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A program I am trying to install requires the installation of PyQt5 5.15.0 , which gives me this error. The odd thing is that the installation works fine for the latest version of PyQt5 (5.15.2), but this program requires 5.15.0 specifically.
Command Output:
Collecting PyQt5==5.15.0
Using cached PyQt5-5.15.0.tar.gz (3.3 MB)
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
Preparing wheel metadata ... error
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: 'c:\users\mshal\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\python.exe' 'C:\Users\mshal\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pep517\_in_process.py' prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel 'C:\Users\mshal\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp41s11ev6'
cwd: C:\Users\mshal\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-sfw90hvc\pyqt5_e2cc46859b554da7b84798abae5378ba
Complete output (31 lines):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\mshal\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pep517\_in_process.py", line 126, in prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel
hook = backend.prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel
AttributeError: module 'sipbuild.api' has no attribute 'prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel'
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\mshal\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pep517\_in_process.py", line 280, in <module>
main()
File "C:\Users\mshal\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pep517\_in_process.py", line 263, in main
json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
File "C:\Users\mshal\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pep517\_in_process.py", line 130, in prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel
return _get_wheel_metadata_from_wheel(backend, metadata_directory,
File "C:\Users\mshal\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pep517\_in_process.py", line 159, in _get_wheel_metadata_from_wheel
whl_basename = backend.build_wheel(metadata_directory, config_settings)
File "C:\Users\mshal\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-nnx_yu09\overlay\Lib\site-packages\sipbuild\api.py", line 51, in build_wheel
project = AbstractProject.bootstrap('pep517')
File "C:\Users\mshal\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-nnx_yu09\overlay\Lib\site-packages\sipbuild\abstract_project.py", line 83, in bootstrap
project.setup(pyproject, tool, tool_description)
File "C:\Users\mshal\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-nnx_yu09\overlay\Lib\site-packages\sipbuild\project.py", line 479, in setup
self.apply_user_defaults(tool)
File "project.py", line 62, in apply_user_defaults
super().apply_user_defaults(tool)
File "C:\Users\mshal\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-nnx_yu09\overlay\Lib\site-packages\pyqtbuild\project.py", line 79, in apply_user_defaults
super().apply_user_defaults(tool)
File "C:\Users\mshal\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-nnx_yu09\overlay\Lib\site-packages\sipbuild\project.py", line 225, in apply_user_defaults
self.builder.apply_user_defaults(tool)
File "C:\Users\mshal\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-nnx_yu09\overlay\Lib\site-packages\pyqtbuild\builder.py", line 66, in apply_user_defaults
raise PyProjectOptionException('qmake',
sipbuild.pyproject.PyProjectOptionException
----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: 'c:\users\mshal\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\python.exe' 'C:\Users\mshal\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pep517\_in_process.py' prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel 'C:\Users\mshal\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp41s11ev6' Check the logs for full command output.
I am on the latest version of pip. Any ideas on the root cause of this issue?

What helped me is upgrading pip from 20.2.3 to the latest one (in my case 21.1.1)

For Mac/Homebrew users.
The answer by #the-x is leading in the right direction. On a Mac with QT5 installed via Homebrew the qmake binary just needs to be added to the path. This can be achieved through
export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/qt5/bin:$PATH"
(of course depending on where the homebrew files are installed)

Running on arm with python3.6 (ubuntu18 on nvidia Xavier):
sudo apt install qt5-default

For MacOS users.
I am on Apple M1 silicon using Python 3.9.8. What worked for me was #Apaul's comment in the original question section. Install pyqt5-sip prior to pyqt5.
I also have an Intel Mac and on that machine, I do not need to do this.

Checking the binaries that PyQt5 provides in pypi for version 5.15.0 I see that it does not provide the binaries for python3.9 in windows, so pip is trying to compile using the source code which is complicated and can generate several dependency problems (for example you must have Qt 5.15 installed, etc). So my recommendation is to install a more updated version of PyQt5, for example 5.15.2 since if it provides the binaries for python3.9 on windows, in addition to being a wrapper of an LTS version of Qt then it will have solved several bugs.
python -m pip install PyQt5==5.15.2
Another solution is to use python3.8 instead of python3.9 so that you can install pyqt5 5.15.0 from pypi without problems.

Upgrading your pip enables you to install PyQt5. Personally, I had the same issue while installing PyQt6 and I upgraded my pip, and everything installed perfectly. I think both python and pip versions play an important role in installing PyQt so make sure you have later versions.
This is the command I used in Linux:
pip install --upgrade pip

Combining several answers on this question: On an Apple M1 Pro Macbook with macOS Ventura 13.0.1, with Homebrew 3.6.17 and python 3.11.0 the following commands fixed it for me (no sudo):
brew install qt5
export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/qt5/bin:$PATH"
python3 -m ensurepip --default-pip
pip3 install pyqt5-sip
pip3 install pyqt5 --config-settings --confirm-license= --verbose
That last step calls qmake to compile all of Qt on your M1 and takes many minutes to complete, be patient and let it finish.

Since qt5-default was not available, I installed qt5-default's dependencies
sudo apt-get install qtbase5-dev qtchooser qt5-qmake qtbase5-dev-tools
after that I installed pyqt5 via apt-get first and afterwards via pip
sudo apt-get install pyqt5-dev
pip install pyqt5
now wheel seems to work
side-note:
I am not sure if sudo apt-get install pyqt5-dev is even necessary

The error message thrown here is misleading - it's not an issue with a sipbuild.api attribute. Indeed, in this case program qmake is missing, see last line of the Python traceback. Have a look if it's installed on your system and add it to your PATH variable. Otherwise, install it. On Linux this would be done with
sudo apt-get install qt5-qmake

I had this problem on my M1 Mac using Python 3.9.12 when I was trying to install a library: pip install pixellib.
The first thing I did was: pip install pixellib --verbose to see the whole log, and there I noticed that PyQt5 was waiting for an input. So then I found someone else with that issue, and used pip install pyqt5 --config-settings --confirm-license= --verbose which took some time to compile, but worked!

I could not get any of the above solutions to work but I managed to get it working using python3.9, PyQt5=5.15.2, pip=22.0.2 and sip=6.5.0 by using sudo apt-get install PyQt5. If you need it in a virtual environment, you can manually copy the PyQt5 folder from your default /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages to the site-packages folder in your virtual environment.

To all those that are struggling with Apple M1 installation, here is a working solution, specifically addressing the problem of installing the pixellib library that depends on PyQt5 but you can apply it equally to other libs:
PyQt5 is not supported on Apple M1, it needs qt6: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/o4w1ut/comment/h2jele3/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 , https://www.qt.io/product/qt6
this means you need to install PyQt6: python3 -m pip install PyQt6
go to the lib you need, in my case pixellib: https://pypi.org/project/pixellib/#files and
download the wheel file
get the wheel tool: pip install wheel
unpack the wheel wheel unpack pixellib-0.7.1-py3-none-any.whl
Change its dependency of PyQt5 to PyQt6
edit pixellib-0.7.1/pixellib-0.7.1.dist-info/METADATA
pyQt5 => pyQt6
pack it back wheel pack pixellib-0.7.1
install it: pip install pixellib-0.7.1-py3-none-any.whl
test in python: `
# should work
import pixellib
P.S. thanks to Terra and ChaOS for supporting work on the project underlying this report.

I finally managed to make it works on M1/M2 Macbook Pro.
None of these answers worked for me, so I looked at brew to install pyqt.
The following command will install pyqt5 via brew:
brew install pyqt#5
Then it just worked.

This can be resolved by switching to an environment with Python >= 3.8

FileNotFoundError Installing PyQt5

I'm been trying to install PyQt and I can't get past the below error. I've read a few posts suggesting that I should upgrade PIP, setup_tools, and ez_install. I've tried all of that with no luck. Any tips?
c:\Python27>pip install PyQt5_gpl-5.10.tar.gz
Processing c:\python27\pyqt5_gpl-5.10.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\lib\tokenize.py", line 452, in open
buffer = _builtin_open(filename, 'rb')
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Users\\JAME~1.KRK\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-0u8uht47-build\\setup.py'
----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\JAME~1.KRK\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-0u8uht47-build\
Same thing in 3.6:
c:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32>pip install PyQt5_gpl-5.10.tar.gz
Processing c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\pyqt5_gpl-5.10.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\lib\tokenize.py", line 452, in open
buffer = _builtin_open(filename, 'rb')
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Users\\JAME~1.KRK\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-f9s0_6sp-build\\setup.py'
----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in
C:\Users\JAM~1.KRK\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-f9s0_6sp-build\

I just encountered the same issue and find clue in the topic. It has been solved by pip upgrade.
Here is the detail:
1. Issue case:
pip3 install pyqt5.
failed and report FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
2. OS environment:
Win10 64x WSL2
3. Python environment
python 3.7.3
pip version 19.X (not write down)
Solved steps:
pip3 install --upgrade pip
pip3 install --user PyQt5
sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt install libgl1-mesa-glx -y
now. It works.
Root cause:
a. pyqt
in wsl, pip old version download wrong package.
pip (v20.x) download below version
PyQt5-5.15.2-5.15.2-cp35.cp36.cp37.cp38.cp39-abi3-manylinux2014_x86_64.whl
b. libgl1.so1.
not such lib need install by apt intall
Hope my experience can help you.

On PyPI it seems PyQT5 is for python 3.5 or higher only. Not python 2.7. Use an earlier version of PyQt or a newer version of python (Python 2.7 isn't supported beyond 2020, you'll need to move sooner or later).

You appear to be trying to make pip install the PyQt5 source archive. PyQt doesn't use the usual setup.py script that many python packages use and cannot be built and installed from source with pip. Furthermore, the .tar.gz format is intended for linux systems and Windows provides no native support. I am not sure whether pip on Windows would even handle the format. There is a .zip version provided for Windows users.
You need to either extract the archive and build from source, or allow pip to download and install the package itself with pip install PyQt5.
If you are using Python < 3.5, you will have to build from source (or install PyQt4 instead), as there are no official builds provided for these versions of Python. For everything else the pip command above should be enough.

you need to use Python >= 3.5 or try the older PyQt4

on debianoids there is a nice way out of this bug
apt install python3-pyqt5

XGBoost installation failing

I'm trying to install XGBoost on my AWS Ubuntu machine.
I followed the instructions and installed GCC and cmake. However, when I write
pip install xgboost
I get the following error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-build-sorzhu8y/xgboost/setup.py", line 29, in <module>
LIB_PATH = libpath['find_lib_path']()
File "/tmp/pip-build-sorzhu8y/xgboost/xgboost/libpath.py", line 45, in find_lib_path
'List of candidates:\n' + ('\n'.join(dll_path)))
XGBoostLibraryNotFound: Cannot find XGBoost Libarary in the candicate path, did you install compilers and run build.sh in root path?
List of candidates:
/tmp/pip-build-sorzhu8y/xgboost/xgboost/libxgboost.so
/tmp/pip-build-sorzhu8y/xgboost/xgboost/../../lib/libxgboost.so
/tmp/pip-build-sorzhu8y/xgboost/xgboost/./lib/libxgboost.so
----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-sorzhu8y/xgboost/
Any ideas what could be causing this?

According to python documentation:
This module makes available standard errno system symbols. The value
of each symbol is the corresponding integer value. The names and
descriptions are borrowed from linux/include/errno.h, which should be
pretty all-inclusive.
So Error code 1 is defined in errno.h and means Operation not permitted.
Your setuptools do not appear to be installed.
So, try to upgrade python tools
pip install --upgrade setuptools
If it's already up to date, check that the module ez_setup is not missing. If it is, then
pip install ez_setup
Then try again
pip install unroll
If it's still not working, maybe pip didn't install/upgrade setup_tools properly so you might want to try
easy_install -U setuptools
and again
pip install unroll
for me was resolved after upgrading pip
let us know about you..

There are instruction in the site: http://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/latest/build.html
First:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost
cd xgboost
make -j4
Then:
cd python-package
sudo python setup.py install

Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement <package>

I'm installing several Python packages in Ubuntu 12.04 using the following requirements.txt file:
numpy>=1.8.2,<2.0.0
matplotlib>=1.3.1,<2.0.0
scipy>=0.14.0,<1.0.0
astroML>=0.2,<1.0
scikit-learn>=0.14.1,<1.0.0
rpy2>=2.4.3,<3.0.0
and these two commands:
$ pip install --download=/tmp -r requirements.txt
$ pip install --user --no-index --find-links=/tmp -r requirements.txt
(the first one downloads the packages and the second one installs them).
The process is frequently stopped with the error:
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement <package> (from matplotlib<2.0.0,>=1.3.1->-r requirements.txt (line 2)) (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for <package> (from matplotlib<2.0.0,>=1.3.1->-r requirements.txt (line 2))
which I fix manually with:
pip install --user <package>
and then run the second pip install command again.
But that only works for that particular package. When I run the second pip install command again, the process is stopped now complaining about another required package and I need to repeat the process again, ie: install the new required package manually (with the command above) and then run the second pip install command.
So far I've had to manually install six, pytz, nose, and now it's complaining about needing mock.
Is there a way to tell pip to automatically install all needed dependencies so I don't have to do it manually one by one?
Add: This only happens in Ubuntu 12.04 BTW. In Ubuntu 14.04 the pip install commands applied on the requirements.txt file work without issues.

Although it doesn't really answers this specific question. Others got the same error message with this mistake.
For those who like me initial forgot the -r: Use pip install -r requirements.txt the -r is essential for the command.
The original answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/42876654/10093070

I had installed python3 but my python in /usr/bin/python was still the old 2.7 version
This worked (<pkg> was pyserial in my case):
python3 -m pip install <pkg>

This approach (having all dependencies in a directory and not downloading from an index) only works when the directory contains all packages. The directory should therefore contain all dependencies but also all packages that those dependencies depend on (e.g., six, pytz etc).
You should therefore manually include these in requirements.txt (so that the first step downloads them explicitly) or you should install all packages using PyPI and then pip freeze > requirements.txt to store the list of all packages needed.

Just a reminder to whom google this error and come here.
Let's say I get this error:
$ python3 example.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "example.py", line 7, in <module>
import aalib
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'aalib'
Since it mentions aalib, I was thought to try aalib:
$ python3.8 -m pip install aalib
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement aalib (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for aalib
But it actually wrong package name, ensure pip search(service disabled at the time of writing), or google, or search on pypi site to get the accurate package name:
Then install successfully:
$ python3.8 -m pip install python-aalib
Collecting python-aalib
Downloading python-aalib-0.3.2.tar.gz (14 kB)
...
As pip --help stated:
$ python3.8 -m pip --help
...
-v, --verbose Give more output. Option is additive, and can be used up to 3 times.
To have a systematic way to figure out the root causes instead of rely on luck, you can append -vvv option of pip command to see details, e.g.:
$ python3.8 -u -m pip install aalib -vvv
User install by explicit request
Created temporary directory: /tmp/pip-ephem-wheel-cache-b3ghm9eb
Created temporary directory: /tmp/pip-req-tracker-ygwnj94r
Initialized build tracking at /tmp/pip-req-tracker-ygwnj94r
Created build tracker: /tmp/pip-req-tracker-ygwnj94r
Entered build tracker: /tmp/pip-req-tracker-ygwnj94r
Created temporary directory: /tmp/pip-install-jfurrdbb
1 location(s) to search for versions of aalib:
* https://pypi.org/simple/aalib/
Fetching project page and analyzing links: https://pypi.org/simple/aalib/
Getting page https://pypi.org/simple/aalib/
Found index url https://pypi.org/simple
Getting credentials from keyring for https://pypi.org/simple
Getting credentials from keyring for pypi.org
Looking up "https://pypi.org/simple/aalib/" in the cache
Request header has "max_age" as 0, cache bypassed
Starting new HTTPS connection (1): pypi.org:443
https://pypi.org:443 "GET /simple/aalib/ HTTP/1.1" 404 13
[hole] Status code 404 not in (200, 203, 300, 301)
Could not fetch URL https://pypi.org/simple/aalib/: 404 Client Error: Not Found for url: https://pypi.org/simple/aalib/ - skipping
Given no hashes to check 0 links for project 'aalib': discarding no candidates
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement aalib (from versions: none)
Cleaning up...
Removed build tracker: '/tmp/pip-req-tracker-ygwnj94r'
ERROR: No matching distribution found for aalib
Exception information:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/cli/base_command.py", line 186, in _main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/commands/install.py", line 357, in run
resolver.resolve(requirement_set)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/legacy_resolve.py", line 177, in resolve
discovered_reqs.extend(self._resolve_one(requirement_set, req))
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/legacy_resolve.py", line 333, in _resolve_one
abstract_dist = self._get_abstract_dist_for(req_to_install)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/legacy_resolve.py", line 281, in _get_abstract_dist_for
req.populate_link(self.finder, upgrade_allowed, require_hashes)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/req/req_install.py", line 249, in populate_link
self.link = finder.find_requirement(self, upgrade)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/_internal/index/package_finder.py", line 926, in find_requirement
raise DistributionNotFound(
pip._internal.exceptions.DistributionNotFound: No matching distribution found for aalib
From above log, there is pretty obvious the URL https://pypi.org/simple/aalib/ 404 not found. Then you can guess the possible reasons which cause that 404, i.e. wrong package name. Another thing is I can modify relevant python files of pip modules to further debug with above log. To edit .whl file, you can use wheel command to unpack and pack.

After 2 hours of searching, I found a way to fix it with just one line of command. You need to know the version of the package (Just search up PACKAGE version).
Command:
python3 -m pip install --pre --upgrade PACKAGE==VERSION.VERSION.VERSION

Below command worked for me -
python -m pip install flask

Not always, but in some cases the package already exists. For example - getpass. It is not listed by "pip list" but it can be imported and used:
If I try to pip install getpass I get the following error:
"Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement getpass"

Try installing flask through the powershell using the following command.
pip install --isolated Flask
This will allow installation to avoide environment variables and user configuration.

If you facing this issue at the workplace. This might be the solution for you.
pip install -U <package_name> --user --proxy=<your proxy>

Pip install from pypi.org.
pip install -U -i https://pypi.org/simple package

One possible error, pip package requires python intepreter which you are not using.
I ran into the same problem, it occurred only when I ran commands from my Docker image (or Dockerfile). Finally many hours later I managed to solve it by updating my python intepreter. Pointed out that my pip-package required python>=3,7 but my Docker image was using python 3.6.
Tip: To check out if you have similar problem, just check pip package requirements and your python version. Private pip package intepreter requirements are wrote down inside setup.py or setup.cfg. Public pip packages are usuially hosted in pypi.org where you can just check intepreter requirements with your browser. To check your python intepreter version just write for example python --version or python3 --version in your console
General problem description
As other answers point out there can also be other requirements that you are not satisfying and that is why pip can not found suitable package version for you. All the requirements are wrote down in pip package documentation and can be easily readed from https://pypi.org/project/graphene-django/your-package

I got this error while installing awscli on Windows 10 in anaconda (python 3.7).
While troubleshooting, I went to the answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/49991357/6862405 and then to https://stackoverflow.com/a/54582701/6862405. Finally found that I need to install the libraries PyOpenSSL, cryptography, enum34, idna and ipaddress. After installing these (using simply pip install command), I was able to install awscli.

When I lost my internet connection, I had this error.

Since it's a pretty annoying problem that may stuck beginners for a long period of time, here I write a complete guild.
if you are running pip install PACKAGE or python -m pip install PACKAGE, and a no matching version found error reported, here's how to solve the problem.
search your package on browser, for example my package is pycypto, here I search pycypto pypi
find your package, open the link on pypi, click download file
open a python shell, import any of your installed package, for example, I have installed Pillow before.
>>> import PIL
>>> PIL.__path__
['/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/canvas/src/zzd/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PIL']
PACKAGE.__path__ function will gives you the side packages path where all packages should go into.
PLUS:
if you have no idea what packages you installed before, run pip list to get a list of installed packages.
after we obtain the path, open a shell, cd to the path
cd /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/canvas/src/zzd/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/
open
unzip the downloaded file, drag it into site-packages.
cd into the downloaded directory, and run setup.py to install
cd pycrypto-2.6.1
python setup.py install
Then you should be able to import and use the package in python.

Same error in slightly different circumstances, on MacOs. Apparently setuptools versions past 45 can expose some issues and this command got me past it:
pip3 install setuptools==45

If the package is local, don't miss the relative path.
E.g.
pip install ./<pkg>
finally worked in my case, while
pip install <pkg>
yielded:
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement <pkg> (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for <pkg>

I had a problem installing pandas-1.4.3, and the problem was my python patch version. pandas-1.4.3 required python version 3.8.13 and did not work with 3.8.9:
python install -r requirements.txt # or pip install pandas==1.4.3
# -> Could not find a version that satisfies...
conda activate my_project # creates a virtual env for a new python version
conda install python=3.8.13 # installing the new python version
python --version # displays 3.8.13
pip install -r python/requirements.txt
# -> pandas installed as expected

Search in google if you find some other version of that package available
use that for example
I was getting errors using the glob so I used glob2 instead

I can't install python package, although required libraries exist

I am trying to install a Python package and I get a dependency error but I am sure I have fulfilled that requirement.
It says that it can't find libdickinson.so, but this library is already installed (system wide) and its files are in /user/local/lib/. What am I doing wrong?
This is my console output:
(iwidget)chris#mint-desktop ~ $ pip install pthelma
Downloading/unpacking pthelma
Downloading pthelma-0.7.2.tar.gz (50kB): 50kB downloaded
Running setup.py egg_info for package pthelma
libdickinson.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Please make sure you have installed dickinson
(see http://dickinson.readthedocs.org/).
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
libdickinson.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Please make sure you have installed dickinson
(see http://dickinson.readthedocs.org/).
----------------------------------------
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /home/chris/.virtualenvs/iwidget/build/pthelma
Storing complete log in /home/chris/.pip/pip.log
(iwidget)chris#mint-desktop ~ $ ls /usr/local/lib/
libdickinson.a libdickinson.la libdickinson.so libdickinson.so.0 libdickinson.so.0.0.0 python2.7/ python3.2/ site_ruby/
(iwidget)chris#mint-desktop ~ $

Also try the above command as superuser:
sudo pip install pthelma
and just go through the thread given below:
Why can't Python find shared objects that are in directories in sys.path?

Try building it yourself and installing from the GIT repo:
git clone https://github.com/openmeteo/pthelma.git
Also, try running it as super user (pip).
sudo pip install pthelma
It looks like it can't see the libdickinson.so file but if you're confident it's installed and setup correctly you can, as I said, try cloning the source and building it that way.