Error after updating following merge of pull #80

[tkameroski]

Describe the problem I tried to update using bash following the merge of pull request #80 but got an error. See below for the transcript.

Steps to Reproduce pi@raspberrypi:~ $ bash <(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TomWhitwell/SlowMovie/main/Install/install.sh) % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 5648 100 5648 0 0 23932 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 23932 Hit:1 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster InRelease Hit:2 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster InRelease Reading package lists... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done git is already the newest version (1:2.20.1-2+deb10u3). ffmpeg is already the newest version (7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1+rpt2). python3-pip is already the newest version (18.1-5+rpt1). The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: python-colorzero Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Setting up SPI SPI already enabled Existing Install Found - Updating Repo remote: Enumerating objects: 33, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (33/33), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (21/21), done. remote: Total 33 (delta 14), reused 30 (delta 12), pack-reused 0 Unpacking objects: 100% (33/33), done. From https://github.com/TomWhitwell/SlowMovie 3d47389..614a268 main -> origin/main D Videos/test.mp4 Already on 'main' Your branch is behind 'origin/main' by 10 commits, and can be fast-forwarded. (use "git pull" to update your local branch) Updating 3d47389..614a268 Fast-forward Install/install.sh | 2 +- Install/requirements.txt | 8 ++++---- README.md | 3 ++- 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://www.piwheels.org/simple Requirement already up-to-date: ffmpeg-python==0.2.0 in /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages (from -r /home/pi/SlowMovie/Install/requirements.txt (line 1)) (0.2.0) Collecting Pillow==8.2.0 (from -r /home/pi/SlowMovie/Install/requirements.txt (line 2)) Downloading https://www.piwheels.org/simple/pillow/Pillow-8.2.0-cp37-cp37m-linux_armv7l.whl (1.3MB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 1.3MB 331kB/s Collecting ConfigArgParse==1.4.1 (from -r /home/pi/SlowMovie/Install/requirements.txt (line 3)) Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e8/a2/b6947a20b67c64b080b999badd231ff4785d1c709a66cfaf8d5e70811a14/ConfigArgParse-1.4.1-py3-none-any.whl Collecting waveshare-epd from git+https://github.com/waveshare/e-Paper.git#egg=waveshare-epd&subdirectory=RaspberryPi_JetsonNano/python (from -r /home/pi/SlowMovie/Install/requirements.txt (line 4)) Cloning https://github.com/waveshare/e-Paper.git to /tmp/pip-install-i757qwhk/waveshare-epd Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/tmp/pip-install-i757qwhk/waveshare-epd/RaspberryPi_JetsonNano/python/setup.py", line 17, in install_requires=dependencies, File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/setuptools/init.py", line 152, in setup _install_setup_requires(attrs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/setuptools/init.py", line 142, in _install_setup_requires dist = MinimalDistribution(attrs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/setuptools/init.py", line 134, in init distutils.core.Distribution.init(self, filtered) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 453, in init for ep in pkg_resources.iter_entry_points('distutils.setup_keywords'): AttributeError: module 'pkg_resources' has no attribute 'iter_entry_points'

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Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-i757qwhk/waveshare-epd/RaspberryPi_JetsonNano/python SlowMovie install/update complete. To test, run 'python3 /home/pi/SlowMovie/slowmovie.py'

Platform Information Pi 4B with 7.5" Waveshare V2

[robweber]

Are you sure it might not be due to #81 ? Only reason I ask is that when looking up that error it's often associated with not having an updated setuptools lib. We removed the update to setuptools in that PR, as well as moving all installed libs to a local user directory instead of the global python dir. Try manually running pip3 install setuptools -U (no sudo) and then the install script again.

[tkameroski]

Got the same error after running pip3 install setuptools -U then the install script. I will wait until I get a problem or want to update again then reinstall from scratch.

[robweber]

Finally had time to try this again today on my system (not a clean install though). I removed all waveshare python files and ran bash <(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TomWhitwell/SlowMovie/main/Install/install.sh) per the README instructions. Unfortunately I didn't get any of the same errors you did. All libraries downloaded and installed as expected - including the Waveshare one. Running tests with slowmovie.py all worked.

I would suggest doing some web searches for that error AttributeError: module 'pkg_resources' has no attribute 'iter_entry_points'; it seems like a pretty common Python error when your build system isn't setup properly.

[tkameroski]

If no one else experienced this issue I am going to close it. Must have been something atypical with my install or update.