python dependencies cannot be installed

[torbenubechel]

Hi community,

I'm a newbie with python and have some trouble to install the sdk.

What I've done?
I downloaded the sdk from gihub and extract the files to my ansible server.
Then I tried to install the sdk.

python3.9 -m pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall -r /home/ubechel/vsphere/vsphere-automation-sdk-python-master/requirements.txt --extra-index-url file:///home/ubechel/vsphere/vsphere-automation-sdk-python-master/lib


Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, file:///home/ubechel/vsphere/vsphere-automation-sdk-python-master/lib
WARNING: Location 'file:///home/ubechel/vsphere/vsphere-automation-sdk-python-master/lib/lxml/' is ignored: it is neither a file nor a directory.
Collecting lxml>=4.3.0 (from -r /home/ubechel/vsphere/vsphere-automation-sdk-python-master/requirements.txt (line 2))
  Using cached lxml-4.9.2-cp39-cp39-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.manylinux_2_24_x86_64.whl (7.1 MB)
WARNING: Location 'file:///home/ubechel/vsphere/vsphere-automation-sdk-python-master/lib/pyvmomi/' is ignored: it is neither a file nor a directory.
Collecting pyVmomi>=6.7 (from -r /home/ubechel/vsphere/vsphere-automation-sdk-python-master/requirements.txt (line 3))
  Using cached pyvmomi-8.0.1.0.tar.gz (727 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
WARNING: Location 'file:///home/ubechel/vsphere/vsphere-automation-sdk-python-master/lib/six/' is ignored: it is neither a file nor a directory.
Collecting six>=1.12 (from -r /home/ubechel/vsphere/vsphere-automation-sdk-python-master/requirements.txt (line 4))
  Using cached six-1.16.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (11 kB)
WARNING: Location 'file:///home/ubechel/vsphere/vsphere-automation-sdk-python-master/lib/requests/' is ignored: it is neither a file nor a directory.
Collecting requests>=2.27.1 (from -r /home/ubechel/vsphere/vsphere-automation-sdk-python-master/requirements.txt (line 6))
  Using cached requests-2.30.0-py3-none-any.whl (62 kB)
WARNING: Location 'file:///home/ubechel/vsphere/vsphere-automation-sdk-python-master/lib/pyopenssl/' is ignored: it is neither a file nor a directory.
Collecting pyOpenSSL>=22.0.0 (from -r /home/ubechel/vsphere/vsphere-automation-sdk-python-master/requirements.txt (line 7))
  Using cached pyOpenSSL-23.1.1-py3-none-any.whl (57 kB)
WARNING: Location 'file:///home/ubechel/vsphere/vsphere-automation-sdk-python-master/lib/cryptography/' is ignored: it is neither a file nor a directory.
Collecting cryptography>=37.0.2 (from -r /home/ubechel/vsphere/vsphere-automation-sdk-python-master/requirements.txt (line 8))
  Using cached cryptography-40.0.2-cp36-abi3-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl (3.7 MB)
WARNING: Location 'file:///home/ubechel/vsphere/vsphere-automation-sdk-python-master/lib/setuptools/' is ignored: it is neither a file nor a directory.
Collecting setuptools>=62.3.2 (from -r /home/ubechel/vsphere/vsphere-automation-sdk-python-master/requirements.txt (line 9))
  Using cached setuptools-67.7.2-py3-none-any.whl (1.1 MB)
Processing ./vsphere-automation-sdk-python-master/lib/vcenter-bindings/vcenter_bindings-4.1.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (from -r /home/ubechel/vsphere/vsphere-automation-sdk-python-master/requirements.txt (line 11))
Collecting vmc-client-bindings (from -r /home/ubechel/vsphere/vsphere-automation-sdk-python-master/requirements.txt (line 12))
  Using cached vmc-client-bindings-7.0.0.tar.gz (1.0 kB)
  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]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
        File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
        File "/tmp/pip-install-kmz_gybv/vmc-client-bindings_654c1282e79b4d3fa821052828620b64/setup.py", line 13, in <module>
          license=read('LICENSE.txt'),
        File "/tmp/pip-install-kmz_gybv/vmc-client-bindings_654c1282e79b4d3fa821052828620b64/setup.py", line 5, in read
          with open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), fname)) as fn:
      FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/pip-install-kmz_gybv/vmc-client-bindings_654c1282e79b4d3fa821052828620b64/LICENSE.txt'
      [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 search in the internet, but didn't find any solution.

It would be so kind when assist me with this install problem.

best regards
torbenubechel

[torbenubechel]

python3.9 -m pip list
Package Version

---

ansible 6.3.0
ansible-core 2.13.3
certifi 2022.12.7
cffi 1.14.3
charset-normalizer 3.1.0
cryptography 40.0.2
idna 2.10
Jinja2 3.1.2
jmespath 1.0.0
lxml 4.9.2
MarkupSafe 2.1.2
packaging 23.1
pip 23.1.2
ply 3.11
pycparser 2.20
pyOpenSSL 23.1.1
pyvmomi 7.0.3
PyYAML 5.4.1
requests 2.28.2
resolvelib 0.8.1
setuptools 67.6.1
six 1.16.0
urllib3 1.26.15
wheel 0.40.0

python3.9 --version
Python 3.9.13

cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.7 (Ootpa)

[aagrawal3]

Hi @torbenubechel

Our README includes installation steps along with other resources. Please refer.