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bastibe / SoundCard

A Pure-Python Real-Time Audio Library
https://soundcard.readthedocs.io
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Pip install fails on Pi #107

Closed dkumor closed 4 years ago

dkumor commented 4 years ago

I am maintaining a library that depends on soundcard for audio. Pip installs have started failing for users on the Raspberry Pi (https://github.com/dkumor/rtcbot/issues/16). The error is as follows:

Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: 403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://www.piwheels.org/simple/soundcard/

It appears that piwheels no longer hosts wheels of the library for the RasPi - is this something that can be fixed?

bastibe commented 4 years ago

Honestly, I always thought it a bit dodgy that the Raspberry Pi is downloading from piwheels instead of PyPI. SoundCard is a pure-python module that works on the Raspberry Pi without modification, so there is no need for the piwheels proxy. You can manually download the wheel from PyPI, and install it using pip install file-from-pypi.whl.

According to their website, SoundCard should be up and running, however: https://www.piwheels.org/project/SoundCard/

dkumor commented 4 years ago

I see, I assumed that it was some setting that needed to be set by project maintainers! I'll use this solution for the time-being, thanks!

dkumor commented 4 years ago

Oh, actually, I found the problem! While pypi isn't case sensitive, piwheels apparently recently changed to have case-sensitive names, so pip install soundcard fails, but pip install SoundCard succeeds!

bastibe commented 4 years ago

That is terribly annoying. Thank you for finding that out!

dkumor commented 4 years ago

I spoke too soon. The issue is case-sensitivity, but it is on piwheel's side. I am opening an upstream issue.