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Error when trying to install on pip

See original GitHub issue

Im getting this error after trying to install it on kali linux wsl2 or windows normally.


Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting video-to-ascii
  Downloading video_to_ascii-1.3.0.tar.gz (6.9 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [15 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "/tmp/pip-install-k19bynbv/video-to-ascii_168962df3c8d49358f05e874508b0ea7/setup.py", line 11, in install_package
          main.main(['install', package])
      AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'main'

      During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
        File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
        File "/tmp/pip-install-k19bynbv/video-to-ascii_168962df3c8d49358f05e874508b0ea7/setup.py", line 21, in <module>
          install_package('opencv-python')
        File "/tmp/pip-install-k19bynbv/video-to-ascii_168962df3c8d49358f05e874508b0ea7/setup.py", line 14, in install_package
          __main__._main(['install', package])
      AttributeError: module 'pip.__main__' has no attribute '_main'
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.