it's literally complaining that I don't have setup tools while I'm installing setuptools. Whatever, I'll try to install virtualenv seperately after the seutptools and pip install. And install python3-setuptools from apt.

  2020-05-31T23:11:57.6892370Z + uname -a
  2020-05-31T23:11:57.6900764Z Linux fv-az68 5.3.0-1020-azure #21~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 15 09:35:56 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
  2020-05-31T23:11:57.6901915Z + cat /etc/issue
  2020-05-31T23:11:57.6913659Z + which python
  2020-05-31T23:11:57.6913784Z Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS \n \l
  2020-05-31T23:11:57.6914578Z
  2020-05-31T23:11:57.6919544Z /usr/bin/python
  2020-05-31T23:11:57.6922254Z + which python3.7
  2020-05-31T23:11:57.6929527Z /usr/bin/python3.7
  2020-05-31T23:11:57.6932511Z + /usr/bin/python3.7 -m pip install --upgrade --user pip setuptools virtualenv
  2020-05-31T23:11:59.2763769Z Collecting pip
  2020-05-31T23:11:59.5378224Z   Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/43/84/23ed6a1796480a6f1a2d38f2802901d078266bda38388954d01d3f2e821d/pip-20.1.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.5MB)
  2020-05-31T23:11:59.8822328Z Collecting setuptools
  2020-05-31T23:12:00.2672413Z   Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/95/95/f657b6e17f00c3f35b5f68b10e46c3a43af353d8856bd57bfcfb1dbb3e92/setuptools-47.1.1-py3-none-any.whl (583kB)
  2020-05-31T23:12:00.4253404Z Collecting virtualenv
  2020-05-31T23:12:00.6021434Z   Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/57/6e/a13442adf18bada682f88f55638cd43cc7a39c3e00fdcf898ca4ceaeb682/virtualenv-20.0.21-py2.py3-none-any.whl (4.7MB)
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.1603988Z Collecting six<2,>=1.9.0 (from virtualenv)
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.2524077Z   Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ee/ff/48bde5c0f013094d729fe4b0316ba2a24774b3ff1c52d924a8a4cb04078a/six-1.15.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.2562978Z Collecting importlib-metadata<2,>=0.12; python_version < "3.8" (from virtualenv)
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.3764816Z   Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ad/e4/891bfcaf868ccabc619942f27940c77a8a4b45fd8367098955bb7e152fb1/importlib_metadata-1.6.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.3925128Z Collecting distlib<1,>=0.3.0 (from virtualenv)
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.4701767Z   Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/7d/29/694a3a4d7c0e1aef76092e9167fbe372e0f7da055f5dcf4e1313ec21d96a/distlib-0.3.0.zip (571kB)
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.8469512Z     Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.8470380Z     Traceback (most recent call last):
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.8470722Z       File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.8471692Z     ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools'
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.8472201Z     Error in sys.excepthook:
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.8472535Z     Traceback (most recent call last):
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.8473199Z       File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 63, in apport_excepthook
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.8473634Z         from apport.fileutils import likely_packaged, get_recent_crashes
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.8474301Z       File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.8474765Z         from apport.report import Report
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.8475586Z       File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 30, in <module>
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.8476017Z         import apport.fileutils
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.8476635Z       File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/fileutils.py", line 23, in <module>
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.8477048Z         from apport.packaging_impl import impl as packaging
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.8477677Z       File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/packaging_impl.py", line 24, in <module>
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.8478106Z         import apt
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.8478745Z       File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.8479180Z         import apt_pkg
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.8479700Z     ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'apt_pkg'
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.8480190Z
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.8480593Z     Original exception was:
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.8480923Z     Traceback (most recent call last):
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.8481492Z       File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.8482216Z     ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools'
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.8484324Z
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.8485113Z     ----------------------------------------
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.8711762Z Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-4pt0n61e/distlib/
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.9196812Z + /usr/bin/python3.7 -m virtualenv /tmp/kivy_venv
  2020-05-31T23:12:01.9411895Z /usr/bin/python3.7: No module named virtualenv

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Author: maltfield

build/linux/buildAppImage.sh

@@ -26,15 +26,16 @@ PYTHON_PATH='/usr/bin/python3.7'
 ###################
 
 # install os-level depends
-sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get -y install python3.7 python3-pip wget rsync fuse
+sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get -y install python3.7 python3-pip python3-setuptools wget rsync fuse
 
 uname -a
 cat /etc/issue
 which python
 which python3.7
 
 # setup a virtualenv to isolate our app's python depends
-${PYTHON_PATH} -m pip install --upgrade --user pip setuptools virtualenv
+${PYTHON_PATH} -m pip install --upgrade --user pip setuptools
+${PYTHON_PATH} -m pip install --upgrade --user virtualenv
 ${PYTHON_PATH} -m virtualenv /tmp/kivy_venv
 
 # install kivy and all other python dependencies with pip into our virtual env