Hello. I am trying to install "pyinstaller" with pip. There is no ebuild for this tool, though may be not needed, I have heart that for some tools pip install is recommended way to install them, not through emerge... However, when I am trying to do so, I see this: $ pip install pyinstaller --user Collecting pyinstaller Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e2/c9/0b44b2ea87ba36395483a672fddd07e6a9cb2b8d3c4a28d7ae76c7e7e1e5/PyInstaller-3.5.tar.gz Installing build dependencies ... error ERROR: Complete output from command /usr/bin/python3.6 /usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pip install --ignore-installed --no-user --prefix /tmp/pip-build-env-ezk87alw/overlay --no-warn-script-location --no-binary :none: --only-binary :none: -i https://pypi.org/simple -- 'setuptools>=40.8.0' wheel: ERROR: ERROR: (Gentoo) Please run pip with the --user option to avoid breaking python-exec ---------------------------------------- ERROR: Command "/usr/bin/python3.6 /usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pip install --ignore-installed --no-user --prefix /tmp/pip-build-env-ezk87alw/overlay --no-warn-script-location --no-binary :none: --only-binary :none: -i https://pypi.org/simple -- 'setuptools>=40.8.0' wheel" failed with error code 1 in None Though I added "--user" option, it seems that pip ignores it. pip version is 19.1 (tried 19.3.1 also). I have no idea why it tries to install setuptools, it's already in my system (tried 40.6.3 and newer 41.5.1). And even if it is needed, why on Earth it fails?.. Could be of course bug in pip itself, but just in case, could it be related to Gentoo patches? Since error message has word "Gentoo" inside.
The same problem.
Exact same problem here when I do: pip install --user --upgrade xonsh (Doesn't matter if I put upgrade first or user first). This is very "not good"! The weird thing is a few minutes prior to that I did: pip install --user xontrib-autojump and it worked. I wonder if the problem is only when I try to upgrade?
This is the actual message. Even though I passed the --user option, it is trying to do --no-user for a dependency. Collecting xonsh Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/b8/70/c43e9a44238711d7bc4d35abbdf853881ad911e6c07bbf93afc164ba02ec/xonsh-0.9.17.tar.gz Installing build dependencies ... error ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: command: /usr/bin/python3.6 /usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pip install --ignore-installed --no-user --prefix /tmp/pip-build-env-7va1y9av/overlay --no-warn-script-location --no-binary :none: --only-binary :none: -i https://pypi.org/simple -- 'setuptools>=40.8.0' wheel cwd: None Complete output (1 lines): ERROR: (Gentoo) Please run pip with the --user option to avoid breaking python-exec ---------------------------------------- ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /usr/bin/python3.6 /usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pip install --ignore-installed --no-user --prefix /tmp/pip-build-env-7va1y9av/overlay --no-warn-script-location --no-binary :none: --only-binary :none: -i https://pypi.org/simple -- 'setuptools>=40.8.0' wheel Check the logs for full command output.
Bug #692960 is very similar: https://bugs.gentoo.org/692960
Rebuilding pip with "vanilla" USE flag fixed this. This is one of the most frustrating things I've come across. The ebuild needs to be fixed (although it does seem upstream is at fault). The error message is just completely unhelpful and misleading.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 692960 ***
