Can't install ReText on Ubuntu 22.04

[JAQuent]

I am using Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS and I am unable to install ReText on my laptop. Please let me know if you need any further information. I am using ReText on my other machines and I'd really love to have it on my laptop as well.

python3 --version Python 3.10.12

and get the following error: pip3 --default-timeout=1000 install ReText

Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting ReText
  Using cached ReText-8.0.2.tar.gz (546 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [6 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
        File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
        File "/tmp/pip-install-2_vwr3bj/retext_4f1521b52f21468eafbfc511c8217061/setup.py", line 24, in <module>
          from setuptools.command.build import build
      ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools.command.build'
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.

[mitya57]

Thank you for the bug report!

It looks like in f1482116638b1d9d3e3ce41d602e1ef72f1a39cb, I started using functionality that is only available in setuptools ≥ 62.4.0. But Ubuntu 22.04 has setuptools 59.6.0.

You can try to run this command:

pip3 install --upgrade setuptools pip packaging

and then try to install ReText again.

Or you can install ReText==8.0.1, the previous release which does not have this problem. Or install retext from Ubuntu packages.

I will add the necessary metadata in the next release.