Trying to install salt-ssh on windows from powershell

[kravivar]

Description of Question

Im trying to install salt-ssh on windows powershell using the pip and Im getting the following error. can someone help me ?

Collecting salt-ssh (from -r .\pyinstaller-requirements.txt (line 12))
  Using cached salt-ssh-2016.11.3.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    2016.11.3
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "c:\users\admini~1\appdata\local\temp\2\pip-build-wrdkyj\salt-ssh\setup.py", line 1238, in <module>
        setup(distclass=SaltDistribution)
      File "c:\python27\lib\distutils\core.py", line 111, in setup
        _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
      File "c:\users\admini~1\appdata\local\temp\2\pip-build-wrdkyj\salt-ssh\setup.py", line 893, in __init__
        self.update_metadata()
      File "c:\users\admini~1\appdata\local\temp\2\pip-build-wrdkyj\salt-ssh\setup.py", line 899, in update_metadata
        attrvalue = getattr(self, attrname, None)
      File "c:\users\admini~1\appdata\local\temp\2\pip-build-wrdkyj\salt-ssh\setup.py", line 1006, in _property_install_
requires
        install_requires += _parse_requirements_file(SALT_WINDOWS_REQS)
      File "c:\users\admini~1\appdata\local\temp\2\pip-build-wrdkyj\salt-ssh\setup.py", line 140, in _parse_requirements
_file
        with open(requirements_file) as rfh:
    IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'c:\\users\\admini~1\\appdata\\local\\temp\\2\\pip-build-wrdkyj\\salt-
ssh\\requirements\\windows.txt'

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in c:\users\admini~1\appdata\local\temp\2\pip-build-wrdkyj\s
alt-ssh\

Setup

Needs windows server 2008 or 2012

Steps to Reproduce Issue

pip install salt-ssh ( on windows powershell )

Versions Report

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/salt-ssh/2016.11.2

[gtmanfred]

Salt-ssh is not currently supported on windows.

We are working on developing it to be compatible for windows, but right now it is not supported.

Thanks,
Daniel

[gtmanfred]

It does look like we have a problem with this that installing with pip doesn't work on windows starting in 2016.11.

Daniel

[wtfiwtz]

FYI as an update, I had to do the following:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41843266/microsoft-windows-python-3-6-pycrypto-installation-error
pycrypto/pycrypto#221

cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\VC\Auxiliary\Build
vcvarsall amd64
cd \
set CL=-FI"%VCINSTALLDIR%\tools\msvc\14.13.26128\include\stdint.h"

pip install pycrypto   # not pycryptodomex or pycryptodome
pip install pywin32
pip install pypiwin32
pip install salt-ssh

... but it still fails here:

c:\>salt-ssh --help
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\smithni\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\Scripts\salt-ssh-script.py", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('salt-ssh==2017.7.4', 'console_scripts', 'salt-ssh')()
  File "c:\users\smithni\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\salt\scripts.py", line 410, in salt_ss
h
    import salt.cli.ssh
  File "c:\users\smithni\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\salt\cli\ssh.py", line 5, in <module>
    import salt.client.ssh
  File "c:\users\smithni\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\salt\client\__init__.py", line 30, in
<module>
    import salt.config
  File "c:\users\smithni\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\salt\config\__init__.py", line 1113, i
n <module>
    'user': salt.utils.get_user(),
  File "c:\users\smithni\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\salt\utils\__init__.py", line 304, in
get_user
    raise CommandExecutionError("Required external libraries not found. Need 'pwd' or 'win32api")
salt.exceptions.CommandExecutionError: Required external libraries not found. Need 'pwd' or 'win32api

Not sure what is the correct library pypiwin32 or pywin32...

[wtfiwtz]

Ok I got a bit further:

pip install psutil
cd %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36
python Scripts/pywin32_postinstall.py -install

... and now I can run salt-ssh --help successfully.

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[avrajsri]

pip uninstall crypto
Delete "crypto" Folder [C:\Users\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\Lib\site-packages]
pip install crypto
pip uninstall pycryptodome
pip install pycryptodome

pip uninstall pycryptodomex
pip install pycryptodomex
pip uninstall cryptography
pip install cryptography

Rename Folder "crypto" to "Crypto" [C:\Users\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\Lib\site-packages]

Then Use "from Crypto.Cipher import AES"