixis

2,8611 gold badge11 silver badges26 bronze badges

354

I have the same problem and that did not fix it.
– Manu Masson
Commented Jul 24, 2016 at 7:20
19

I have the same issue on windows and it is still not working
– TsTeaTime
Commented Aug 11, 2016 at 4:07
4

Hopefully this will be indexed and returned if someone searches for it... This resolved my issue when trying to install pylint. lazy-object-proxy was failing to be installed: "error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'examples'" "Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1". Updating setuptools fixed it.
– OdinX
Commented Feb 26, 2017 at 13:12
3

pip install ez_setup was the solution for me :)
– ivanleoncz
Commented Mar 6, 2018 at 21:14
2

I tried upgrading pip without success. So I then tried this solution. When trying to install unroll via pip, I get the following error: Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/5v/vpmg1hf51cv8cxvkhw5t7s000000gn/T/pip-install-rn3yl6lt/unroll/. Any ideas what to try next? In case it's relevant, my actual use case is trying to install mySQL for mac OSX as suggested here.
– user10121139
Commented Apr 14, 2019 at 9:57

| Show 10 more comments

Peter Mortensen · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-23 20:04:34Z

Here's a little guide explaining a little bit how I usually install new packages on Python + Windows. It seems you're using Windows paths, so this answer will stick to that particular SO:

I never use a system-wide Python installation. I only use virtualenvs, and usually I try to have the latest version of 2.x & 3.x.
My first attempt is always doing pip install package_i_want in some of my Visual Studio command prompts. What Visual Studio command prompt? Well, ideally the Visual Studio which matches the one which was used to build Python. For instance, let's say your Python installation says Python 2.7.11 (v2.7.11:6d1b6a68f775, Dec 5 2015, 20:40:30) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32. The version of Visual Studio used to compile Python can be found here, so v1500 means I'd be using vs2008 x64 command prompt
If the previous step failed for some reason I just try using easy_install package_i_want
If the previous step failed for some reason I go to gohlke website and I check whether my package is available over there. If it's so, I'm lucky, I just download it into my virtualenv and then I just go to that location using a command prompt and I do pip install package_i_want.whl
If the previous step didn't succeed I'll just try to build the wheel myself and once it's generated I'll try to install it with pip install package_i_want.whl

Now, if we focus in your specific problem, where you're having a hard time installing the unroll package. It seems the fastest way to install it is doing something like this:

git clone https://github.com/Zulko/unroll
cd unroll && python setup.py bdist_wheel
Copy the generated unroll-0.1.0-py2-none-any.whl file from the created dist folder into your virtualenv.
pip install unroll-0.1.0-py2-none-any.whl

That way it will install without any problems. To check it really works, just login into the Python installation and try import unroll, it shouldn't complain.

One last note: This method works almost 99% of the time, and sometimes you'll find some pip packages which are specific to Unix or Mac OS X, in that case, when that happens I'm afraid the best way to get a Windows version is either posting some issues to the main developers or having some fun by yourself porting to Windows (typically a few hours if you're not lucky) :)

What do you mean by "build the wheel myself"? Could you give an example please? Cheers — Uncle Ben Ben, Commented Feb 8, 2018 at 16:37
Sry its not working for me, it says unroll-0.1.0-py2-none-any.whl is not supported wheel on this platform — Devashish Prasad, Commented Mar 18, 2018 at 13:13
To build a wheel: 'pip install wheel', then 'python setup.py bdist_wheel'. If bdist_wheel is not found, go into the setup.py file and comment out 'from distutils.core import setup' and import the following instead: 'from setuptools import setup'. Then cd into the dist folder and 'pip install wheel_name.whl' — Sol, Commented Jun 16, 2018 at 0:52
Try to update setuptools through pip first pip install --upgrade setuptools. This will help in most of the cases. — Fa11enAngel, Commented Jun 6, 2019 at 15:12
I followed your steps of : git clone But no luck. I'm trying to install django channels. Still getting the same error. Failed building wheel for cryptography Could not build wheels for cryptography which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly — rahim.nagori, Commented Dec 23, 2019 at 11:51

Peter Mortensen · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-23 20:11:44Z

76

It was resolved after upgrading pip:

python -m pip install --upgrade pip
pip install "package-name"

edited May 23, 2018 at 20:11

Peter Mortensen

31.3k22 gold badges109 silver badges132 bronze badges

answered Jun 13, 2017 at 15:47

Lil Ari

7615 silver badges3 bronze badges

2

Had the same problem and upgrading pip solved the issue for me as well.
– Sia
Commented Feb 9, 2018 at 8:07
4

after doing python -m pip install --upgrade pip I got Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pip", line 9, in <module> from pip import main ImportError: cannot import name main As if it broke my pip?
– Ali_Nass
Commented May 19, 2018 at 16:32
Yes, this worked for me as well while none of the solution offers above has solved the problem in my case.
– Göksenin Cakir
Commented Jan 13, 2019 at 1:14
If you use pipenv make sure to update pipenv using pip install --upgrade pipenv instead.
– Toon
Commented Sep 9, 2019 at 19:57
1

That fixed my issue. Thanks!
– Tung
Commented Mar 3, 2022 at 18:52

| Show 4 more comments

Felipe Augusto · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-12 17:25:12Z

35

I got stuck exactly with the same error with psycopg2. It looks like I skipped a few steps while installing Python and related packages.

sudo apt-get install python-dev libpq-dev
Go to your virtual env
pip install psycopg2

(In your case you need to replace psycopg2 with the package you have an issue with.)

It worked seamlessly.

edited Aug 12, 2018 at 17:25

Felipe Augusto

7,98412 gold badges42 silver badges74 bronze badges

answered Jan 25, 2017 at 13:06

SriSri

3934 silver badges10 bronze badges

1

Installed those packages on Ubuntu, the issue persists. Maybe if you shared your process, we could install the relevant packages on our systems.
– Nagev
Commented Sep 6, 2017 at 12:46
Hi Nagev, sorry, I didn't look at my messages. hope you figured it out. I followed standard python installation process. I will be installing on a new VM shortly and will get back.
– SriSri
Commented Mar 18, 2018 at 14:11
I sorted it out a long time ago @SriSri just using "apt-get install", thanks.
– Nagev
Commented Mar 20, 2018 at 7:48
@SriSri I too am getting the error for psycopg2. Is sudo apt-get install python-dev libpq-dev supposed to be done outside the venv? And do you know what the equivalent command for windows is? Thanks!
– rahs
Commented Feb 17, 2019 at 15:36
sudo apt-get install python-dev did the trick. Thank you. The obnoxious attitudes of other people who answered with invalid solutions is sickening.
– Daniel Soutar
Commented May 17, 2019 at 16:47

Add a comment |

Peter Mortensen · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-23 20:13:14Z

24

I got this same error while installing mitmproxy using pip3. The below command fixed this:

pip3 install --upgrade setuptools

edited May 23, 2018 at 20:13

Peter Mortensen

31.3k22 gold badges109 silver badges132 bronze badges

answered Oct 4, 2017 at 5:43

rashok

13.2k17 gold badges90 silver badges101 bronze badges

Add a comment |

Community · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-30 22:56:42Z

8

Download and install the Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 from https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=44266 - this package contains the compiler and set of system headers necessary for producing binary wheels for Python 2.7 packages.
Open a command prompt in elevated mode (run as administrator)
Firstly do pip install ez_setup
Then do pip install unroll (It will start installing numpy, music21, decorator, imageio, tqdm, moviepy, unroll) # Please be patient for music21 installation

Python 2.7.11 64 bit used

edited Apr 30, 2018 at 22:56

CommunityBot

11 silver badge

answered Aug 26, 2016 at 22:59

be_good_do_good

4,3913 gold badges29 silver badges42 bronze badges

1

I just get the same error: Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-QRMQDo/ez-setup/
– Nagev
Commented Sep 6, 2017 at 11:53
1

@Nagev, what is the OS type you are working on? And is possible to post complete traceback link?
– be_good_do_good
Commented Sep 6, 2017 at 13:18
I'm on Ubuntu 16.04. It's too long, I've only added the end, when doing "pip install ez_setup": return eval(compiled_marker, environment) File "<environment marker>", line 1, in <module> NameError: name 'sys_platform' is not defined ---------------------------------------- Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-NRUrS7/HTML/
– Nagev
Commented Sep 6, 2017 at 13:22

Add a comment |

Peter Mortensen · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-23 20:05:12Z

5

Other way:

sudo apt-get install python-psycopg2 python-mysqldb

edited May 23, 2018 at 20:05

Peter Mortensen

31.3k22 gold badges109 silver badges132 bronze badges

answered Jan 12, 2017 at 13:27

Thomas Philibert

4634 silver badges8 bronze badges

That's the only solution on this page that worked for me so far. I used "apt-get install python-pycurl". However, doing "pip install decalage.info/files/HTML.py-0.04.zip" brings back the issue. So pip install is still needed...
– Nagev
Commented Sep 6, 2017 at 13:17
For me I did realize that I had not installed an important dependency which is python-mysqldb. After installing the two it worked just like magic. :)
– Muema
Commented Mar 10, 2018 at 10:04
I am getting this error: Package 'python-psycopg2' has no installation candidate. I tried updating: sudo apt-get update
– Hafiz Temuri
Commented Dec 19, 2022 at 18:51

Add a comment |

Grigory Zhadko · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-22 15:54:20Z

5

It's a dependency issue.

I tried running the following commands helped me sorting out the dependencies, in my case the dependency was

grpcio

pip3 install --upgrade pip

python3 -m pip install --upgrade setuptools

pip3 install --no-cache-dir  --force-reinstall -Iv grpcio==1.36.1

pip3 install pulsar-client==2.7.0

remember you must have python3 installed in your system.

edited Mar 22, 2021 at 15:54

Grigory Zhadko

1,7361 gold badge21 silver badges37 bronze badges

answered Mar 22, 2021 at 11:48

Kanak Sharma

511 silver badge3 bronze badges

Add a comment |

Peter Mortensen · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-23 20:16:11Z

4

I had the same issue when installing the "Twisted" library and solved it by running the following command on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus):

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev build-essential

edited May 23, 2018 at 20:16

Peter Mortensen

31.3k22 gold badges109 silver badges132 bronze badges

answered Feb 15, 2018 at 8:42

Adrian Onu

6717 silver badges13 bronze badges

Add a comment |

officialrahulmandal · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-15 06:23:44Z

4

For me this worked

python3 -m pip3 install -U pip

you can also try

python -m pip install -U pip

answered Jul 15, 2021 at 6:23

officialrahulmandal

2,8181 gold badge26 silver badges34 bronze badges

Add a comment |

vvvvv · Accepted Answer · 2023-02-09 10:52:35Z

4

pip3 install --upgrade setuptools

WARNING: pip is being invoked by an old script wrapper. This will fail in a future version of pip.
Please see https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5599 for advice on fixing the underlying issue.

To avoid this problem you can invoke Python with -m pip instead of running pip directly.

Use python3 -m pip "command", eg:

python3 -m pip install --user pyqt5

edited Feb 9, 2023 at 10:52

vvvvv

29.5k19 gold badges54 silver badges94 bronze badges

answered May 7, 2020 at 2:36

Sreekanth

662 bronze badges

Add a comment |

vvvvv · Accepted Answer · 2023-02-09 10:53:24Z

4

First try:

pip install unroll

For sure not work :)

Then Try:

pip2 install unroll

Still get error Try:

pip3 install unroll

If pip3 Worked then suggest to change configuration to use pip3 as pip because you will get a lot of issues as the modern now is Python3 = pip3 if you execute a script files.

edited Feb 9, 2023 at 10:53

vvvvv

29.5k19 gold badges54 silver badges94 bronze badges

answered Jan 13, 2018 at 15:53

Zaman

8738 silver badges16 bronze badges

Add a comment |

Peter Mortensen · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-23 20:08:50Z

3

I had the same problem.

The problem was:

pyparsing 2.2 was already installed and my requirements.txt was trying to install pyparsing 2.0.1 which throw this error

Context: I was using virtualenv, and it seems the 2.2 came from my global OS Python site-packages, but even with --no-site-packages flag (now by default in last virtualenv) the 2.2 was still present. Surely because I installed Python from their website and it added Python libraries to my $PATH.

Maybe a pip install --ignore-installed would have worked.

Solution: as I needed to move forwards, I just removed the pyparsing==2.0.1 from my requirements.txt.

edited May 23, 2018 at 20:08

Peter Mortensen

31.3k22 gold badges109 silver badges132 bronze badges

answered Mar 15, 2017 at 7:37

fadomire

1,9451 gold badge15 silver badges23 bronze badges

What is this requirements.txt file? I don't seem to have it on my Ubuntu 16.04.
– Nagev
Commented Sep 6, 2017 at 12:48
1

it is a list of packages to install. see pip.readthedocs.io/en/1.1/requirements.html
– fadomire
Commented Sep 7, 2017 at 10:45

Add a comment |

Peter Mortensen · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-23 20:10:26Z

3

I ran into the same error code when trying to install a Python module with pip. @Hackndo noted that the documentation indicate a security issue.

Based on that answer, my problem was solved by running the pip install command with sudo prefixed:

sudo pip install python-mpd2

edited May 23, 2018 at 20:10

Peter Mortensen

31.3k22 gold badges109 silver badges132 bronze badges

answered Mar 19, 2017 at 18:21

NP83

1721 silver badge8 bronze badges

Add a comment |

Peter Mortensen · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-23 20:05:31Z

2

I tried all of the above with no success. I then updated my Python version from 2.7.10 to 2.7.13, and it resolved the problems that I was experiencing.

edited May 23, 2018 at 20:05

Peter Mortensen

31.3k22 gold badges109 silver badges132 bronze badges

answered Jan 18, 2017 at 17:16

J_Heywood

616 bronze badges

1

And how did you upgrade, manually downloading and building? I'd prefer not to do that as I like it to be managed. When I try "sudo apt-get install python2.7" it tells me that I'm already using the latest version (2.7.12).
– Nagev
Commented Sep 6, 2017 at 12:52
@Nagev What version are you on right now? Here is a link that gives instructions on how to specify version. I don't remember exactly how I did it. link
– J_Heywood
Commented Oct 6, 2017 at 17:31
I'm still on 2.7.12, my original issue is resolved, thanks for the link. I still find that installing via the repositories leads to fewer issues down the road.
– Nagev
Commented Oct 9, 2017 at 7:44

Add a comment |

Peter Mortensen · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-23 20:11:21Z

2

That means some packages in pip are old or not correctly installed.

Try checking version and then upgrading pip.Use auto remove if that works.
If the pip command shows an error all the time for any command or it freezes, etc.
The best solution is to uninstall it or remove it completely.
Install a fresh pip and then update and upgrade your system.
I have given a solution to installing pip fresh here - python: can't open file get-pip.py error 2] no such file or directory

edited May 23, 2018 at 20:11

Peter Mortensen

31.3k22 gold badges109 silver badges132 bronze badges

answered Mar 29, 2017 at 6:15

jack_1729

4021 gold badge4 silver badges14 bronze badges

To upgrade pip to the latest version: python -m pip install --upgrade pip
– Alejandro Blasco
Commented Apr 10, 2017 at 6:06

Add a comment |

Moradnejad · Accepted Answer · 2023-06-30 21:32:12Z

2

If `pip install --upgrade setuptools` did not work, try the following instead (python3):

python3 -m pip install --upgrade setuptools

It resolved the issue and now I am able to install unroll via:

python3 -m pip install unroll

answered Jun 30, 2023 at 21:32

Moradnejad

3,6354 gold badges32 silver badges52 bronze badges

Add a comment |

zzfima · Accepted Answer · 2021-02-03 15:37:22Z

1

next installation helps me:

pip3 install cython

answered Feb 3, 2021 at 15:37

zzfima

1,5452 gold badges14 silver badges21 bronze badges

Add a comment |

Joshua Garrison Burkhart · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-25 18:49:55Z

0

This worked for me:

sudo xcodebuild -license

answered Jan 25, 2018 at 18:49

Joshua Garrison Burkhart

4334 silver badges9 bronze badges

Add a comment |

Juniper Jones · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-02 18:16:58Z

0

Upgrading Python to version 3 fixed my problem. Nothing else did.

answered Mar 2, 2018 at 18:16

Juniper Jones

7896 silver badges10 bronze badges

Add a comment |

Peter Mortensen · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-23 20:12:37Z

0

I downloaded the .whl file from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ and then did:

pip install scipy-0.19.1-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl

Note that the version you need to use (win32/win_amd-64) depends on the version of Python and not that of Windows.

edited May 23, 2018 at 20:12

Peter Mortensen

31.3k22 gold badges109 silver badges132 bronze badges

answered Jul 17, 2017 at 21:51

Vysh

7381 gold badge8 silver badges20 bronze badges

Add a comment |

Peter Mortensen · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-23 20:15:28Z

0

I had this problem using virtualenvs (with pipenv) on my new development setup.

I could only solve it by upgrading the psycopg2 version from 2.6.2 to 2.7.3. More information is at https://github.com/psycopg/psycopg2/issues/594

edited May 23, 2018 at 20:15

Peter Mortensen

31.3k22 gold badges109 silver badges132 bronze badges

answered Feb 7, 2018 at 17:46

Marco Silva

6798 silver badges8 bronze badges

Add a comment |

Billal Begueradj · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-24 04:48:50Z

0

I faced the same problem with the same error message but on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) instead:

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-w71uo1rg/poster/

I tested all the solutions provided above and none of them worked for me. I read the full TraceBack and found out I had to create the virtual environment with Python version 2.7 instead (the default one uses Python 3.5 instead):

virtualenv --python=/usr/bin/python2.7 my_venv

Once I activated it, I run pip install unirest successfully.

edited May 24, 2018 at 4:48

answered May 7, 2018 at 15:27

Billal Begueradj

22.2k45 gold badges122 silver badges140 bronze badges

Add a comment |

Stephen Rauch · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-13 02:03:12Z

0

try on linux:

sudo apt install python-pip python-bluez libbluetooth-dev libboost-python-dev libboost-thread-dev libglib2.0-dev bluez bluez-hcidump

edited Sep 13, 2018 at 2:03

Stephen Rauch♦

49.3k31 gold badges112 silver badges138 bronze badges

answered Sep 13, 2018 at 1:41

Farid Garciayala

513 bronze badges

Add a comment |

Ingenium · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-21 10:18:52Z

0

I solved it on Centos 7 by using:

sudo yum install libcurl-devel

answered Dec 21, 2018 at 10:18

Ingenium

291 silver badge3 bronze badges

Add a comment |

DaBrain · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-05 23:26:15Z

0

Had the same problem on my Win10 PC with different packages and tried everything mentioned so far.

Finally solved it by disabling Comodo Auto-Containment.

Since nobody has mentioned it yet, I hope it helps someone.

answered Jan 5, 2019 at 23:26

DaBrain

3,1754 gold badges22 silver badges29 bronze badges

Add a comment |

Barrie Reader · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-01 16:49:57Z

0

I had the same problem and was able to fix by doing the following.

Windows Python needs Visual C++ libraries installed via the SDK to build code, such as via setuptools.extension.Extension or numpy.distutils.core.Extension. For example, building f2py modules in Windows with Python requires Visual C++ SDK as installed above. On Linux and Mac, the C++ libraries are installed with the compiler.

https://www.scivision.co/python-windows-visual-c++-14-required/

edited Feb 1, 2019 at 16:49

Barrie Reader

10.7k11 gold badges74 silver badges141 bronze badges

answered Jul 29, 2018 at 17:29

Lohith Arcot

1,16614 silver badges22 bronze badges

Add a comment |

BigData-Guru · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-04 09:14:29Z

0

Following below command worked for me

[root@sandbox ~]# pip install google-api-python-client==1.6.4

answered Jun 4, 2019 at 9:14

BigData-Guru

1,2411 gold badge16 silver badges21 bronze badges

Add a comment |

Shaurya Uppal · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-04 18:56:32Z

0

Methods to solve setup.pu egg_info issue when updating setuptools or not other methods doesnot works.

If CONDA version of the library is available to install use conda instead of pip.
Clone the library repo and then try installation by pip install -e . or by python setup.py install

answered Oct 4, 2019 at 18:56

Shaurya Uppal

3,59032 silver badges31 bronze badges

Add a comment |

Livne Rosenblum · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-17 07:00:35Z

0

upgrading python's version did the work for me.

answered Mar 17, 2021 at 7:00

Livne Rosenblum

3062 silver badges12 bronze badges

Add a comment |

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

"pip install unroll": "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1

32 Answers 32

If `pip install --upgrade setuptools` did not work, try the following instead (python3):

Methods to solve setup.pu egg_info issue when updating setuptools or not other methods doesnot works.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged
python
pip
package
installation
or ask your own question.

Linked

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

32 Answers 32

If pip install --upgrade setuptools did not work, try the following instead (python3):

Methods to solve setup.pu egg_info issue when updating setuptools or not other methods doesnot works.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged pythonpippackageinstallation or ask your own question.

Linked

Related

If `pip install --upgrade setuptools` did not work, try the following instead (python3):

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged
python
pip
package
installation
or ask your own question.