ka-lite failed to install on win 10, raised Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1

[engrsmukhtar]

Summary

I ran pip install ka-lite on windows 10 and it returned a

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'version'

System information

HP 6.00 GB Ram | 64-bit Operating System, x64-based processor
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.16299.371]
(c) 2017 Microsoft Corporation.

Please specify the KA Lite version you were using and your operating system!
ka-lite-0.17.4.tar.gz

• Operating system: Windows 10
• Version: 0.16299.371
• Python: Version 3.6.5

Traceback or relevant snippet from server.log

`
Collecting ka-lite
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ae/13/e98aa7284b9e409a451e3d96a72f0d6ef7635f063e2983deb56ada733d99/ka-lite-0.17.4.tar.gz (29.4MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 29.5MB 289kB/s
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "C:\Users\MyName\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-ujpfskc_\ka-lite\setup.py", line 17, in
import kalite
File "C:\Users\MyName\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-ujpfskc_\ka-lite\kalite_init_.py", line 4, in
from version import *
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'version'

----------------------------------------

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\MyName\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-ujpfskc_\ka-lite
`

Real-life consequences (anything community should be aware, for instance how it affects your deployment)

Initially, the Windows installer didn't install with Python 3.6.5. I googled but the only related thing was a yaml library dependency breaks the installer #3633

Thanks for your help on how to go about this.

[Richard T. Amodia]

@engrsmukhtar I recommend you use the KA Lite Windows installer when installing KA Lite at Windows.

[Benjamin Balder Bach]

Hi @engrsmukhtar

KA Lite isn't compatible with Python 3. You need to use Python 2.7 to install it from pip.