can't install it using the pip3 command

[lomorster]

When ever I try to install it it gives me the error it couldnt install the dbus-python package Does anyone know how to solve this?(it doesnt work without the package) OS : Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Python Version : 3.10.6 pip version : 22.0.2 here is the error reported from console Building wheels for collected packages: dbus-python Building wheel for dbus-python (setup.py) ... error error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× python setup.py bdist_wheel did not run successfully. │ exit code: 1 ╰─> [162 lines of output] running bdist_wheel running build creating /tmp/pip-install-8mirhvke/dbus-python_caa408028e714b5ca40f9ca98c92d913/build creating /tmp/pip-install-8mirhvke/dbus-python_caa408028e714b5ca40f9ca98c92d913/build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.10 checking whether make supports nested variables... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking minix/config.h usability... no checking minix/config.h presence... no checking for minix/config.h... no checking whether it is safe to define EXTENSIONS... yes checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether make supports the include directive... yes (GNU style) checking whether UID '1000' is supported by ustar format... yes checking whether GID '1000' is supported by ustar format... yes checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking for native Windows host... no checking how to print strings... printf checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed checking for fgrep... /usr/bin/grep -F checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm checking whether ln -s works... yes checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864 checking how to convert x86_64-pc-linux-gnu file names to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu format... func_convert_file_noop checking how to convert x86_64-pc-linux-gnu file names to toolchain format... func_convert_file_noop checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for objdump... objdump checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all checking for dlltool... no checking how to associate runtime and link libraries... printf %s\n checking for ar... ar checking for archiver @FILE support... @ checking for strip... strip checking for ranlib... ranlib checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok checking for sysroot... no checking for a working dd... /usr/bin/dd checking how to truncate binary pipes... /usr/bin/dd bs=4096 count=1 checking for mt... mt checking if mt is a manifest tool... no checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for objdir... .libs checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... no checking for inline... inline checking for gawk... (cached) mawk checking for python... /usr/bin/python3 checking for a version of Python >= '2.1.0'... yes checking for a version of Python >= '2.7'... yes checking for the distutils Python package... yes checking for Python include path... :1: DeprecationWarning: The distutils package is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12. Use setuptools or check PEP 632 for potential alternatives :1: DeprecationWarning: The distutils.sysconfig module is deprecated, use sysconfig instead :1: DeprecationWarning: The distutils package is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12. Use setuptools or check PEP 632 for potential alternatives :1: DeprecationWarning: The distutils.sysconfig module is deprecated, use sysconfig instead -I/usr/include/python3.10 checking for Python library path... :4: DeprecationWarning: The distutils package is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12. Use setuptools or check PEP 632 for potential alternatives :4: DeprecationWarning: The distutils.sysconfig module is deprecated, use sysconfig instead :3: DeprecationWarning: The distutils package is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12. Use setuptools or check PEP 632 for potential alternatives :3: DeprecationWarning: The distutils.sysconfig module is deprecated, use sysconfig instead :2: DeprecationWarning: The distutils package is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12. Use setuptools or check PEP 632 for potential alternatives :2: DeprecationWarning: The distutils.sysconfig module is deprecated, use sysconfig instead -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lpython3.10 checking for Python site-packages path... :1: DeprecationWarning: The distutils package is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12. Use setuptools or check PEP 632 for potential alternatives :1: DeprecationWarning: The distutils.sysconfig module is deprecated, use sysconfig instead /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages checking python extra libraries... :1: DeprecationWarning: The distutils package is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12. Use setuptools or check PEP 632 for potential alternatives :1: DeprecationWarning: The distutils.sysconfig module is deprecated, use sysconfig instead -lcrypt -ldl -lm -lm checking python extra linking flags... :1: DeprecationWarning: The distutils package is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12. Use setuptools or check PEP 632 for potential alternatives :1: DeprecationWarning: The distutils.sysconfig module is deprecated, use sysconfig instead -Xlinker -export-dynamic -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions checking consistency of all components of python development environment... yes checking for python version... 3.1 checking for python platform... linux checking for python script directory... ${prefix}/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages checking for python extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages :1: DeprecationWarning: The distutils package is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12. Use setuptools or check PEP 632 for potential alternatives checking python3 module: sphinx... no checking python3 module: sphinx_rtd_theme... no checking for dbus-run-session... /usr/bin/dbus-run-session checking for pkg-config... no checking for DBUS... no configure: error: in `/tmp/pip-install-8mirhvke/dbus-python_caa408028e714b5ca40f9ca98c92d913/build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.10': configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too old. Make sure it is in your PATH or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full path to pkg-config.

  Alternatively, you may set the environment variables DBUS_CFLAGS
  and DBUS_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
  See the pkg-config man page for more details.
  
  To get pkg-config, see <http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/>.
  See `config.log' for more details
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
    File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
    File "/tmp/pip-install-8mirhvke/dbus-python_caa408028e714b5ca40f9ca98c92d913/setup.py", line 85, in <module>
      setup(
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 153, in setup
      return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.10/distutils/core.py", line 148, in setup
      dist.run_commands()
    File "/usr/lib/python3.10/distutils/dist.py", line 966, in run_commands
      self.run_command(cmd)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.10/distutils/dist.py", line 985, in run_command
      cmd_obj.run()
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/wheel/bdist_wheel.py", line 299, in run
      self.run_command('build')
    File "/usr/lib/python3.10/distutils/cmd.py", line 313, in run_command
      self.distribution.run_command(command)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.10/distutils/dist.py", line 985, in run_command
      cmd_obj.run()
    File "/tmp/pip-install-8mirhvke/dbus-python_caa408028e714b5ca40f9ca98c92d913/setup.py", line 56, in run
      subprocess.check_call([
    File "/usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 369, in check_call
      raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
  subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/tmp/pip-install-8mirhvke/dbus-python_caa408028e714b5ca40f9ca98c92d913/configure', '--disable-maintainer-mode', 'PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3', '--prefix=/tmp/pip-install-8mirhvke/dbus-python_caa408028e714b5ca40f9ca98c92d913/build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.10/prefix']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
  [end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip. ERROR: Failed building wheel for dbus-python Running setup.py clean for dbus-python Failed to build dbus-python Installing collected packages: dbus-python, python-xlib, python-engineio, pycparser, psutil, MarkupSafe, itsdangerous, greenlet, dnspython, blessed, bidict, Werkzeug, python-socketio, pynput, Jinja2, eventlet, cffi, Flask, cryptography, Flask-SocketIO, nxbt Running setup.py install for dbus-python ... error error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Running setup.py install for dbus-python did not run successfully. │ exit code: 1 ╰─> [166 lines of output] running install /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/command/install.py:34: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: setup.py install is deprecated. Use build and pip and other standards-based tools. warnings.warn( running build creating /tmp/pip-install-8mirhvke/dbus-python_caa408028e714b5ca40f9ca98c92d913/build creating /tmp/pip-install-8mirhvke/dbus-python_caa408028e714b5ca40f9ca98c92d913/build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.10 checking whether make supports nested variables... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking minix/config.h usability... no checking minix/config.h presence... no checking for minix/config.h... no checking whether it is safe to define EXTENSIONS... yes checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether make supports the include directive... yes (GNU style) checking whether UID '1000' is supported by ustar format... yes checking whether GID '1000' is supported by ustar format... yes checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking for native Windows host... no checking how to print strings... printf checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed checking for fgrep... /usr/bin/grep -F checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm checking whether ln -s works... yes checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864 checking how to convert x86_64-pc-linux-gnu file names to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu format... func_convert_file_noop checking how to convert x86_64-pc-linux-gnu file names to toolchain format... func_convert_file_noop checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for objdump... objdump checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all checking for dlltool... no checking how to associate runtime and link libraries... printf %s\n checking for ar... ar checking for archiver @FILE support... @ checking for strip... strip checking for ranlib... ranlib checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok checking for sysroot... no checking for a working dd... /usr/bin/dd checking how to truncate binary pipes... /usr/bin/dd bs=4096 count=1 checking for mt... mt checking if mt is a manifest tool... no checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for objdir... .libs checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... no checking for inline... inline checking for gawk... (cached) mawk checking for python... /usr/bin/python3 checking for a version of Python >= '2.1.0'... yes checking for a version of Python >= '2.7'... yes checking for the distutils Python package... yes checking for Python include path... :1: DeprecationWarning: The distutils package is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12. Use setuptools or check PEP 632 for potential alternatives :1: DeprecationWarning: The distutils.sysconfig module is deprecated, use sysconfig instead :1: DeprecationWarning: The distutils package is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12. Use setuptools or check PEP 632 for potential alternatives :1: DeprecationWarning: The distutils.sysconfig module is deprecated, use sysconfig instead -I/usr/include/python3.10 checking for Python library path... :4: DeprecationWarning: The distutils package is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12. Use setuptools or check PEP 632 for potential alternatives :4: DeprecationWarning: The distutils.sysconfig module is deprecated, use sysconfig instead :3: DeprecationWarning: The distutils package is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12. Use setuptools or check PEP 632 for potential alternatives :3: DeprecationWarning: The distutils.sysconfig module is deprecated, use sysconfig instead :2: DeprecationWarning: The distutils package is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12. Use setuptools or check PEP 632 for potential alternatives :2: DeprecationWarning: The distutils.sysconfig module is deprecated, use sysconfig instead -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lpython3.10 checking for Python site-packages path... :1: DeprecationWarning: The distutils package is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12. Use setuptools or check PEP 632 for potential alternatives :1: DeprecationWarning: The distutils.sysconfig module is deprecated, use sysconfig instead /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages checking python extra libraries... :1: DeprecationWarning: The distutils package is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12. Use setuptools or check PEP 632 for potential alternatives :1: DeprecationWarning: The distutils.sysconfig module is deprecated, use sysconfig instead -lcrypt -ldl -lm -lm checking python extra linking flags... :1: DeprecationWarning: The distutils package is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12. Use setuptools or check PEP 632 for potential alternatives :1: DeprecationWarning: The distutils.sysconfig module is deprecated, use sysconfig instead -Xlinker -export-dynamic -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions checking consistency of all components of python development environment... yes checking for python version... 3.1 checking for python platform... linux checking for python script directory... ${prefix}/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages checking for python extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages :1: DeprecationWarning: The distutils package is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12. Use setuptools or check PEP 632 for potential alternatives checking python3 module: sphinx... no checking python3 module: sphinx_rtd_theme... no checking for dbus-run-session... /usr/bin/dbus-run-session checking for pkg-config... no checking for DBUS... no configure: error: in `/tmp/pip-install-8mirhvke/dbus-python_caa408028e714b5ca40f9ca98c92d913/build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.10': configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too old. Make sure it is in your PATH or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full path to pkg-config.

  Alternatively, you may set the environment variables DBUS_CFLAGS
  and DBUS_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
  See the pkg-config man page for more details.
  
  To get pkg-config, see <http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/>.
  See `config.log' for more details
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
    File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
    File "/tmp/pip-install-8mirhvke/dbus-python_caa408028e714b5ca40f9ca98c92d913/setup.py", line 85, in <module>
      setup(
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 153, in setup
      return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.10/distutils/core.py", line 148, in setup
      dist.run_commands()
    File "/usr/lib/python3.10/distutils/dist.py", line 966, in run_commands
      self.run_command(cmd)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.10/distutils/dist.py", line 985, in run_command
      cmd_obj.run()
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/command/install.py", line 68, in run
      return orig.install.run(self)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.10/distutils/command/install.py", line 619, in run
      self.run_command('build')
    File "/usr/lib/python3.10/distutils/cmd.py", line 313, in run_command
      self.distribution.run_command(command)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.10/distutils/dist.py", line 985, in run_command
      cmd_obj.run()
    File "/tmp/pip-install-8mirhvke/dbus-python_caa408028e714b5ca40f9ca98c92d913/setup.py", line 56, in run
      subprocess.check_call([
    File "/usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 369, in check_call
      raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
  subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/tmp/pip-install-8mirhvke/dbus-python_caa408028e714b5ca40f9ca98c92d913/configure', '--disable-maintainer-mode', 'PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3', '--prefix=/tmp/pip-install-8mirhvke/dbus-python_caa408028e714b5ca40f9ca98c92d913/build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.10/prefix']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
  [end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip. error: legacy-install-failure

× Encountered error while trying to install package. ╰─> dbus-python

[Bartschey]

I had the same issue, let me know if you have any luck

[cranone]

configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too old. Make sure it

sudo apt-get install pkg-config its work for me and maybe you will have some other error like

configure: error: Package requirements (dbus-1 >= 1.0) were not met:

do this: sudo apt-get install libdbus-glib-1-dev

[YiZhiRikka]

configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too old. Make sure it

sudo apt-get install pkg-config its work for me and maybe you will have some other error like

configure: error: Package requirements (dbus-1 >= 1.0) were not met:

do this: sudo apt-get install libdbus-glib-1-dev

It's useful! Thanks!