Installation stuck while building wheel

[tellervo99]

tried to install this and it got stuck on some bullshit about building a wheel for like 15 minutes at which point I gave up because I got places to be

[sayeedajmal]

download use this ..

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SECURITY REMINDER FROM THE WOEUSB PROJECT MAINTAINERS:

This a friendly reminder that installing a Debian package essentially gives root permission to the one who has built the package, it should only done after a full security audit of the package contents.

-- 林博仁(Buo-ren Lin)

[tim-littlefair]

I can confirm that I had similar issues building on Ubuntu 24.04.1 on a desktop machine with an inexpensive SSD and Intel Core i5-7600 CPU introduced around 2017.

Installing WoeUSB-ng using pip in a virtual environment took a little over 21 minutes, of which the majority was taken up building the wheel for wxPython. As the build requires permission to install the GUI binary to /usr/local/bin/woeusbgui I created the virtual environment under "sudo root" conditions.

I purged the pip cache, created a fresh virtual environment and did an install of wxPython only under the same conditions, the build took just under 19 minutes, so it is clear that this is an issue with wxPython, not WoeUSB-ng.

wxPython already have a closed issue relating to the build time: wxWidgets/Phoenix#2358. This issue notes that the build process on laptops can lead to heat shutdown - but where this happens it should be seen as a fault of the laptop's power management settings not the wxPython build.

I recommend this issue should be closed (but maybe with a small change to the README to warn people about the expected build time and/or heat issues on older machines).

BTW, the USB installer I built for Win10 22H2 worked flawlessly, so many thanks from me to the WoeUSB-ng team.