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Fix pip dependency error manually on Arch Linux

Manually install appdirs and pyparsing module for pip

Posted by Xiping Hu on February 20, 2020

Today I tired to install cpupower-gui on my BlackArch Linux. I installed it via yay.

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yay -S cpupower-gui

And pip said:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/meson", line 6, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 80, in <module>
    import appdirs
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'appdirs'
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
Error making: cpupower-gui

After upgrading to BlackArch Linux, pip keeps failing.

I tried to install appdirs by invoking pip in this way:

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python -m pip install appdirs

But it told me that pyparsing is needed.

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 86, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/__main__.py", line 16, in <module>
    from pip._internal.main import main as _main  # isort:skip # noqa
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_internal/main.py", line 13, in <module>
    from pip._internal.cli.autocompletion import autocomplete
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/autocompletion.py", line 11, in <module>
    from pip._internal.cli.main_parser import create_main_parser
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/main_parser.py", line 7, in <module>
    from pip._internal.cli import cmdoptions
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/cmdoptions.py", line 28, in <module>
    from pip._internal.models.target_python import TargetPython
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_internal/models/target_python.py", line 4, in <module>
    from pip._internal.utils.misc import normalize_version_info
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_internal/utils/misc.py", line 19, in <module>
    from pip._vendor import pkg_resources
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 84, in <module>
    __import__('pip._vendor.packaging.requirements')
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/packaging/requirements.py", line 9, in <module>
    from pyparsing import stringStart, stringEnd, originalTextFor, ParseException
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyparsing'

So I tried to install pyparsing

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python -m pip install pyparsing

And failed. pyparsing is needed to install pyparsing.

What the f**k!

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 86, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/__main__.py", line 16, in <module>
    from pip._internal.main import main as _main  # isort:skip # noqa
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_internal/main.py", line 13, in <module>
    from pip._internal.cli.autocompletion import autocomplete
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/autocompletion.py", line 11, in <module>
    from pip._internal.cli.main_parser import create_main_parser
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/main_parser.py", line 7, in <module>
    from pip._internal.cli import cmdoptions
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/cmdoptions.py", line 28, in <module>
    from pip._internal.models.target_python import TargetPython
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_internal/models/target_python.py", line 4, in <module>
    from pip._internal.utils.misc import normalize_version_info
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_internal/utils/misc.py", line 19, in <module>
    from pip._vendor import pkg_resources
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 84, in <module>
    __import__('pip._vendor.packaging.requirements')
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/packaging/requirements.py", line 9, in <module>
    from pyparsing import stringStart, stringEnd, originalTextFor, ParseException
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyparsing'

I also tried pacman

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sudo pacman -Ss appdirs

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extra/python-appdirs 1.4.3-5 [installed]
    A small Python module for determining appropriate platform-specific dirs, e.g. a "user data dir".
extra/python2-appdirs 1.4.3-5 [installed]
    A small Python module for determining appropriate platform-specific dirs, e.g. a "user data dir".

And I tried to upgrade pip like someone on forum.

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pip install --upgrade pip

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sh: /opt/jython/bin//pip: bad interpreter: /build/jython/pkg/jython/opt/jython/bin/jython: no such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pip", line 6, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 80, in <module>
    import appdirs
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'appdirs'

I also tried to reinstall all python packages like another guy on forum.

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sudo pacman -Qqs python* > python.txt

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sudo pacman -S - < python.txt

But all of these solutions did not work for me. After all these operations, I ran

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yay -S cpupower-gui

again, and the same error appeared.

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/meson", line 6, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 80, in <module>
    import appdirs
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'appdirs'

Then I wanted to know if appdirs was really installed.

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ls /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/

It turned out that appdirs had not been installed. pacman cheated me.

I downloaded pyparsing from Pypi and started to install it manually.

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cd Downloads/
tar zxvf pyparsing-2.4.6.tar.gz
cd pyparsing-2.4.6/
sudo python setup.py install

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 5, in <module>
    from setuptools import setup
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 17, in <module>
    import setuptools.version
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/version.py", line 1, in <module>
    import pkg_resources
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 80, in <module>
    import appdirs
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'appdirs'
[hxp@hxp-arch pyparsing-2.4.6]$ sudo python setup.py install
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 5, in <module>
    from setuptools import setup
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 17, in <module>
    import setuptools.version
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/version.py", line 1, in <module>
    import pkg_resources
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 80, in <module>
    import appdirs
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'appdirs'

And install pyparsing required appdir

So I downloaded appdirs from Pypi

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cd ..
tar zxvf appdirs-1.4.3.tar.gz
cd appdirs-1.4.3/
sudo python setup.py install

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/usr/lib/python3.8/distutils/dist.py:274: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'test_suite'
  warnings.warn(msg)
/usr/lib/python3.8/distutils/dist.py:274: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'tests_require'
  warnings.warn(msg)
running install
running build
running build_py
running install_lib
copying build/lib/appdirs.py -> /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages
byte-compiling /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/appdirs.py to appdirs.cpython-38.pyc
running install_egg_info
Writing /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/appdirs-1.4.3-py3.8.egg-info

appdirs installed successfully. Install pyparing again.

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cd ..
cd pyparsing-2.4.6/
sudo python setup.py install

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 5, in <module>
    from setuptools import setup
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 19, in <module>
    from setuptools.dist import Distribution, Feature
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 30, in <module>
    import ordered_set
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ordered_set'

ordered_set was needed.

I tried to install ordered_set with pip

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sudo python -m pip install ordered_set

And I got

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ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyparsing'

Install orderes_set require pyparsing. So I needed to install pyparsing first. And install pyparsing requires ordered_set

What the hell it was ???

I also downloaded ordered_set from Pypi.

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cd ..
tar zxvf ordered-set-3.1.1.tar.gz
cd ordered-set-3.1.1/
sudo python setup.py install

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 1, in <module>
    from setuptools import setup
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 17, in <module>
    import setuptools.version
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/version.py", line 1, in <module>
    import pkg_resources
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 84, in <module>
    __import__('packaging.requirements')
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/packaging/requirements.py", line 9, in <module>
    from pyparsing import stringStart, stringEnd, originalTextFor, ParseException
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyparsing'

And tried pacman

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extra/python-pyparsing 2.4.6-1 [installed]
    General parsing module for Python
extra/python2-pyparsing 2.4.6-1 [installed]
    General parsing module for Python
community/python-dbus-signature-pyparsing 0.03-6
    A Parser for a D-Bus Signature

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pacman -Ss ordered-set

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extra/python-ordered-set 3.1.1-1 [installed]
    A MutableSet that remembers its order, so that every entry has an index
extra/python2-ordered-set 3.1.1-1 [installed]
    A MutableSet that remembers its order, so that every entry has an index

But no luck.

And then this idea came across:

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cd ..
cp ordered-set-3.1.1/ordered_set.py pyparsing-2.4.6
cd pyparsing-2.4.6/
sudo python setup.py install

And it works! pyparsing installed successfully!

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running install
running bdist_egg
running egg_info
writing pyparsing.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing dependency_links to pyparsing.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
writing top-level names to pyparsing.egg-info/top_level.txt
reading manifest file 'pyparsing.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
warning: no files found matching 'HowToUsePyparsing.rst'
warning: no files found matching 'pyparsingClassDiagram.*'
warning: no files found matching 'README.md'
warning: no files found matching 'modules.rst'
no previously-included directories found matching 'docs/_build/*'
writing manifest file 'pyparsing.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
installing library code to build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg
running install_lib
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib
copying pyparsing.py -> build/lib
creating build/bdist.linux-x86_64
creating build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg
copying build/lib/pyparsing.py -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg
byte-compiling build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pyparsing.py to pyparsing.cpython-38.pyc
creating build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying pyparsing.egg-info/PKG-INFO -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying pyparsing.egg-info/SOURCES.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying pyparsing.egg-info/dependency_links.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying pyparsing.egg-info/top_level.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents...
__pycache__.pyparsing.cpython-38: module MAY be using inspect.getinnerframes
creating dist
creating 'dist/pyparsing-2.4.6-py3.8.egg' and adding 'build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg' to it
removing 'build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg' (and everything under it)
Processing pyparsing-2.4.6-py3.8.egg
creating /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pyparsing-2.4.6-py3.8.egg
Extracting pyparsing-2.4.6-py3.8.egg to /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages
Adding pyparsing 2.4.6 to easy-install.pth file

Installed /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pyparsing-2.4.6-py3.8.egg
Processing dependencies for pyparsing==2.4.6
Finished processing dependencies for pyparsing==2.4.6

The next one was ordered-set

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cd ..
cd ordered-set-3.1.1/
sudo python setup.py install

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running install
running bdist_egg
running egg_info
writing ordered_set.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing dependency_links to ordered_set.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
writing top-level names to ordered_set.egg-info/top_level.txt
reading manifest file 'ordered_set.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
writing manifest file 'ordered_set.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
installing library code to build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg
running install_lib
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib
copying ordered_set.py -> build/lib
creating build/bdist.linux-x86_64
creating build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg
copying build/lib/ordered_set.py -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg
byte-compiling build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/ordered_set.py to ordered_set.cpython-38.pyc
creating build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying ordered_set.egg-info/PKG-INFO -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying ordered_set.egg-info/SOURCES.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying ordered_set.egg-info/dependency_links.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying ordered_set.egg-info/top_level.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents...
creating dist
creating 'dist/ordered_set-3.1.1-py3.8.egg' and adding 'build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg' to it
removing 'build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg' (and everything under it)
Processing ordered_set-3.1.1-py3.8.egg
Copying ordered_set-3.1.1-py3.8.egg to /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages
Adding ordered-set 3.1.1 to easy-install.pth file

Installed /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ordered_set-3.1.1-py3.8.egg
Processing dependencies for ordered-set==3.1.1
Finished processing dependencies for ordered-set==3.1.1

Great Success!

Finally, pip was able to run as usual.

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