Why is python setup py saying invalid command bdist wheel on Travis CI

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My Python package has a setup py which builds fine locally on Ubuntu Trusty and on a fresh Vagrant Ubuntu Trusty VM when I provision it like this   sudo apt-get install python python-dev --force-yes --assume-yes --fix-broken curl --silent --show-error --retry 5 https   bootstrap pypa io get-pip py   sudo python2 7 sudo -H pip install setuptools wheel virtualenv --upgrade   But when I do the same on a Travis CI Trusty Beta VM   - sudo apt-get install python python-dev --force-yes --assume-yes --fix-broken - curl --silent --show-error --retry 5 https   bootstrap pypa io get-pip py   sudo python2 7 - sudo -H pip install setuptools wheel virtualenv --upgrade   I get   python2 7 setup py bdist wheel 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 wheel    This Why can I not create a wheel in python  is related but note I am installing wheel and upgrading setuptools

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It helped me to follow instructions in here:

https://packaging.python.org/guides/installing-using-linux-tools/

Debian/Ubuntu

Python 2:

sudo apt install python-pip

Python 3:

sudo apt install python3-venv python3-pip

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My fix was apt install python3-dev

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Had to install the wheel package  Everything was up to date but still giving the error   pip install wheel   then  python setup py bdist wheel    Worked without issues

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I already had wheel installed so I tried to uninstall and reinstall  and it fixed the issue   pip uninstall wheel pip install wheel   Weird

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in my case  the version of wheel pip setuptools created by venv is too old  this works   venv bin pip  install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools

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Just install  quot wheel quot   pip install wheel

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If you re using setup cfg files  add this before the install require part   setup requires       wheel     Example of setup cfg project      setup py from setuptools import setup  setup       setup cfg  metadata  name   name version   0 0 1 description   desc long description   file  README md long description content type   text markdown url   url author   author classifiers       Programming Language    Python     Programming Language    Python    3   options  include package data   true packages   find  setup requires       wheel install requires       packages     packages     packages

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Jan 2020  2 hours wasted   On a AWS Ubuntu 18 04 new machine  below installations are required   sudo apt-get install gcc libpq-dev -y sudo apt-get install python-dev  python-pip -y sudo apt-get install python3-dev python3-pip python3-venv python3-wheel -y pip3 install wheel   Especially the last line is must  However before 3 lines might be required as prerequisites   Hope that helps

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Try modifying the setup py file by importing setup from setuptools instead of distutils core

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Using Ubuntu 18 04 this problem can be resolved by installing the python3-wheelpackage   Usually this is installed as a dependency on any Python package  But especially when building container images you often work with --no-install-recommends and therefore it is often missing and has to be installed manually first

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In your setup py  if you have   from distutils core import setup   Then  change it to  from setuptools import setup   Then re-create your virtualenv and re-run the command  and it should work

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If you already have all the required modules installed you probably need to import the setuptools module in your setup py file  So just add the following line at the leading of setup py file   import setuptools from distutils core import setup   other imports and setups   This is also mentioned in wheel s documentation  https   wheel readthedocs io en stable  usage

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This problem is due to    an old version of pip  6 1 1  being installed for Python 2 7 multiple copies of Python 2 7 installed on the Trusty Beta image a different location for Python 2 7 being used for sudo   It s all a bit complicated and better explained here https   github com travis-ci travis-ci issues 4989   My solution was to install with user travis instead of sudo   - pip2 7 install --upgrade --user travis pip setuptools wheel virtualenv

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pip install wheel   worked for me  but you can also add this  setup              setup requires   wheel       to setup py and save yourself a pip install command

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I did apt-get install python3-dev in my Ubuntu and added setup requires   wheel   in setup py

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This error is weird as many proposed answers and got mixed solutions  I tried them  add them  It was only when I added pip install --upgrade pip finally removed the error for me  But I have no time to isolate which is which so this is just fyi

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If none of the above works for you  perhaps you are experiencing the same problem that I did  I was only seeing this error when attempting to install pyspark  The solution is explained in this other stackoverflow question unable to install pyspark  I post this b c it wasn t immediately obvious to me from the error message that my issue was stemming solely from pyspark s dependency on pypandoc and I m hoping to save others from hours of head scratching

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Not related to Travis CI but I ran into similar problem trying to install jupyter on my Mac OSX 10 8 5  and none of the other answers was of help  The problem was caused by building the  wheel  for the package called pyzmq  with error messages filling hundreds of pages   The solution I found was to directly install an older version of that package   python -m pip install pyzmq  17 --user   After that  the installation of jupyter succeded without errors

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