while installing mu editor, i get error metadata-generation-failed and error subprocess-exited-with-error. I've updated pip, am running python 3.10.4

Question

Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable Requirement already satisfied: mu-editor in ./.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (1.0.3) Requirement already satisfied: pycodestyle==2.4.0 in ./.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from mu-editor) (2.4.0) Requirement already satisfied: qtconsole==4.3.1 in ./.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from mu-editor) (4.3.1) Requirement already satisfied: PyQtChart==5.14.0 in ./.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from mu-editor) (5.14.0) Requirement already satisfied: gpiozero>=1.4.1 in ./.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from mu-editor) (1.6.2) Requirement already satisfied: Pillow>=5.2.0 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from mu-editor) (9.0.1) Requirement already satisfied: requests>=2.19.1 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from mu-editor) (2.25.1) Requirement already satisfied: semver>=2.8.0 in ./.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from mu-editor) (2.13.0) Collecting pgzero==1.2 Using cached pgzero-1.2-py3-none-any.whl (69 kB) Collecting pyqt5==5.14.1 Using cached PyQt5-5.14.1-5.14.1-cp35.cp36.cp37.cp38-abi3-manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (63.5 MB) Requirement already satisfied: pyserial==3.4 in ./.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from mu-editor) (3.4) Requirement already satisfied: qscintilla==2.11.4 in ./.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from mu-editor) (2.11.4) Requirement already satisfied: pigpio>=1.40.post1 in ./.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from mu-editor) (1.78) Requirement already satisfied: nudatus>=0.0.3 in ./.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from mu-editor) (0.0.5) Requirement already satisfied: appdirs>=1.4.3 in ./.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from mu-editor) (1.4.4) Requirement already satisfied: guizero>=1.1.0 in ./.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from mu-editor) (1.3.0) Requirement already satisfied: matplotlib==2.2.2 in ./.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from mu-editor) (2.2.2) Requirement already satisfied: pyflakes==2.0.0 in ./.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from mu-editor) (2.0.0) Collecting kiwisolver>=1.0.1 Using cached kiwisolver-1.4.2-cp310-cp310-manylinux_2_12_x86_64.manylinux2010_x86_64.whl (1.6 MB) Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.10 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from matplotlib==2.2.2->mu-editor) (1.16.0) Requirement already satisfied: pyparsing!=2.0.4,!=2.1.2,!=2.1.6,>=2.0.1 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from matplotlib==2.2.2->mu-editor) (2.4.7) Collecting python-dateutil>=2.1 Using cached python_dateutil-2.8.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (247 kB) Collecting cycler>=0.10 Using cached cycler-0.11.0-py3-none-any.whl (6.4 kB) Requirement already satisfied: pytz in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from matplotlib==2.2.2->mu-editor) (2022.1) Requirement already satisfied: numpy>=1.7.1 in ./.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from matplotlib==2.2.2->mu-editor) (1.22.3) Collecting pygame<2.0,>=1.9.2
Using cached pygame-1.9.6.tar.gz (3.2 MB) Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error error: subprocess-exited-with-error × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully. │ exit code: 1 ╰─> [12 lines of output]

  WARNING, No "Setup" File Exists, Running "buildconfig/config.py"
  Using UNIX configuration...
  
  /bin/sh: 1: sdl-config: not found
  /bin/sh: 1: sdl-config: not found
  /bin/sh: 1: sdl-config: not found
  Unable to run "sdl-config". Please make sure a development version of SDL is installed.
  
  Hunting dependencies...
  WARNING: "sdl-config" failed!
  [end of output]
 note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip. error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata. ╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip. hint: See above for details.

I've installed python 3.10.4, reinstalled pip3 and updated it (tried to at least). I've followed the instructions on mu's website.

I'm using Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS x86_64. I recently updated my pop os from 20.04 LTS. After updating, mu-editor worked for a while and now I got this problem. I'm assuming it's due to my messing up some sort of code.

Any help or suggestions r greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

I suggest either

1. try running with --use-deprecated=backtrack-on-build-failures for example pip install pygames --use-deprecated=backtrack-on-build-failures OR

2. Try this command which I got from another stackoverflow question

   sudo apt-get install python-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsmpeg-dev python-numpy subversion libportmidi-dev ffmpeg libswscale-dev libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev libfreetype6-dev Before running your commands