[Bug]: Install error Cannot unpack file /tmp/pip-unpack-_d5u6dgt/crystaltoolkit

[cedricrocha]

Code snippet

pip install https://github.com/materialsproject/crystaltoolkit
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting https://github.com/materialsproject/crystaltoolkit
  Downloading https://github.com/materialsproject/crystaltoolkit
     / 406.0 kB 27.5 kB/s 0:00:13
  ERROR: Cannot unpack file /tmp/pip-unpack-_d5u6dgt/crystaltoolkit (downloaded from /tmp/pip-req-build-nqy_xmc1, content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8); cannot detect archive format
ERROR: Cannot determine archive format of /tmp/pip-req-build-nqy_xmc1

What happened?

Hello

I'm trying to install crystaltoolkit from pip install and getting errors like

ERROR: Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/cedric/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/init.py", line 3070, in _dep_map
return self.__dep_map
File "/home/cedric/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/init.py", line 2863, in getattr
raise AttributeError(attr)
AttributeError: _DistInfoDistribution__dep_map

So I tried instead installing from github.

pip install https://github.com/materialsproject/crystaltoolkit
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting https://github.com/materialsproject/crystaltoolkit
Downloading https://github.com/materialsproject/crystaltoolkit
/ 406.0 kB 27.5 kB/s 0:00:13
ERROR: Cannot unpack file /tmp/pip-unpack-_d5u6dgt/crystaltoolkit (downloaded from /tmp/pip-req-build-nqy_xmc1, content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8); cannot detect archive format
ERROR: Cannot determine archive format of /tmp/pip-req-build-nqy_xmc1

Can you please help me?

Version

Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS

Which OS?

• MacOS
• Windows
• Linux

Log output

ERROR: Cannot unpack file /tmp/pip-unpack-_d5u6dgt/crystaltoolkit (downloaded from /tmp/pip-req-build-nqy_xmc1, content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8); cannot detect archive format
ERROR: Cannot determine archive format of /tmp/pip-req-build-nqy_xmc1

[cedricrocha]

Cannot install crystal-toolkit.

[mkhorton]

Hi Cedric, happy to try and help you. I suspect this might be more likely related to your system setup than a bug.

Can you tell me what version of Python you're using, if you're using conda or other package managers, and if you've managed to install other scientific Python software ok?

[cedricrocha]

Hi Cedric, happy to try and help you. I suspect this might be more likely related to your system setup than a bug.

Can you tell me what version of Python you're using, if you're using conda or other package managers, and if you've managed to install other scientific Python software ok?

Hello @mkhorton. Thanks for your answer! I am running python3.8 and I use pip 24.2. Here's might be the catch: I had just installed pymatgen when I got a message asking me to update pip. So I did and after that I could not install crystal-toolkit. So I tried downgrading to pip 24.1. Same error. I tried a beta version of pip. Still no success. Pymatgen did install and is operating. I am running Ubuntu Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS. Thanks!