Using and installing setuptools

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I am using Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS on a Dell Precision 3581 (Intel i7-13800Hx20), X11 windowing, kernel 6.11.0-21 generic.

I am trying to install vplanet, and it require setuptools. I tried to install it using apt (apt install python3-setuptools), which seemed to have succeeded. However I get this error

(Pdb) n
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools'
> /home/emc/SRC/vplanet-main/setup.py(4)<module>()
-> from setuptools import Extension, find_packages, setu

So, my obvious question is what am I doing wrong?

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What did you run to install vplanet?

Just to complete the thought: You probably need to run pip install vplanet, but your post as written does not have enough information to know if this will be helpful advice or if you already tried that and there’s something more going on.

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python setup.py

I tried again, this time using make and the Makefile that came with vplanet’s source code. That seemed to work.

Sorry for wasting your time.