Error during install from Pypi

[jfmoulin]

On linux, under python 3.6.7, I could not install via pip, see trace below:

collecting gr
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/95/4b/37577043a27b692178eaf9166963f30d9abfe0b2a4a82f43998670fb5f2f/gr-1.7.1.tar.gz (89kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 92kB 563kB/s 
Requirement already satisfied: numpy>=1.6 in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (from gr) (1.14.5)
Installing collected packages: gr
  Running setup.py install for gr ... error
    Complete output from command /usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-s0mk28t5/gr/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-record-g22xq_n6/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
    running install
    running build
    running build_py
    creating build
    creating build/lib
    creating build/lib/gr
    copying gr/runtime_helper.py -> build/lib/gr
    copying gr/_version.py -> build/lib/gr
    copying gr/__init__.py -> build/lib/gr
    creating build/lib/gr3
    copying gr3/__init__.py -> build/lib/gr3
    creating build/lib/qtgr
    copying qtgr/backend.py -> build/lib/qtgr
    copying qtgr/__init__.py -> build/lib/qtgr
    creating build/lib/gr/matplotlib
    copying gr/matplotlib/backend_gr.py -> build/lib/gr/matplotlib
    copying gr/matplotlib/__init__.py -> build/lib/gr/matplotlib
    creating build/lib/gr/pygr
    copying gr/pygr/helper.py -> build/lib/gr/pygr
    copying gr/pygr/mlab.py -> build/lib/gr/pygr
    copying gr/pygr/base.py -> build/lib/gr/pygr
    copying gr/pygr/__init__.py -> build/lib/gr/pygr
    creating build/lib/qtgr/events
    copying qtgr/events/mouse.py -> build/lib/qtgr/events
    copying qtgr/events/gestures.py -> build/lib/qtgr/events
    copying qtgr/events/base.py -> build/lib/qtgr/events
    copying qtgr/events/__init__.py -> build/lib/qtgr/events
    running egg_info
    writing gr.egg-info/PKG-INFO
    writing dependency_links to gr.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
    writing requirements to gr.egg-info/requires.txt
    writing top-level names to gr.egg-info/top_level.txt
    reading manifest file 'gr.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
    reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
    warning: no previously-included files matching '__pycache__' found anywhere in distribution
    warning: no previously-included files matching '*.db' found anywhere in distribution
    writing manifest file 'gr.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
    error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/etc/upstream-release'

    ----------------------------------------
Command "/usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-s0mk28t5/gr/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-record-g22xq_n6/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-s0mk28t5/gr/

[danielkaiser]

Hello jfmoulin, there was an issue in the setup.py script on systems that have a /etc/upstream-release directory like Linux Mint (and probably other Ubuntu based distributions). It should be fixed in python-gr release 1.7.2 that is now available on PyPI.

[danielkaiser]

Hello jfmoulin, have you already tried installing the new version and if so, did this resolve the problem?