Can't install with pip on a downloaded repo

[DavidGriffith]

I'm on Debian 12 (bookworm) which installs Python 3.11, so I can't yet do

pip install py_slvs

So I should be able to to clone this repo and then do either of the following, right?

python setup.py install

or

pip install .

That didn't work.

$ pip -V
pip 23.0 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip (python 3.11)
$ pip install .
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Processing /home/dave/proj/local-admin/python/slvs_py
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [8 lines of output]
      skipping skbuild (no CMakeLists.txt found)
      running egg_info
      creating /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-i3olrbww/py_slvs.egg-info
      writing /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-i3olrbww/py_slvs.egg-info/PKG-INFO
      writing dependency_links to /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-i3olrbww/py_slvs.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
      writing top-level names to /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-i3olrbww/py_slvs.egg-info/top_level.txt
      writing manifest file '/tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-i3olrbww/py_slvs.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
      error: package directory 'py_slvs' does not exist
      [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.

I also tried this on a Debian 11 (bullseye) machine which uses Python 3.9.

$ pip -V
pip 20.3.4 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip (python 3.9)

[mich-j]

@DavidGriffith You can try to get the newest version of FreeCAD (0.20.2), install Assembly3 via the Add-on Manager and click Ok when it prompts about lack of py_slvs dependency and suggests auto-installation. I had an similar error, updating FreeCAD from v0.19 solved it.

[realthunder]

You'll need scikit-build, just pip install scikit-build. BTW, I've uploaded prebuilt wheel for Python 3.11, so you don't really need to build it yourself.