Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/..../

Question

I got the following error installing a dependency with pip:

pip9.exceptions.InstallationError Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/tmpoons7qgkbuild/opencv-python/

Below is the result of running the command pipenv install opencv-python on a recent linux (5.4.0 x64) system.

Locking [packages] dependencies…
self.repository.get_dependencies(ireq):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pipenv/patched/piptools/repositories/pypi.py", line 174, in get_dependencies
    legacy_results = self.get_legacy_dependencies(ireq)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pipenv/patched/piptools/repositories/pypi.py", line 222, in get_legacy_dependencies
    result = reqset._prepare_file(self.finder, ireq, ignore_requires_python=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pipenv/patched/notpip/req/req_set.py", line 644, in _prepare_file
    abstract_dist.prep_for_dist()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pipenv/patched/notpip/req/req_set.py", line 134, in prep_for_dist
    self.req_to_install.run_egg_info()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pipenv/vendor/pip9/req/req_install.py", line 435, in run_egg_info
    call_subprocess(
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pipenv/vendor/pip9/utils/__init__.py", line 705, in call_subprocess
    raise InstallationError(
pip9.exceptions.InstallationError: Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/tmpoons7qgkbuild/opencv-python/

Answer 1

How to fix the pip9.exceptions.InstallationError

Make sure the version of your pip and setuptools is sufficient for manylinux2014 wheels.

A) System Install

sudo python3 -m pip install -U pip
sudo python3 -m pip install -U setuptools

B) Virtual Env / Pipenv

# Within the venv
pip3 install -U pip
pip3 install -U setuptools

Explanation

For me, python setup.py egg_info probably failed because of a recent change in python wheels, as manylinux1 wheels were replaced by manylinux2014 wheels according to open-cv faq.

Answer 2

I solved a similar issue following this link https://www.edureka.co/community/69396/command-python-setup-info-failed-error-build-8nhf9w2t-grpcio and using the following command:

$ pip3 install --upgrade setuptools
$ pip3 install --upgrade pip

Answer 3

I just ran into a similar problem when trying to install the Google Cloud Platform package for BigQuery on Python 3.6 which was throwing me the following error: (couldn't copy and paste before I lost it, so this is a approximation of the exact error I got)

[...]InstallationError: Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/<some_folder>/grpcio/

And after following other threads with the most recommended options to upgrade the setuptools, not using the cached packages, using the local user option, etc... Nothing worked

python3 -m pip install --user --no-cache-dir google-cloud-bigquery
python3 -m pip install --upgrade setuptools

Then, when looking a bit more carefully into the actual error message, I could see that the failing line was also referring to what I thought may be another dependency package: grpcio

So sure enought, I thought about trying also to upgrade or re-install that grpcio package and see what would happen.

I tried first with just upgrading that package:

python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir --user --upgrade grpcio

And it did upgrade fine. So next I tried to upgrade the google-cloud-bigquery package again, and this time around it also worked perfectly and that solved the problem!

So basically it seems that ensuring the whole dependency chain is available and installed properly may do the trick as well, which makes total sense when you think about it

I hope this helps some people.

Answer 4

I hava a same problem.

When I execute:

pip install jupyterlab

it throw an error:

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/tmp/pip-build-p0u6Wd/jupyterlab

I try many ways, they all failed.

Finaly, I find there is an anther pip in my computer:

$ pip --version
pip 6.1.1 from /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages (python 2.7)

$ pip3 --version
pip 21.2.4 from /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip (python 3.9)

I use pip3 fix the problem:

pip3 install jupyterlab