Could not build the egg.

[Waseem-farooqui]

I am configuring Glastopf on Ubuntu 14.04 when I run sudo python setup.py install I got this error

   Extracting in /tmp/tmpFxAyFZ
   Now working in /tmp/tmpFxAyFZ/distribute-0.6.35
     Building a Distribute egg in /opt/glastopf
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 248, in <module>
    scripts = scripts,
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 111, in setup
    _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
  File "/tmp/tmpFxAyFZ/distribute-0.6.35/setuptools/dist.py", line 225, in __init__
    _Distribution.__init__(self,attrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 287, in __init__
    self.finalize_options()
  File "/tmp/tmpFxAyFZ/distribute-0.6.35/setuptools/dist.py", line 257, in finalize_options
    ep.require(installer=self.fetch_build_egg)
  File "/tmp/tmpFxAyFZ/distribute-0.6.35/pkg_resources.py", line 2027, in require
    working_set.resolve(self.dist.requires(self.extras),env,installer))
  File "/tmp/tmpFxAyFZ/distribute-0.6.35/pkg_resources.py", line 2237, in requires
    dm = self._dep_map
  File "/tmp/tmpFxAyFZ/distribute-0.6.35/pkg_resources.py", line 2466, in _dep_map
    self.__dep_map = self._compute_dependencies()
  File "/tmp/tmpFxAyFZ/distribute-0.6.35/pkg_resources.py", line 2499, in _compute_dependencies
    common = frozenset(reqs_for_extra(None))
  File "/tmp/tmpFxAyFZ/distribute-0.6.35/pkg_resources.py", line 2496, in reqs_for_extra
    if req.marker_fn(override={'extra':extra}):
  File "/tmp/tmpFxAyFZ/distribute-0.6.35/_markerlib/markers.py", line 109, in marker_fn
    return eval(compiled_marker, environment)
  File "<environment marker>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'sys_platform' is not defined
/opt/glastopf/distribute-0.6.35-py2.7.egg
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 2, in <module>
    use_setuptools()
  File "/opt/glastopf/distribute_setup.py", line 152, in use_setuptools
    return _do_download(version, download_base, to_dir, download_delay)
  File "/opt/glastopf/distribute_setup.py", line 132, in _do_download
    _build_egg(egg, tarball, to_dir)
  File "/opt/glastopf/distribute_setup.py", line 123, in _build_egg
    raise IOError('Could not build the egg.')
IOError: Could not build the egg.

[glaslos]

Hey @Waseem-farooqui Please check out the solution from this issue #200

[Waseem-farooqui]

Thanks @glaslos