Issues with installing Wheel

[voy]

Hello,

I am working on an offline machine, and I need to update/install some Python dependencies.
I am using python-3.12.1-amd64.

I am trying to install/update wheel-0.42.0 module:

py -m pip install Dependencies/wheel-0.42.0.tar.gz

But it is failing due to lack of flit_core<4,>=3.8 being not satisfied.

When I do pip list, it is showing flit_core 3.9 being installed.

I tried install flit_core version 3.8 but I get same result, any ideas?

[kknechtel (Karl Knechtel)]

@voy

When I do pip list

What if you do py -m pip list, to match the py -m pip install?

[voy]

That showed exactly the same list.

But, I found that if I got wheel-0.42.0.whl instead of wheel-0.42.0.tar.gz it just worked…
Weird, but fixed

[barry-scott]

@voy

But, I found that if I got wheel-0.42.0.whl instead of wheel-0.42.0.tar.gz it just worked…
Weird, but fixed

The .tar.gz is source code of the wheel.
The actual wheel is the .whl file.

[jeanas (Jean Abou Samra)]

@voy

But it is failing due to lack of flit_core<4,>=3.8 being not satisfied.

I realize that you’ve solved your problem, but for the future or if you’re still interested in understanding the issue, please include the full error message.

@voy

When I do pip list, it is showing flit_core 3.9 being installed.

I tried install flit_core version 3.8 but I get same result, any ideas?

pip uses build isolation to build wheels. That means it won’t use the flit-core that you have installed, it will create a temporary environment for the build and install flit-core into that.