can't install vpython on linux mint

Question

i tried installing vpython on linux mint 19

using this commands:

sudo apt-get install python3-pip
pip3 install vpython

the error i get:

Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools'


Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-9f9b5ihc/vpython/

Answer 1

There is actually quite clear answer to your question in the error message you get from python:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools' and it basically means that this module is required to complete the operation you try to perform, but it is missing in your system.

You can easily install it using apt-get :

apt-get install -y python3-setuptools for python3

apt-get install -y python-setuptools for python

Then try to run your command again and it should work.