2.4.0 release doesn't generate easy_path file

[najoshi]

Installing on ubuntu from source, doesn't generate the easy_path file. Then errors out when trying to find the synapseclient package.

[thomasyu888]

Hi @najoshi ,

Could you provide more information / stack trace?

[najoshi]

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/software/synapseclient/2.4.0/lssc0-linux/bin/synapse", line 33, in sys.exit(load_entry_point('synapseclient==2.4.0', 'console_scripts', 'synapse')()) File "/software/synapseclient/2.4.0/lssc0-linux/bin/synapse", line 22, in importlib_load_entry_point for entry_point in distribution(dist_name).entry_points File "/software/anaconda3/4.9.2/lssc0-linux/lib/python3.9/importlib/metadata.py", line 524, in distribution return Distribution.from_name(distribution_name) File "/software/anaconda3/4.9.2/lssc0-linux/lib/python3.9/importlib/metadata.py", line 187, in from_name raise PackageNotFoundError(name) importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError: synapseclient

[najoshi]

Once I added the easy-install.pth file, it worked just fine.

[najoshi]

or maybe it was the site.py file that I copied over from an older version

[thomasyu888]

Are you running pip install synapseclient？

[najoshi]

python setup.py install --prefix=<install dir>

[thomasyu888]

Closing this as this was tackled in later versions of the client.