Unable to install on any debian based Linux (PopOS, MXLinux,..)

[onsosb]

There are issues meeting the requirements, any help is truly appreciated. It seems of the the required packages are out of date and stops the build process. Example : scipy-0.10.1

Running from scipy source directory.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/owl/Downloads/scipy-0.10.1/setup.py", line 196, in <module>
    setup_package()
  File "/home/owl/Downloads/scipy-0.10.1/setup.py", line 176, in setup_package
    setup(
  File "/home/owl/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/numpy/distutils/core.py", line 135, in setup
    config = configuration()
  File "/home/owl/Downloads/scipy-0.10.1/setup.py", line 138, in configuration
    config.add_subpackage('scipy')
  File "/home/owl/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 1050, in add_subpackage
    config_list = self.get_subpackage(subpackage_name, subpackage_path,
  File "/home/owl/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 1016, in get_subpackage
    config = self._get_configuration_from_setup_py(
  File "/home/owl/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 958, in _get_configuration_from_setup_py
    config = setup_module.configuration(*args)
  File "scipy/setup.py", line 4, in configuration
    config = Configuration('scipy',parent_package,top_path)
  File "/home/owl/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 807, in __init__
    raise ValueError("%r is not a directory" % (package_path,))
ValueError: 'build/py3k/scipy' is not a directory

[StrikeNP]

I'm also having this issue on a fresh install of Mint

[yatesdr]

Go in the requirements.txt file and remove the specific versions for everything. It's all messed up when they froze the versions for whatever reason.

Just had the same issue with a Debian install, but got it to install by un-freezing the specific versions in Debian 11, and making a fresh venv to put it in.

I assume the scipi==0.10.1 is intended to be 1.10.1, because 0.10.1 only runs on python2, but just removing the freeze worked for me.

[StrikeNP]

Can confirm that fix worked for me, I also switched to python 3.8 which resolved some error regauring wheel.

[yatesdr]

The issues I had with wheel were solved on 3.9 and 3.10 by updating pip. python3.x -mpip install --upgrade pip

I think there's something going on with the wheel package formats, seems to be a common at the moment with packages using an older format.