install fail on debian buster

[ghost]

git clone https://github.com/phuhl/notify-send.py cd notify-send.py pip install .

give this error :

Processing /home/daru/Softs/notify-send.py Installing build dependencies ... done Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/pip-req-build-G20v2X/setup.py'

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Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-req-build-G20v2X/

[phuhl]

Hi, thanks for reporting.

Is this still relevant? There were some major changes made, some time ago, maybe they fixed this?

[ghost]

Hi , it works fine on linux mint 20 (based on ubuntu) after completing the install with : sudo apt install libgirepository1.0-dev

But for debian buster always an error : screenshot error

[phuhl]

So, stackoverflow says, you should install setup tools: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14426491/python-3-importerror-no-module-named-setuptools

Not sure if it has to be in the dependencies of this package (not an expert on python packages, tbh). Can you confirm that installing with setuptools installed works?

[bedax]

Hello, I am also getting the same error, with setuptools installed. I tried installing setuptools both with apt, and with pip, and the got the same result:

Processing /home/tom/downloads/notify-send.py
  Installing build dependencies ... done
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/usr/lib/python3.7/tokenize.py", line 447, in open
        buffer = _builtin_open(filename, 'rb')
    FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/pip-req-build-7k4060l1/setup.py'

[bedax]

Just found that this one requires python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip and then it works, see: https://stackoverflow.com/a/60354806

[phuhl]

Nice, thanks for the fix. I'll consider this as closed for now, if the issue reoccurs, feel free to reopen