Unable to install sentencepiece on Python 3.12

[enricogandini]

When I run pip install sentencepiece, I get the following error:

Collecting sentencepiece
  Using cached sentencepiece-0.1.99.tar.gz (2.6 MB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Building wheels for collected packages: sentencepiece
  Building wheel for sentencepiece (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × python setup.py bdist_wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [62 lines of output]
      running bdist_wheel
      running build
      running build_py
      creating build
      creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython-312
      creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython-312/sentencepiece
      copying src/sentencepiece/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython-312/sentencepiece
      copying src/sentencepiece/_version.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython-312/sentencepiece
      copying src/sentencepiece/sentencepiece_model_pb2.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython-312/sentencepiece
      copying src/sentencepiece/sentencepiece_pb2.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython-312/sentencepiece
      running build_ext
      /bin/sh: 1: pkg-config: Permission denied
      ./build_bundled.sh: 21: cmake: Permission denied
      ./build_bundled.sh: 22: cmake: Permission denied

...

subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['./build_bundled.sh', '0.1.99']' returned non-zero exit status 127.
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for sentencepiece
  Running setup.py clean for sentencepiece
Failed to build sentencepiece
ERROR: Could not build wheels for sentencepiece, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

So it seems like the installation process of sentencepiece calls a build_bundled.sh script, which internally uses cmake, for which permission is denied.

System information

Python: 3.12.0
OS: Ubuntu 22.04.3

Notes

I think this issue is specific to Python 3.12: pip install sentencepiece works for me in a Python 3.11 environment.
I think this may be related to the removal of distutils from Python 3.12 (see PEP 632).

[h-vetinari]

Not sure if you are willing to consider conda, but we've had 3.12 builds of sentencepiece in conda-forge for almost two month now.

conda install -c conda-forge sentencepiece

[manueldeprada]

It worked for me after installing and removing cmake as a pip package. Here's a wheel, in case its useful:
sentencepiece-0.1.99-cp312-cp312-linux_x86_64.whl.zip

[taku910]

Fixed in v0.2.0