[BUG] Getting this error in WSL when installing dash: error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'

[samcentury]

(SamVirtual) sam_century@DESKTOP-3UN3GS4:~$ pip install dash
Collecting dash
  Downloading dash-1.21.0.tar.gz (1.1 MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 1.1 MB 1.1 MB/s
Collecting Flask>=1.0.4
  Downloading Flask-2.0.1-py3-none-any.whl (94 kB)
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Collecting dash-core-components==1.17.1
  Downloading dash_core_components-1.17.1.tar.gz (3.7 MB)
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Collecting dash-html-components==1.1.4
  Downloading dash_html_components-1.1.4.tar.gz (83 kB)
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Collecting dash-table==4.12.0
  Downloading dash_table-4.12.0.tar.gz (1.8 MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 1.8 MB 1.0 MB/s
Collecting flask-compress
  Downloading Flask_Compress-1.10.1-py3-none-any.whl (7.9 kB)
Collecting future
  Downloading future-0.18.2.tar.gz (829 kB)
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Collecting plotly
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Collecting itsdangerous>=2.0
  Downloading itsdangerous-2.0.1-py3-none-any.whl (18 kB)
Collecting Werkzeug>=2.0
  Downloading Werkzeug-2.0.1-py3-none-any.whl (288 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 288 kB 1.1 MB/s
Collecting Jinja2>=3.0
  Downloading Jinja2-3.0.1-py3-none-any.whl (133 kB)
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Collecting click>=7.1.2
  Downloading click-8.0.1-py3-none-any.whl (97 kB)
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Collecting brotli
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Collecting tenacity>=6.2.0
  Downloading tenacity-8.0.1-py3-none-any.whl (24 kB)
Collecting six
  Using cached six-1.16.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (11 kB)
Collecting MarkupSafe>=2.0
  Downloading MarkupSafe-2.0.1-cp38-cp38-manylinux2010_x86_64.whl (30 kB)
Building wheels for collected packages: dash, dash-core-components, dash-html-components, dash-table, future
  Building wheel for dash (setup.py) ... error
  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
   command: /home/sam_century/SamVirtual/bin/python3 -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-z5rtt35f/dash/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-z5rtt35f/dash/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-6w7k0u7v
       cwd: /tmp/pip-install-z5rtt35f/dash/
  Complete output (6 lines):
  usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
     or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
     or: setup.py --help-commands
     or: setup.py cmd --help

  error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'
  ----------------------------------------
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for dash
  Running setup.py clean for dash
  Building wheel for dash-core-components (setup.py) ... error
  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
   command: /home/sam_century/SamVirtual/bin/python3 -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-z5rtt35f/dash-core-components/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-z5rtt35f/dash-core-components/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-s_ijaozq
       cwd: /tmp/pip-install-z5rtt35f/dash-core-components/
  Complete output (6 lines):
  usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
     or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
     or: setup.py --help-commands
     or: setup.py cmd --help

  error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'
  ----------------------------------------
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for dash-core-components
  Running setup.py clean for dash-core-components
  Building wheel for dash-html-components (setup.py) ... error
  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
   command: /home/sam_century/SamVirtual/bin/python3 -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-z5rtt35f/dash-html-components/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-z5rtt35f/dash-html-components/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-8eknopva
       cwd: /tmp/pip-install-z5rtt35f/dash-html-components/
  Complete output (6 lines):
  usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
     or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
     or: setup.py --help-commands
     or: setup.py cmd --help

  error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'
  ----------------------------------------
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for dash-html-components
  Running setup.py clean for dash-html-components
  Building wheel for dash-table (setup.py) ... error
  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
   command: /home/sam_century/SamVirtual/bin/python3 -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-z5rtt35f/dash-table/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-z5rtt35f/dash-table/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-2bdz4g4z
       cwd: /tmp/pip-install-z5rtt35f/dash-table/
  Complete output (6 lines):
  usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
     or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
     or: setup.py --help-commands
     or: setup.py cmd --help

  error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'
  ----------------------------------------
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for dash-table
  Running setup.py clean for dash-table
  Building wheel for future (setup.py) ... error
  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
   command: /home/sam_century/SamVirtual/bin/python3 -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-z5rtt35f/future/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-z5rtt35f/future/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-bijh_wve
       cwd: /tmp/pip-install-z5rtt35f/future/
  Complete output (6 lines):
  usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
     or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
     or: setup.py --help-commands
     or: setup.py cmd --help

  error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'
  ----------------------------------------
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for future
  Running setup.py clean for future
Failed to build dash dash-core-components dash-html-components dash-table future
Installing collected packages: itsdangerous, Werkzeug, MarkupSafe, Jinja2, click, Flask, dash-core-components, dash-html-components, dash-table, brotli, flask-compress, future, tenacity, six, plotly, dash
    Running setup.py install for dash-core-components ... done
    Running setup.py install for dash-html-components ... done
    Running setup.py install for dash-table ... done
    Running setup.py install for future ... done
    Running setup.py install for dash ... done
Successfully installed Flask-2.0.1 Jinja2-3.0.1 MarkupSafe-2.0.1 Werkzeug-2.0.1 brotli-1.0.9 click-8.0.1 dash-1.21.0 dash-core-components-1.17.1 dash-html-components-1.1.4 dash-table-4.12.0 flask-compress-1.10.1 future-0.18.2 itsdangerous-2.0.1 plotly-5.2.1 six-1.16.0 tenacity-8.0.1
(SamVirtual) sam_century@DESKTOP-3UN3GS4:~$

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• replace the result of pip list | grep dash below

dash                 0.42.0
dash-core-components 0.47.0
dash-html-components 0.16.0
dash-renderer        0.23.0
dash-table           3.6.0

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[anders-kiaer]

Probably related to #1440.

I think the behaviour you see is due to something along these lines:

• The dash* packages (and the future package) do not have wheels on PyPI (future is actually the most downloaded package on PyPI that does not have wheels, according to https://pythonwheels.com/).
• When pip discovers this, it tries to build wheels locally.
• Since the package wheel used for building wheels is not installed, it falls back to install directly from the source tarball on PyPI.

I.e. I think you should have a workable Dash installation at the end, despite the long list of errors? If you want to remove the errors during installation (in order to reduce the noise) you can as a work around try pip install wheel before you install Dash.

[gvwilson]

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