No files/directories in */pip-egg-info (from PKG-INFO)

[Nelyah]

Not sure where the error comes from. I am able to install other packages with pipsi and I am also able to install this package in particular (prody) with pip install --user prody

$ pipsi install prody
Already using interpreter /home/chloe/.local/venvs/pipsi/bin/python
Using base prefix '/usr'
New python executable in /home/chloe/.local/venvs/prody/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...done.
Collecting prody
  Using cached ProDy-1.9.4.tar.gz
No files/directories in /tmp/pip-build-i61j2ml8/prody/pip-egg-info (from PKG-INFO)
Failed to pip install.  Aborting.

I search through their github repo and found that they have the following lines in their .gitignore:

 *.egg
 ´.egg-info

I also tried to install prody with the following command pipsi install git+https://github.com/prody/ProDy/#egg=prody but I get the same error as above.

Any insight would be appreciated!

[bunmalik]

Hello, please did you get a solution to your. Please kindly shaare. I am also facing the same challenge when trying to install sealang and seasnake:

I encountered this when installing seasnake: "seasnake 0.0.0 requires sealang, which is not installed".

So when trying to install sealang, I got this error too: "No files/directories in /tmp/pip-install-YmS7t1/sealang/pip-egg-info (from PKG-INFO)"

[Nelyah]

Hi, Sadly no, I simply ended up using the pip install --user prody version

[bunmalik]

Thanks @Nelyah It still hasnt work for me.

[rkantos]

I was able to install seasnake (per user) after installing seasnake manually and also following their llvm env install instructions: https://github.com/pybee/sealang

[marimeireles]

Yeah, I ran in to the same problem in my Fedora 29, but not on my MacOS. So maybe is just something related to Linux? It's worth it to give it a try if you can run it in a different OS.