Bigchaindb: I cannot install bigchaindb..

[jindragon]

I installed many times with these commands.

source /etc/lsb-release && echo "deb http://download.rethinkdb.com/apt $DISTRIB_CODENAME main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rethinkdb.list

wget -qO- https://download.rethinkdb.com/apt/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install rethinkdb

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install g++ python3-dev

sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools

sudo easy_install3 pip

sudo pip install bigchaindb

sudo pip install --upgrade bigchaindb

But recently, I tried to install and there was an error message.

So i tried with
pip install bigchaindb==0.1.5
but also failed.

How can I fix it?

[r-marques]

BigchainDB v0.1.5 required libffi-dev so you would need to also do apt-get install libffi-dev before installing bigchaindb.

For the latest version it seems to be because the setuptools installed from the repos is a really old version. Can you try doing pip install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools before installing bigchaindb.

We updated the docs in this pull request #276

[vrde]

@jindragon before updating setuptools, can you please run this in a terminal:

 $ python3 -c 'import setuptools; print(setuptools.__version__)'

[vrde]

@jindragon would be amazing if you can try #279 before upgrading setuptools. The pull request checks if the version of setuptools you are using supports the ~ operator, and throws a human-friendly error if not.

[jindragon]

I checked it is 21.0.0.
I couldn't check previous version..

[vrde]

hey @jindragon, after applying @r-marques suggestions, are you able to install BigchainDB?

[jindragon]

Yes! Thanks very much!