Hi I’m trying to install the grpc python package via pip. It is actually intended to be installed by a build script for another setup that I am doing but the script kept on failing so I decided to do it myself.

Here is what I get:

❯ pip3 install grpc
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting grpc
  Using cached grpc-1.0.0.tar.gz (5.2 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [6 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
        File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
        File "/tmp/pip-install-_au3535m/grpc_0b2b1ce7560943288874cf94aa72394a/setup.py", line 33, in <module>
          raise RuntimeError(HINT)
      RuntimeError: Please install the official package with: pip install grpcio
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.

I have tried following the hint:

pip install grpcio

and it ran without any troubles. I also visited a plethora of forums by searching the keywords: “setup.py egg_info did not run successfully” and all suggested doing:

pip install --upgrade pip
pip install --upgrade setuptools

I tried both and here is what I get:

Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Requirement already satisfied: pip in /home/utl/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (24.0)
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (69.5.1)

And yet when I run pip install grpc afterwards it does not work and I get the same error as before. I’ve been struggling with the build script for quite some time now so any help is very appreciated.