On a RHEL machine
I have some old Django projects that I'm moving to a new server, these were written for Python2.6, Django1.4.3
I've installed python2.7, created the virtualenvs in my home directory, adjusted paths and references to the Python version.
I created a virtualenv for Python2.7:
virtualenv -p python2.7 ~/.virtualenvs/my_site/
When I activate the virtualenv and then cd into the web site directory and run
pip install -r requirements.txt
after successfully fetching all the libs, the following error is displayed for every line in requirements.txt:
Building wheels for collected packages: MySQL-python, Pillow...etc
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for MySQL-python ... error
Complete output from command /home/my_user/.virtualenvs/my_site/bin/python2.7 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-96k9a4/MySQL-python/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d /tmp/pip-wheel-ngSbQU --python-tag cp27:
usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
or: -c --help-commands
or: -c cmd --help
error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'
I've found many other similar questions on stackexchange and other sites, and tried the fixes but no luck!
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Can't build wheel - error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'
I have pip 10.0.1
wheel IS installed (through pip install wheel), I've also run the following in my virtual env:
pip install --upgrade pip ('Requirement already up-to-date')
pip install setuptools --upgrade ('Requirement already up-to-date')
python setup.py bdist_wheel ('error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'')
What else can I look at to fix this?
Not sure why, but uninstalling wheel fixed it
I uninstalled wheel with a view to reinstalling it, but it worked without reinstalling.
pip uninstall wheel