No Module named setup tools during install

[cybernetix3d]

This is not an issue on your end im sure as Im a noob with python. the tool looks great.
when i try run the command from the directory i get this error (im on linux mint by the way)

:~/houdini17.0/scripts/python/Houdini_Image_Browser-master/_install$ pip install --target=%USERPROFILE%\Documents\houdini17.0\python2.7libs -r requirements.txt
Collecting scandir (from -r requirements.txt (line 1))
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/16/2a/557af1181e6b4e30254d5a6163b18f5053791ca66e251e77ab08887e8fe3/scandir-1.9.0.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
ImportError: No module named setuptools

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:~/houdini17.0/scripts/python/Houdini_Image_Browser-master/_install$ scandir/

not sure if the command should be different for linux?

[Aeoll]

Try pip install setuptools, it may be missing

[cybernetix3d]

ok i did that and it then got a bit further but still encountered errors:

error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'

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Failed building wheel for scandir
Running setup.py clean for scandir
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for Wand ... error
Complete output from command /usr/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='/tmp/pip-build-zubXvE/Wand/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/tmpk9XDN0pip-wheel- --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'

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Failed building wheel for Wand
Running setup.py clean for Wand
Failed to build scandir Wand
Installing collected packages: scandir, six, pathlib2, Wand
Running setup.py install for scandir ... error
Complete output from command /usr/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='/tmp/pip-build-zubXvE/scandir/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-g546EB-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --user --prefix= --home=/tmp/tmpbYtzwD:
/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/extension.py:133: UserWarning: Unknown Extension options: 'optional'
warnings.warn(msg)
running install
error: can't combine user with prefix, exec_prefix/home, or install_(plat)base

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Command "/usr/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='/tmp/pip-build-zubXvE/scandir/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-g546EB-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --user --prefix= --home=/tmp/tmpbYtzwD" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-zubXvE/scandir/