Developer install fails for version 4.2.2 on Arch Linux

[mariaa144]

I'm using Python 3.10.4 and I get the following error when trying to install dependencies.

$ python3 -m pip install --user -e .
Obtaining file:///home/maria/Workspace/electrum
Requirement already satisfied: qrcode in /home/maria/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from Electrum==4.3.0a0) (7.3.1)
Requirement already satisfied: protobuf<4,>=3.12 in /home/maria/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from Electrum==4.3.0a0) (3.20.1)
Requirement already satisfied: qdarkstyle>=2.7 in /home/maria/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from Electrum==4.3.0a0) (3.1)
Requirement already satisfied: aiorpcx<0.23,>=0.22.0 in /home/maria/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from Electrum==4.3.0a0) (0.22.1)
Requirement already satisfied: aiohttp<4.0.0,>=3.3.0 in /home/maria/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from Electrum==4.3.0a0) (3.8.1)
Requirement already satisfied: aiohttp_socks>=0.3 in /home/maria/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from Electrum==4.3.0a0) (0.7.1)
Requirement already satisfied: certifi in /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from Electrum==4.3.0a0) (2021.10.8)
Requirement already satisfied: bitstring in /home/maria/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from Electrum==4.3.0a0) (3.1.9)
Requirement already satisfied: attrs>=19.2.0 in /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from Electrum==4.3.0a0) (21.4.0)
Requirement already satisfied: dnspython>=2.0 in /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from Electrum==4.3.0a0) (2.2.1)
Requirement already satisfied: charset-normalizer<3.0,>=2.0 in /home/maria/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from aiohttp<4.0.0,>=3.3.0->Electrum==4.3.0a0) (2.0.12)
Requirement already satisfied: multidict<7.0,>=4.5 in /home/maria/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from aiohttp<4.0.0,>=3.3.0->Electrum==4.3.0a0) (6.0.2)
Requirement already satisfied: async-timeout<5.0,>=4.0.0a3 in /home/maria/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from aiohttp<4.0.0,>=3.3.0->Electrum==4.3.0a0) (4.0.2)
Requirement already satisfied: yarl<2.0,>=1.0 in /home/maria/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from aiohttp<4.0.0,>=3.3.0->Electrum==4.3.0a0) (1.7.2)
Requirement already satisfied: frozenlist>=1.1.1 in /home/maria/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from aiohttp<4.0.0,>=3.3.0->Electrum==4.3.0a0) (1.3.0)
Requirement already satisfied: aiosignal>=1.1.2 in /home/maria/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from aiohttp<4.0.0,>=3.3.0->Electrum==4.3.0a0) (1.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: python-socks[asyncio]<3.0.0,>=2.0.0 in /home/maria/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from aiohttp_socks>=0.3->Electrum==4.3.0a0) (2.0.3)
Requirement already satisfied: qtpy>=1.9 in /home/maria/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from qdarkstyle>=2.7->Electrum==4.3.0a0) (2.1.0)
Requirement already satisfied: packaging in /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from qtpy>=1.9->qdarkstyle>=2.7->Electrum==4.3.0a0) (21.3)
Requirement already satisfied: idna>=2.0 in /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from yarl<2.0,>=1.0->aiohttp<4.0.0,>=3.3.0->Electrum==4.3.0a0) (3.3)
Requirement already satisfied: pyparsing!=3.0.5,>=2.0.2 in /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from packaging->qtpy>=1.9->qdarkstyle>=2.7->Electrum==4.3.0a0) (3.0.9)
Installing collected packages: Electrum
  Running setup.py develop for Electrum
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /usr/bin/python3 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/home/maria/Workspace/electrum/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/home/maria/Workspace/electrum/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' develop --no-deps --user --prefix=
         cwd: /home/maria/Workspace/electrum/
    Complete output (28 lines):
    running develop
    /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py:157: EasyInstallDeprecationWarning: easy_install command is deprecated. Use build and pip and other standards-based tools.
      warnings.warn(
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/home/maria/Workspace/electrum/setup.py", line 57, in <module>
        setup(
      File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 155, in setup
        return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
      File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/core.py", line 148, in setup
        return run_commands(dist)
      File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/core.py", line 163, in run_commands
        dist.run_commands()
      File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 967, in run_commands
        self.run_command(cmd)
      File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 985, in run_command
        cmd_obj.ensure_finalized()
      File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/cmd.py", line 107, in ensure_finalized
        self.finalize_options()
      File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/command/develop.py", line 52, in finalize_options
        easy_install.finalize_options(self)
      File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 276, in finalize_options
        self._fix_install_dir_for_user_site()
      File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 382, in _fix_install_dir_for_user_site
        self.create_home_path()
      File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1338, in create_home_path
        if path.startswith(home) and not os.path.isdir(path):
    AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'startswith'
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /usr/bin/python3 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/home/maria/Workspace/electrum/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/home/maria/Workspace/electrum/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' develop --no-deps --user --prefix= Check the logs for full command output.

[SomberNight]

Maybe there is something weird in your environment... what version of setuptools are you using?

[mariaa144]

This seems to be an issue with Arch Linux. If I add setuptools==61.3.1 to the requirements.txt then the install will work. However, the next time I try to install dependencies I'll get a different error referenced here: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/9348

I have to run pip uninstall setuptools to get pip working again like suggested in the issue I linked.

[mariaa144]

My setuptools version is 60.6.0 I think.

pacman -Ss python-setuptools
extra/python-setuptools 1:60.6.0-1 [installed]
    Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages

[SomberNight]

I have to run pip uninstall setuptools to get pip working again like suggested in the issue I linked.

So does installing Electrum work after that? i.e. can the issue be closed?

[mariaa144]

I'm not sure. Maybe there should be a setuptools version requirement. I can work around the problem until Arch Linux updates setuptools.

[accumulator]

Closing. Feel free to re-open if you think the problem is with Electrum.