Changaco
commented
4 years ago You're installing a different module. libarchive-c has a wheel, python-libarchive doesn't.
% pip install libarchive-c
Collecting libarchive-c
Downloading libarchive_c-2.9-py2.py3-none-any.whl (11 kB)
Installing collected packages: libarchive-c
Successfully installed libarchive-c-2.9
Summary Installing python-libarchive via pip using command "pip3 install python-libarchive" tries to build wheel from source code for any platform.
Problem description Python-libarchive don't have wheel on PyPI repository. So, while installing python-libarchive via pip, it builds wheel from tar file provided in PyPI which takes more time to install. Making wheel available will benefit users by minimizing installation time.
Expected Output Pip should be able to download python-libarchive wheel from PyPI repository rather than building it from source code.
@Changaco , I was able to build wheel with command "python setup.py bdist_wheel" and libarchive_c-2.9.post3-py2.py3-none-any.whl has been created in dist folder. I have tried installing in both x86 and aarch64 platform with command "pip install libarchive_c-2.9.post3-py2.py3-none-any.whl", it got installed successfully. Please let me know if any help required in building wheel and uploading it to PyPI repository.