Spotify-downloader: Failed to install spotify-downloader Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1

[jardaskera]

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Description

Hello, i just trying to install spotify-downloader on my VPS with Ubuntu 18.04 python 3 and when i get pip3 install spotdl it will run me the error in the log below. Is there any solution how to fix it? Forgive the english, im not from England. Thanks for any solutions

Log

Collecting spotdl
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/f4/3c/a1da91463427dae70dd48646cac79593bcef2037919c832cf8affaf8521f/spotdl-1.2.2-py3-none-any.whl
Collecting mutagen>=1.41.1 (from spotdl)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/08/34/e68d377ab1375af21feef9226d778ed3e6618b2f572538a85fc7c8ae9a4b/mutagen-1.43.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (212kB)
100% |################################| 215kB 1.4MB/s
Collecting spotipy>=2.4.4 (from spotdl)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/59/46/3c957255c96910a8a0e2d9c25db1de51a8676ebba01d7966bedc6e748822/spotipy-2.4.4.tar.gz
Collecting beautifulsoup4>=4.6.3 (from spotdl)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/3b/c8/a55eb6ea11cd7e5ac4bacdf92bac4693b90d3ba79268be16527555e186f0/beautifulsoup4-4.8.1-py3-none-any.whl (101kB)
100% |################################| 102kB 2.8MB/s
Collecting logzero>=1.3.1 (from spotdl)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/97/24/27295d318ea8976b12cf9cc51d82e7c7129220f6a3cc9e3443df3be8afdb/logzero-1.5.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting lyricwikia>=0.1.8 (from spotdl)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/36/82/dfce4509b6097cdacfab4510a401ef007e8314a2d1d179267efd873d1a55/lyricwikia-0.1.9.tar.gz
Collecting titlecase>=0.10.0 (from spotdl)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/1c/6b/1af08c2d82cf3bad9caf764bca8c398c78f811d0638e5cb268952f45c917/titlecase-0.12.0-py3-none-any.whl
Collecting PyYAML>=3.13 (from spotdl)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e3/e8/b3212641ee2718d556df0f23f78de8303f068fe29cdaa7a91018849582fe/PyYAML-5.1.2.tar.gz (265kB)
100% |################################| 266kB 2.5MB/s
Collecting youtube-dl>=2017.9.26 (from spotdl)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/58/38/1215e2bae8cd0b1a52621740add46cebfa8bb988a48cd61cf7cccf7c09c6/youtube_dl-2019.11.28-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.8MB)
100% |################################| 1.8MB 459kB/s
Collecting unicode-slugify>=0.1.3 (from spotdl)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/8c/ba/1a05f61c7fd72df85ae4dc1c7967a3e5a4b6c61f016e794bc7f09b2597c0/unicode-slugify-0.1.3.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/tmp/pip-build-s7gbgphz/unicode-slugify/setup.py", line 7, in
long_description=open('README.md').read(),
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 361: ordinal not in range(128)

----------------------------------------

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-s7gbgphz/unicode-slugify/
root@vps-290968:~# >

[ritiek]

Your pip seems outdated to me. What is the output of

pip3 --version

?

[valmisson]

I upgraded the setuptools wheel packages and the installation worked for me

pip3 install --upgrade setuptools wheel