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When trying to install fn package failed due to IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:

How To


Summary

When trying to install fn package failed due to IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:

Steps

Symptom:

While customer tying to install the fn package downloaded from our App exchange site, get the following error.

e.g

sudo pip install --upgrade fn_utilities-1.0.3.zip

Processing ./fn_utilities-1.0.3.zip
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/pip-req-build-gdZXuU/setup.py'
----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-req-build-gdZXuU/

Reason:

Those function packages are in zip format. To install it, you need to unzip it first to get the .tar.gz format file.

Solution:

unzip the zip format file to get the xx.tar.gz file, then run

sudo pip install --upgrade xxx.tar.gz

e.g.

unzip fn_utilities-1.0.3.zip
sudo pip install --upgrade fn_utilities-1.0.3.tar.gz

Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
19 April 2021

UID

ibm11163596