Unable to install Plaso via (unsupported installation method) pip

[kgeorgeee]

Running pip install on Ubuntu 22.04 with Python 3.10.12 and pip 22.0.2, error with dependency dfvfs , posted ticket here

To Reproduce:

pip install plaso
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting plaso
  Using cached plaso-20231224.tar.gz (2.8 MB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [51 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/_vendor/packaging/requirements.py", line 102, in __init__
          req = REQUIREMENT.parseString(requirement_string)
        File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/_vendor/pyparsing.py", line 1654, in parseString
          raise exc
        File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/_vendor/pyparsing.py", line 1644, in parseString
          loc, tokens = self._parse( instring, 0 )
        File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/_vendor/pyparsing.py", line 1402, in _parseNoCache
          loc,tokens = self.parseImpl( instring, preloc, doActions )
        File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/_vendor/pyparsing.py", line 3417, in parseImpl
          loc, exprtokens = e._parse( instring, loc, doActions )
        File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/_vendor/pyparsing.py", line 1406, in _parseNoCache
          loc,tokens = self.parseImpl( instring, preloc, doActions )
        File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/_vendor/pyparsing.py", line 3205, in parseImpl
          raise ParseException(instring, loc, self.errmsg, self)
      pkg_resources._vendor.pyparsing.ParseException: Expected stringEnd (at char 4), (line:1, col:5)
      
      During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
      
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py", line 363, in <module>
          main()
        File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py", line 345, in main
          json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
        File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py", line 130, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return hook(config_settings)
        File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 162, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return self._get_build_requires(
        File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 143, in _get_build_requires
          self.run_setup()
        File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 158, in run_setup
          exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'), locals())
        File "setup.py", line 11, in <module>
          setup(
        File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 152, in setup
          _install_setup_requires(attrs)
        File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 145, in _install_setup_requires
          dist.parse_config_files(ignore_option_errors=True)
        File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 807, in parse_config_files
          self._finalize_requires()
        File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 534, in _finalize_requires
          self._move_install_requirements_markers()
        File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 573, in _move_install_requirements_markers
          inst_reqs = list(pkg_resources.parse_requirements(spec_inst_reqs))
        File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3099, in parse_requirements
          yield Requirement(line)
        File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3109, in __init__
          super(Requirement, self).__init__(requirement_string)
        File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/_vendor/packaging/requirements.py", line 104, in __init__
          raise InvalidRequirement(
      pkg_resources.extern.packaging.requirements.InvalidRequirement: Parse error at "':require'": Expected stringEnd
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip

[Joachim Metz]

Have a read of https://plaso.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sources/user/Users-Guide.html I don't recommend using pip if you're not confortable with debugging Python installation issues. I don't have time to debug your build environment, my guess would be your pip and setuptools are out of date.