Deeptrack package installation problem

[shuaiting-Y]

When I use pip install deeptrack command, the following error occurs.

When I run !pip install deeptrack in jupyter, the following error occurs.

How can I solve the problem of not being able to install the library?

[BenjaminMidtvedt]

@shuaiting-Y Which os and python version are you using? It seems like setuptools is not available. Can you try first installing pip install setuptools?

[Nanrrrr]

I also encountered a similar issue while installing DeepTrack, and my Python version is 3.10.1. I also tried installing Python in versions 3.8 and 3.9 but still encountered errors

[BenjaminMidtvedt]

@Nanrrrr this seems to be an issue with the dependency lazy-import, which decided to load the README file during installation. Which OS are you using?

[Nanrrrr]

@Nanrrrr this seems to be an issue with the dependency lazy-import, which decided to load the README file during installation. Which OS are you using?

Thanks for your reply, my OS is Windows 10

[giovannivolpe]

@Nanrrrr are you trying to install from pip or directly from the github repository?

This issue occurred if you were trying to install it from the GitHub repository at some point because of a non-unicode font in the readme file.

[Nanrrrr]

@giovannivolpe, I attempted to install it in three different ways. Firstly, I used the command "pip install deeptrack". Secondly, I tried "pip install git+https://github.com/DeepTrackAI/DeepTrack2". And thirdly, I downloaded the code to my PC terminal via GitHub and then proceeded to install it on the PowerShell command line. Regrettably, all of these three methods ended up reporting the exact same error as demonstrated above.

[giovannivolpe]

@Nanrrrr this is strange as we never encountered this issue and we can't reproduce it. However, could you try to install it from the downloaded version erasing the readme file?

[Nanrrrr]

@giovannivolpe Thank you for your reply. I tried to solve it again today because Python 3.7 version uses GBK encoding by default in Windows 10 and needs to be changed to UTF-8. Add PYTHONUTF8=1 to the global variables of the system, or enter set PYTHONUTF8=1 directly in cmd. Then the encoding issue was resolved and Deeptrack was successfully installed