pip install askbot error - Command “python setup.py egg_info” failed with error code 1

Question

I want to install askbot app ( http://askbot.org/doc/install.html ). But I encountered error during installation.

I've did below actions.

1) made virtual environment under ananconda (python 3.5.2 / ubuntu 14.04)

2) installed django 1.9.8

3) made django project myproject

4) modified settings.py to connect MariaDB

5) installed mysql client

# sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev 
# pip install mysqlclient

6) migrated

python manage.py migrate

7) registered app

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'myproject',
]

But when I try to install askbot as below, I found error.

(envask)root@localhost:~/vikander# pip install askbot
Collecting askbot
  Downloading askbot-0.10.0.tar.gz (8.6MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 8.6MB 116kB/s
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-build-vppvsnhk/askbot/setup.py", line 135
       **************************************************************"""
                                                                    ^
    SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-vppvsnhk/askbot/

Is this python version problem? Is there no way to install askbot under python 3.x envirionment? Thanks in advnace.

Answer 1

Askbot is not compatible with python 3, which changes print from a statement like so:

print `Hello World`

into a function:

print('Hello world')

More about this change here

You'll need to find an alternative, or push a fix to the Askbot repo.