Blinker not installing

[Joshua-Bornman]

Issue Description

When installing King-Phisher I get the following message:
"Cannot uninstall 'blinker'. It is a distutils installed project and thus we cannot accurately determine which files belong to it which would lead to only a partial uninstall."

Reproduction Steps

1. Run the install command: "/opt/king-phisher/tools$ sudo ./install.sh"

Environment Details

Host OS: Ubuntu 16.04.
King Phisher Version: 1.11.0 Final

Error Details / Stack Trace

When installing King-Phisher I get the following message:
"Cannot uninstall 'blinker'. It is a distutils installed project and thus we cannot accurately determine which files belong to it which would lead to only a partial uninstall."

[zeroSteiner]

So after you get that message does the installation fail? Also what are the messages above and below it, we need some more context here.

@wolfthefallen Are we uninstalling the native blinker package on Ubuntu to replace it with the one from PyPi?

[wolfthefallen]

No, currently the install script does not uninstall any python packages that could be potentially installed through native package managers. That would have the potential of breaking some operating systems applications such as those on Kali.

You will have to manually uninstall the blinker package, sudo apt remove python3-blinker and then run the install script again.

[Joshua-Bornman]

Everything before this point works. More info is below, after this message the installation stops. I tried to uninstall and reinstall blinker as suggested but it gave the same error.

"Installing collected packages: blinker, boltons, idna, asn1crypto, pycparser, cffi, cryptography, dnspython, ecdsa, email-validator, urllib3, certifi, chardet, requests, maxminddb, geoip2, geojson, typing, promise, rx, graphql-core, graphql-relay, graphene, iso8601, singledispatch, graphene-sqlalchemy, pytz, icalendar, jsonschema, markupsafe, jinja2, cycler, kiwisolver, numpy, matplotlib, msgpack-python, pynacl, bcrypt, paramiko, pluginbase, psycopg2, pyotp, python-pam, PyYAML, requests-file, smoke-zephyr, termcolor, tzlocal, websocket-client, XlsxWriter
Found existing installation: blinker 1.3
Cannot uninstall 'blinker'. It is a distutils installed project and thus we cannot accurately determine which files belong to it which would lead to only a partial uninstall.
ERROR: Failed to install python requirements with pip
root@user:/opt/king-phisher/tools$ "

[zeroSteiner]

We did not suggest that you reinstall blinker, only that you use apt remove to uninstall it. Leave it uninstalled and then run the King Phisher install script which will then handle the necessary dependencies for you.

[killercoderz4]

i have the same issue. i both uinstalled and purged it and it failed to install. i use ubuntu 16.04

[killercoderz4]

fresh issue cannot uninstall xlsxwriter. i just dont know how to solve it.i hav etaken care of the binker issue

[killercoderz4]

i have fixed it . it installed smoohtly.t hanks. only issue is it removes all css when i run it. it says error in css parser. when i run the client , i get such error mesages

[GrineUlf]

I have had this problem often enough, just use sudo apt-get remove python3 and then run the install.sh script again. This will re-install python3.6 and blinker along with it.

I once tried what @zeroSteiner and @wolfthefallen says, and that didn't work for me (dunno why), but the step I describe has worked 4 times now for me :)

[killercoderz4]

Yeah it working . Please I have an issue with Ivan of the kingphisher client. When I start it. I see error parsing Css. And it strips off the theme of the app. It appears bland. No skin. I use Ubuntu 16. I don't know why. But the app works fine. Delivers well formed letters. The issue is the skin of the client app itself. Thanks a lot

[zeroSteiner]

@killercoderz4 if you're having a theme related issue can you please open a separate issue to track it? We try to keep the issues on topic in regards to the original post so this information is organized for other users who may be experiencing the same issue. When you do open the issue, please be sure to fill out all of the information in the issue template. Thanks!

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