No matching distribution found for vorta

[deuzene]

pip install vorta returns:

Collecting vorta Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement vorta (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for vorta

[m3nu]

Which OS is this? Currently it supports any Posix and macOS, as specified here.

Borg (the tool that Vorta uses to do the work) doesn't support Windows, so we can't support it either.

An alternative on Windows 10 would be to install on the Linux subsystem, which is an Ubuntu. I didn't test it, but it could work.

The GUI would also work on Windows without issues. I've seen screenshots of it.

[deuzene]

Oh sorry! I tried on Fedora 28, where borgbackup went from Fedora repo. Ask me for more details. Thanks.

[m3nu]

Just tried this on a Fedora 28 VPS. No issues. Command:

$ pip3 install --user vorta

(the --user is optional)

[deuzene]

Ok it's works with pip3. Thank you.

[m3nu]

I'll mention Python 3 in the README, since it wasn't clear enough. The pip error message isn't helpful either.

Thanks for testing and reporting. If you notice any other issue, just open a new issue here.

[MatejKovacic]

I am trying to install Vorta on Ubuntu 16.04 (yes, it is quite old): sudo -H pip3 install vorta

and got this error:

Collecting vorta
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement vorta (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for vorta

[ThomasWaldmann]

@MatejKovacic do you have python 3.6? vorta does not work with older versions.

(in such cases, a fat vorta binary for linux that includes python would be nice :)

[m3nu]

Reminds me to provide some pre-built binaries for Ubuntu and others. #76

[MatejKovacic]

That would be great.

Meanwhile, I installed Python 3.6, linked it as default Python3, installed newer version of pip3... and installation did not work. So I decided to completely replace Python 3.5 with 3.6... and the whole system just went down... :-)

Now I am doing dist-upgrade. If successfull, vorta installing problems will vanish too. :)

[ThomasWaldmann]

@MatejKovacic just as a note for "next time":

if you install some python additionally to the system python, put it into /usr/local/bin and do not name it python, python2 or python3, but keep it as python3.6 only. alternatively, use pyenv.

That way, you won't have interference with system python.

[MatejKovacic]

Okeeey, after upgrade there is another problem:

sudo -H pip3 install vorta

Collecting vorta
Installing collected packages: vorta
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pip/_internal/cli/base_command.py", line 179, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pip/_internal/commands/install.py", line 393, in run
    use_user_site=options.use_user_site,
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pip/_internal/req/__init__.py", line 57, in install_given_reqs
    **kwargs
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pip/_internal/req/req_install.py", line 913, in install
    use_user_site=use_user_site, pycompile=pycompile,
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pip/_internal/req/req_install.py", line 445, in move_wheel_files
    warn_script_location=warn_script_location,
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pip/_internal/wheel.py", line 428, in move_wheel_files
    assert info_dir, "%s .dist-info directory not found" % req
AssertionError: vorta .dist-info directory not found

[MatejKovacic]

pip3 -V pip 9.0.1 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (python 3.6)

python3 -V Python 3.6.7

cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS"

[ThomasWaldmann]

Try:

• clearing pip cache
• pip3 install --no-use-wheel vorta

[MatejKovacic]

rm -r ~/.cache/pip
sudo -H pip3 install vorta --no-binary :all:

...
Collecting pyqt5 (from vorta)
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pyqt5 (from vorta) (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for pyqt5 (from vorta)

[m3nu]

Is this an ARM or i386 system by any chance? PyQT may not have a pre-compiled package for that arch.

[MatejKovacic]

I tried sudo apt install python3-pyqt5, but with no success. However, I found out that PyQt5 is available only with pre-built binaries (wheels); there are no sources available. So I run: sudo -H pip3 install pyqt5.

After that: Command "/usr/bin/python3 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pip install --ignore-installed --no-user --prefix /tmp/pip-build-env-0bauw_v8/overlay --no-warn-script-location --no-binary :all: --only-binary :none: -i https://pypi.org/simple -- setuptools wheel "cffi>=1.1; python_implementation != 'PyPy'"" failed with error code 1 in None

[m3nu]

From what I remember, you'll need a rather old PyQt version on an old Ubuntu due to some dependency. I had an issue like this with Travis a while back. That's why you can't install it.

If you're on an exotic architecture there may not be a binary package at all. So the only option will be to compile it yourself. (both, Qt and PyQt)

[ThomasWaldmann]

@m3nu he said he upgraded to 18.04, that is relatively new and latest available version with long-term support (next one will be 20.04 next year).

[ThomasWaldmann]

@MatejKovacic latest python3 in 18.04 is 3.6.5, why do you have 3.6.7 (maybe there is still interference of the python you installed manually)?

https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/python3

[m3nu]

Right. I over-read the update part. I think he did a dist-upgrade and the old stuff (problems) are still there. What I'd look into next:

• Why did $ apt install python3-pyqt5 fail?
• Are the usual dev-packages installed (build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev). This may make pip3 install pyqt5 fail. Checking their docs may help.

[ThomasWaldmann]

https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic-updates/python3 < 3.6.7 from there, so it seems ok, ignore my last comment.

[MrDavidMitchell]

Sorry I didn't originally see the requirement on minimum version of python. For newbies such as myself, here's a nice guide to upgrading python. https://tecadmin.net/install-python-3-7-on-ubuntu-linuxmint/