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Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-4rsvws0b/numpy/

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while running ./scripts/start.sh
on ubuntu-15.10 - 64-bit

Running from numpy source directory.Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/tmp/pip-build-4rsvws0b/numpy/setup.py", line 196, in <module>
    setup_package()
  File "/tmp/pip-build-4rsvws0b/numpy/setup.py", line 189, in setup_package
    configuration=configuration )
  File "/tmp/pip-build-4rsvws0b/numpy/build/py3k/numpy/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup
    config = configuration()
  File "/tmp/pip-build-4rsvws0b/numpy/setup.py", line 142, in configuration
    config.add_subpackage('numpy')
  File "/tmp/pip-build-4rsvws0b/numpy/build/py3k/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 1002, in add_subpackage
    caller_level = 2)
  File "/tmp/pip-build-4rsvws0b/numpy/build/py3k/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 971, in get_subpackage
    caller_level = caller_level + 1)
  File "/tmp/pip-build-4rsvws0b/numpy/build/py3k/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 908, in _get_configuration_from_setup_py
    config = setup_module.configuration(*args)
  File "numpy/setup.py", line 5, in configuration
    config = Configuration('numpy',parent_package,top_path)
  File "/tmp/pip-build-4rsvws0b/numpy/build/py3k/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 743, in __init__
    raise ValueError("%r is not a directory" % (package_path,))
ValueError: 'build/py3k/numpy' is not a directory
Converting to Python3 via 2to3...

----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-4rsvws0b/numpy/

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

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ishankhare07commented, Apr 20, 2016

@seanlip you were right. This confusion was because I installed pip from get-pip.py which started pointing my default pip to python3.4 version pip.

fixing this and rolling back to pip and pip3 provided by debian (apt-get) solved this error.

But I guess I found the reason behind #1580 during the process. It fails when using the --target flag. Will update it there in detail

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apoorv1997commented, Mar 10, 2019

I ran into the same error while installing PIL, but it also show a syntax error. I’m attaching a screenshot for the same, would be really helpful if anybody can help.

Screenshot from 2019-03-10 14-21-34

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