pip install Python-linkedin issues

Question

Help!

Big time noob question here. I'm trying to figure out the python world and started by creating a virtual environment. Everything looks alright - didn't get any errors.

Though, when I try to install this http://ozgur.github.io/python-linkedin/ wrapper I get an error:

(venv)user@ip-10-154-150-219:~/bin$ pip install python-linkedin Downloading/unpacking python-linkedin Running setup.py egg_info for package python-linkedin Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 16, in File "/home/user/Envs/venv/build/python-linkedin/setup.py", line 12, in with open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname( file ), 'README.rst')) as readme: IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/user/Envs/venv/build/python-linkedin/README.rst' Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info: Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 16, in

File "/home/user/Envs/venv/build/python-linkedin/setup.py", line 12, in

with open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'README.rst')) as readme:

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/user/Envs/venv/build/python-linkedin/README.rst'

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Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /home/user/Envs/venv/build/python-linkedin

Any and all help would be very appreciated - I'm sure its something really stupid.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I believe this is not your fault. I took a quick glance at the current master tree of python-linkedin repository and it seems that README.rst file is missing from the distribution the author uploaded to PyPi.

I'm filing a bug and attaching a pull request so hopefully you'll be able to install it soon.

Edit: there's already an issue raised , I'm just going to attach a pull request then: https://github.com/ozgur/python-linkedin/pull/20

Edit: attach a method on how to make it install for you, and still be able to uninstall and/or update through pip if you want to.

1. Go to my fork for now: https://github.com/woozyking/python-linkedin
2. git clone https://github.com/woozyking/python-linkedin.git or download the zip
3. (Extract zip and) go into python-linkedin folder.
4. Do python setup.py sdist
5. Go into python-linkedin/dist , and do pip install python-linkedin-2.0.[OS_dependent] (normally you should only get one file, so just tab for auto suggestion for the distribution archive file name.

And you're done.

Edit: my pull request has been merged, it's believed to be updated on PyPi as well, give it a shot again :)