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how to install a repository from github?

I want to install the following github repository, yet I recieve an error. what am I doing wrong?
pip install git+https://github.com/gablum/DeepHit.git
I got the following error:
ERROR: Cannot unpack file /tmp/pip-unpack-w7qkjzy3/DeepHit (downloaded from /tmp/pip-req-build-nmcpks7w, content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8); cannot detect archive format
ERROR: Cannot determine archive format of /tmp/pip-req-build-nmcpks7w

To install a thing with pip the thing must be an installable package. The repository is not a Python package — it doesn't have setup.py, it doesn't even have __init__.py. It's not a package and cannot be installed.
To use it you should ask the source how the code is supposed to be used. I suspect the answer will include manipulations with PYTHONPATH or copying the code directly into your working directory.

To download a repository just use git clone https://github.com/repository-name-here.git
What you do next depends on the repository. In your case I would take a look at the documentation of the repository itself which can often be found on GitHub too.

How to upgrade/uninstall distutils packages (PyYAML) in windows OS

I am working in WIN10 , with python 2.7.15
I am try to install package, during the installation process I received the following error .
Cannot uninstall 'PyYAML'. It is a distutils installed project and thus we cannot accurately determine which files belong to it which would lead to only a partial uninstall.
I try to uninstall with pip (18.1) command and I received the same error.
pip uninstall PyYAML
How I can uninstall/upgrade distutils packge in win10 OS.

Base distutils functionality doesn't leave any information about which files belong to a package -- thus it cannot be reliably uninstalled. That's what the message is telling you. Moreover, it doesn't have dependency metadata, so it can't be "upgraded" reliably, either. All those features are additions by setuptools (and some by wheel and pip itself).
This can happen if you installed the package directly from source with setup.py install if setup.py is distutils- rather than setuptools-based. Or if you installed it manually from some types of packages by copying/extracting files.
Unless the way you installed it provides an own uninstaller, you'll have to manually figure out which files belong to the package and delete them from Python directories.
Usually, these are:
site-packages\<package_name>* directories and/or
site-packages\<package_name>*.py for standalone modules
optionally, a site-packages\<package_name>.pth file
Generally, look for anything that bears the package's name on it.
If you can build the same package from source, you can use the build process to get a hint: build a binaly package that you can look into (e.g. setup.py bdist_wheel -- .whl is a ZIP archive) and see what files it has in it.

Error installing Python 2 via Homebrew on MacOS Mojave

I'm having a lot of trouble with installing Python 2.7 on the MacOS 10.14 Mojave Beta.
Yes, I know that Python 2 comes pre-installed on the Mac, but I need a framework build of Python for my task.
I've tried re-installing the command line tools and then installing Python 2.7 as suggested here and here, but am still having issues - below is my output:
NickLaptop:~ nicholasarner$ brew reinstall python#2
==> Reinstalling python#2
==> Downloading https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.15/Python-2.7.15.tar.xz
Already downloaded: /Users/nicholasarner/Library/Caches/Homebrew/python#2-2.7.15.tar.xz
==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/python#2/2.7.15_1 --enable-ipv6 --datarootdir=/usr/l
==> make
==> make install PYTHONAPPSDIR=/usr/local/Cellar/python#2/2.7.15_1
==> make frameworkinstallextras PYTHONAPPSDIR=/usr/local/Cellar/python#2/2.7.15_1/share/python#
==> Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/1a/04/d6f1159feaccdfc508517dba1929eb93a
Already downloaded: /Users/nicholasarner/Library/Caches/Homebrew/python#2--setuptools-39.2.0.zip
==> Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ae/e8/2340d46ecadb1692a1e455f13f75e596d
Already downloaded: /Users/nicholasarner/Library/Caches/Homebrew/python#2--pip-10.0.1.tar.gz
==> Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/2a/fb/aefe5d5dbc3f4fe1e815bcdb05cbaab19
Already downloaded: /Users/nicholasarner/Library/Caches/Homebrew/python#2--wheel-0.31.1.tar.gz
==> make html
Last 15 lines from /Users/nicholasarner/Library/Logs/Homebrew/python#2/05.make:
return build_main(argv)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/sphinx-doc/1.7.5_1/libexec/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sphinx/cmd/build.py", line 22, in build_main
from sphinx import cmdline
File "/usr/local/Cellar/sphinx-doc/1.7.5_1/libexec/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sphinx/cmdline.py", line 23, in <module>
from sphinx.application import Sphinx
File "/usr/local/Cellar/sphinx-doc/1.7.5_1/libexec/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sphinx/application.py", line 29, in <module>
from sphinx.config import Config
File "/usr/local/Cellar/sphinx-doc/1.7.5_1/libexec/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sphinx/config.py", line 21, in <module>
from sphinx.util import logging
File "/usr/local/Cellar/sphinx-doc/1.7.5_1/libexec/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sphinx/util/__init__.py", line 33, in <module>
from sphinx.util import logging
File "/usr/local/Cellar/sphinx-doc/1.7.5_1/libexec/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sphinx/util/logging.py", line 106, in <module>
class SphinxLoggerAdapter(logging.LoggerAdapter):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'LoggerAdapter'
make: *** [build] Error 1
Do not report this issue to Homebrew/brew or Homebrew/core!
These open issues may also help:
python 3.7.0 https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/29490
python upgrade failing https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/29214
app-engine-python 1.9.70 https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/28858
molecule: Use correct `docker` python package dependency https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/28635
[root] formula does not link against python#2 correctly. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/29377
clingo add support for lua, use python 3 https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/28057
OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted for python#2 –with-tcl-tk https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/28168
Error: You are using macOS 10.14.
We do not provide support for this pre-release version.
You may encounter build failures or other breakages.
Please create pull-requests instead of filing issues.
Error: You are using macOS 10.14.
We do not provide support for this pre-release version.
You may encounter build failures or other breakages.
Please create pull-requests instead of filing issues
Any help is appreciated!
EDIT Please don't suggest Anaconda! For what I'm working on, I specifically need a framework built version of Python via Brew.
EDIT 2 - I tried reinstalling Sphinx, which happened with no problems. Upon doing that, I tried running install python#2 again, but had the same issue as before.
Below is the output of running brew doctor
NickLaptop:~ nicholasarner$ brew doctor
Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers
with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is
working fine: please don't worry or file an issue; just ignore this. Thanks!
Warning: "config" scripts exist outside your system or Homebrew directories.
`./configure` scripts often look for *-config scripts to determine if
software packages are installed, and what additional flags to use when
compiling and linking.
Having additional scripts in your path can confuse software installed via
Homebrew if the config script overrides a system or Homebrew provided
script of the same name. We found the following "config" scripts:
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2-config
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2.7-config
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python-config
/usr/local/CrossPack-AVR/bin/libusb-config
Warning: Unbrewed dylibs were found in /usr/local/lib.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.
Unexpected dylibs:
/usr/local/lib/libFLAC.8.2.0.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libcdt.5.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libcgraph.6.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libcsnd6.6.0.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libfltk.1.1.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libfltk.1.3.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libfltk_forms.1.3.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libfltk_images.1.1.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libfltk_images.1.3.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libfluidsynth.1.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libgraph.5.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libgvc.6.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libgvpr.2.dylib
/usr/local/lib/liblo.0.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libluajit-5.1.2.0.2.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libmpadec.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libpathplan.4.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libpng12.0.dylib
/usr/local/lib/librealsense.1.12.1.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libsfml-audio.2.0.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libsfml-graphics.2.0.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libsfml-network.2.0.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libsfml-system.2.0.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libsfml-window.2.0.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libsndfile.1.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libwiiuse.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libxdot.4.dylib
Warning: Unbrewed header files were found in /usr/local/include.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.
Unexpected header files:
/usr/local/include/graphviz/arith.h
/usr/local/include/graphviz/cdt.h
/usr/local/include/graphviz/cgraph.h
/usr/local/include/graphviz/color.h
/usr/local/include/graphviz/geom.h
/usr/local/include/graphviz/graph.h
/usr/local/include/graphviz/graphviz_version.h
/usr/local/include/graphviz/gvc.h
/usr/local/include/graphviz/gvcext.h
/usr/local/include/graphviz/gvcjob.h
/usr/local/include/graphviz/gvcommon.h
/usr/local/include/graphviz/gvconfig.h
/usr/local/include/graphviz/gvplugin.h
/usr/local/include/graphviz/gvplugin_device.h
/usr/local/include/graphviz/gvplugin_layout.h
/usr/local/include/graphviz/gvplugin_loadimage.h
/usr/local/include/graphviz/gvplugin_render.h
/usr/local/include/graphviz/gvplugin_textlayout.h
/usr/local/include/graphviz/gvpr.h
/usr/local/include/graphviz/pack.h
/usr/local/include/graphviz/pathgeom.h
/usr/local/include/graphviz/pathplan.h
/usr/local/include/graphviz/textpara.h
/usr/local/include/graphviz/types.h
/usr/local/include/graphviz/usershape.h
/usr/local/include/graphviz/xdot.h
/usr/local/include/jack/control.h
/usr/local/include/jack/intclient.h
/usr/local/include/jack/jack.h
/usr/local/include/jack/jslist.h
/usr/local/include/jack/metadata.h
/usr/local/include/jack/midiport.h
/usr/local/include/jack/net.h
/usr/local/include/jack/ringbuffer.h
/usr/local/include/jack/session.h
/usr/local/include/jack/statistics.h
/usr/local/include/jack/systemdeps.h
/usr/local/include/jack/thread.h
/usr/local/include/jack/transport.h
/usr/local/include/jack/types.h
/usr/local/include/jack/uuid.h
/usr/local/include/jack/weakjack.h
/usr/local/include/jack/weakmacros.h
/usr/local/include/librealsense/rs.h
/usr/local/include/librealsense/rsutil.h
/usr/local/include/runt.h
/usr/local/include/sndfile.h
/usr/local/include/soundpipe.h
/usr/local/include/sporth.h
Warning: Unbrewed .la files were found in /usr/local/lib.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.
Unexpected .la files:
/usr/local/lib/liblo.la
/usr/local/lib/libsndfile.la
Warning: Unbrewed .pc files were found in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.
Unexpected .pc files:
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/jack.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libcdt.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libcgraph.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libgraph.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libgvc.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libgvpr.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libpathplan.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libxdot.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/sndfile.pc
Warning: Unbrewed static libraries were found in /usr/local/lib.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.
Unexpected static libraries:
/usr/local/lib/liblua.a
/usr/local/lib/librunt.a
/usr/local/lib/libsndfile.a
/usr/local/lib/libsoundpipe.a
/usr/local/lib/libsporth.a
Warning: You have unlinked kegs in your Cellar
Leaving kegs unlinked can lead to build-trouble and cause brews that depend on
those kegs to fail to run properly once built. Run `brew link` on these:
lua
libsndfile
ruby
Warning: You are using macOS 10.14.
We do not provide support for this pre-release version.
You may encounter build failures or other breakages.
Please create pull-requests instead of filing issues.
Warning: Broken symlinks were found. Remove them with `brew prune`:
/usr/local/bin/git-remote-keybase
/usr/local/bin/keybase
/usr/local/bin/lua
/usr/local/bin/lua-5.2
/usr/local/bin/lua5.2
/usr/local/bin/luac
/usr/local/bin/luac-5.2
/usr/local/bin/luac5.2
/usr/local/bin/luarocks
/usr/local/bin/luarocks-5.2
/usr/local/bin/luarocks-admin
/usr/local/bin/luarocks-admin-5.2
/usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/_brew_services
/usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf
/usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf
/usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-vera.conf
/usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf
/usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-urw-aliases.conf
/usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/40-nonlatin.conf
/usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/45-latin.conf
/usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/49-sansserif.conf
/usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf
/usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf
/usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-latin.conf
/usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf
/usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-nonlatin.conf
/usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/69-unifont.conf
/usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/80-delicious.conf
/usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/90-synthetic.conf
/usr/local/include/lauxlib.h
/usr/local/include/lua.h
/usr/local/include/lua.hpp
/usr/local/include/lua5.2
/usr/local/include/luaconf.h
/usr/local/include/lualib.h
/usr/local/opt/qt5
Warning: Some installed formulae are missing dependencies.
You should `brew install` the missing dependencies:
brew install harfbuzz mono
Run `brew missing` for more details.
This is the output when running brew config:
HOMEBREW_VERSION: 1.6.9-39-g376f67b
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew.git
HEAD: 376f67bf2c8893a06bf1e42a2375d58e9d8c2670
Last commit: 2 hours ago
Core tap ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core
Core tap HEAD: 69b99b69ff3a9c686b9d9fb0102927c5dd2f373b
Core tap last commit: 3 hours ago
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /usr/local
HOMEBREW_DEV_CMD_RUN: 1
CPU: quad-core 64-bit skylake
Homebrew Ruby: 2.3.3 => /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/portable-ruby/2.3.3_2/bin/ruby
Clang: 10.0 build 1000
Git: 2.17.1 => /usr/local/bin/git
Curl: 7.54.0 => /usr/bin/curl
Java: 1.8.0_131
macOS: 10.14-x86_64
CLT: 10.0.0.0.1.1529074627
CLT headers: 10.0.0.0.1.1529074627
Xcode: 10.0 => /Applications/Xcode-beta.app/Contents/Developer
XQuartz: 2.7.11 => /opt/X11

I had the same problem.
I was able to fix it by completely uninstalling and reinstalling Python after following step by step in this answer: How to fix broken python 2.7.11 after OSx updates
After the reinstallation the problem was gone

As I read you output - this is not a problem with python directly it is a problem with sphinx which builds the docs. I would go for the following steps:
brew update && brew upgrade
brew install sphinx (maybe this gives a better error message or solves the problem if sphinx is installed before)
brew reinstall python#2
If this is not working: Did you reinstalled the commandline tools after upgrading to mac os 10.14? (xcode-select --install). If not installed/updated before do it and retry.
If this all is not working could you please execute brew doctor and post the output so we can better see whats going on with your homebrew instane?
Maybe it could be a option to make an roll back to a stable version of Mac OS (10.13) ?

I'd suggest you used the Anaconda Distribution of python. Anaconda offers both python 2.7 and python 3.6 with easy to use python installers for both versions. The Anaconda page explains how to install and run python on your mac.

Where did my python module install to?

I'm running python 3.6 via anaconda 3, using Visual Studio Code.
I followed instructions like these (Interactive Brokers API install) and downloaded the package to a local directory of mine say: c:\dev\pyib, so now the code is in c:\dev\pyib\IbPy-master
I open that directory in command line and run
python setup.py install
All runs ok.
But then my program, which is in c:\dev\pyib says Module not found. (In my case ibapi). The linter is also showing red.
There is no other python installed on this pc.
Where did the package install to? and how do I check that? What will I find where the package installed itself to that shows me its there?
Or do I have to use a trial-and-error with the linter and sys.path.append()? (I tried that with the directory where the files are downloaded to - to no avail)
I'm trying to set up the PYTHONPATH using the "env" in launch.json from Visual Studio Code, as shown in this unaccepted answer.
Current sys.path:
'c:\\dev\\pyIb',
'C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Continuum\\anaconda3\\python36.zip',
'C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Continuum\\anaconda3\\DLLs',
'C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Continuum\\anaconda3\\lib',
'C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Continuum\\anaconda3',
'C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Continuum\\anaconda3\\lib\\site-
packages',
'C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Continuum\\anaconda3\\lib\\site-packages\\Babel-2.5.0-py3.6.egg',
'C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Continuum\\anaconda3\\lib\\site-packages\\win32',
'C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Continuum\\anaconda3\\lib\\site-packages\\win32\\lib',
'C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Continuum\\anaconda3\\lib\\site-packages\\Pythonwin'
I deleted the ib directory and re-ran the install. The last line says: Writing C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\Lib\site-pac‌​kages\IbPy2-0.8.0-py‌​3.6.egg-info So is the location of the egg-info the location of my undetected module? The actual folder in the site-packages is called ib.
Or could my problems be because of a difference in Lib vs. lib with the lowercase in the sys.path and the uppercase in the actual directory?
But the real question here is still: HOW DO I KNOW WHERE the package was installed what should I search for?

This answer is specific for anaconda3 Python and packages installed using python setup.py install (which is actually using distutils)
Take a look at anaconda3\Lib\site-packages you should see a directory for the package you installed.
The way to know for sure where your package is, is by doing a pip list then trying to pip uninstall and re-install again using the python setup.py install: Here are the detailed instructions:
When uninstalling, pip will tell you it cannot because it was done via distutils.
You'll get a message like this:
DEPRECATION: Uninstalling a distutils installed project (ibpy2) has been deprecated and will be removed in a future version.
This is due to the fact that uninstalling a distutils project will only partially uninstall the project.
You'll be prompted to continue anyway. If you choose No, then you can find the directory in
C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\Lib\site-packages
Thanks to Emanuel Mtali for pointing me in the right direction
Some more information:
The problem I had was due to a stupid mistake of mine. I was running setup of a different (but related) package not used anymore. IbPy2 instead of TwsAPI. I was supposed to run the setup.py of the package installed via the latest version of the MSI from IB, and NOT the IbPy2 package. :-(

Cannot compile Python 3.6 with Zlib support

I am trying to cross-compile Python for a Raspberry Pi 3, but I've been having a lot of issues. For one, it doesn't come with pip nor setuptools and if I try to install pip via python3.6 get-pip.py I get a
zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available
error. Now, I tried to configure it using the --with-zlib option but the configure script shows a warning that reads
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-zlib
I read A LOT of questions regarding this issue and I double-checked that ALL necessary files are present, I'm on Fedora, and I have installed both zlib and zlib-devel.
I also have just ran a simple installation (excluding the options and envvars to cross-compile, and using a prefix for the output, so it doesn't mess with my existing installation from the repos) and it also doesn't work, pip and setuptools are not present in site-packages in the output and configure also can't recognize the --with- options
What am I doing wrong? I'm on Fedora 26 which has python3.6 in the repos, if that matters for some reason.
Edit: Apparently, I also can't build other packages as well:
Python build finished successfully!
The necessary bits to build these optional modules were not found:
_bz2 _curses _curses_panel
_dbm _gdbm _lzma
_sqlite3 _ssl _tkinter
readline zlib
To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the module's name.
I have checked in setup.py, specifically for the zlib case and it is apparently ignoring my system's dirs when looking for header files:
zlib_inc = find_file('zlib.h', [], inc_dirs)
As you can see the arg that should be filled with my system's "standard" paths is empty, If this is a generated file, how can I instruct it to fill it with the beforementioned paths? --with-zlib-dir=/path and --with-zlib=/path yielded the same results, the configure script didn't recognize them.
What is wrong with the process? How can I have Python find and build those packages?
This is a follow-up question for my question about the installation missing pip and setuptools.