Error installing ReText on Windows: -single-version-externally-managed not recognized

[UNIVAC-Colonel-Panic]

Windows 10 Home
Python 3.6.2, 32bit

Attempting install with:
python -m pip install ReText

Log is at https://pastebin.com/iEHcjKtJ

I've tried installing as administrator (you'll see "Requirement already satisfied") and get the same result.

Brand new install of Python.

I realize the Windows version of ReText is not officially supported. I'm hoping the error is not platform specific but I don't know for sure.

[mitya57]

This is duplicate of #295. It will be fixed in the next release.

As a workaround you can install the version from Git with setup.py install.

[UNIVAC-Colonel-Panic]

Thanks, mitya57, that took care of it. The toolbar icons were missing but I found them (step 4 below). In case anyone else has this issue on Windows before the next release of ReText, I did:

1. Download https://github.com/retext-project/retext/archive/master.zip to a temporary folder.
2. Unzip it.
3. Changed to the temporary folder and did: python setup.py install
4. Download the icon pack https://github.com/retext-project/retext/archive/icons.tar.gz. to a temporary folder.
5. Extract the icon pack (I used 7zip).
6. Copy the icons. Assuming you're in the temporary folder:
   copy retext-icons\ C:\Python36-32\share\retext\icons\

[mitya57]

You could use python setup.py bundle_icons before installing, which would automatically download and unpack the icons.