Alpine Linux installation don't work

[cbatista8a]

System: Linux 6.12.11-0-lts #1-Alpine SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 2025-01-24 20:02:52 x86_64 Linux
OS: Alpine 3.21.2
python: 3.12
pip: 24.3.1 from /usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip (python 3.12)
pipx: 1.7.1

Using pip

Output:

pip install -e .
error: externally-managed-environment

× This environment is externally managed
╰─> 
    The system-wide python installation should be maintained using the system
    package manager (apk) only.
    
    If the package in question is not packaged already (and hence installable via
    "apk add py3-somepackage"), please consider installing it inside a virtual
    environment, e.g.:
    
    python3 -m venv /path/to/venv
    . /path/to/venv/bin/activate
    pip install mypackage
    
    To exit the virtual environment, run:
    
    deactivate
    
    The virtual environment is not deleted, and can be re-entered by re-sourcing
    the activate file.
    
    To automatically manage virtual environments, consider using pipx (from the
    pipx package).

note: If you believe this is a mistake, please contact your Python installation or OS distribution provider. You can override this, at the risk of breaking your Python installation or OS, by passing --break-system-packages.
hint: See PEP 668 for the detailed specification.

Using pipx as suggested from pip command

pipx install -e .
Fatal error from pip prevented installation. Full pip output in file:
    /home/carlos.batista/.local/state/pipx/log/cmd_2025-02-02_00.53.56_pip_errors.log

pip seemed to fail to build package:
    opencv-python==4.10.0.84

Error installing exo from spec '/home/carlos.batista/exo'.
localserver:~/exo$ cat /home/carlos.batista/.local/state/pipx/log/cmd_2025-02-02_00.53.56_pip_errors.log
PIP STDOUT
----------
Obtaining file:///home/carlos.batista/exo
  Installing build dependencies: started
  Installing build dependencies: finished with status 'done'
  Checking if build backend supports build_editable: started
  Checking if build backend supports build_editable: finished with status 'done'
  Getting requirements to build editable: started
  Getting requirements to build editable: finished with status 'done'
  Preparing editable metadata (pyproject.toml): started
  Preparing editable metadata (pyproject.toml): finished with status 'done'
Collecting tinygrad@ git+https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad.git@ec120ce6b9ce8e4ff4b5692566a683ef240e8bc8 (from exo==0.0.1)
  Cloning https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad.git (to revision ec120ce6b9ce8e4ff4b5692566a683ef240e8bc8) to /tmp/pip-install-1zo561oo/tinygrad_5db0e395d05d45f4a3e04edab25b7cc5
  Resolved https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad.git to commit ec120ce6b9ce8e4ff4b5692566a683ef240e8bc8
  Installing build dependencies: started
  Installing build dependencies: finished with status 'done'
  Getting requirements to build wheel: started
  Getting requirements to build wheel: finished with status 'done'
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml): started
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml): finished with status 'done'
Collecting aiohttp==3.10.11 (from exo==0.0.1)
  Downloading aiohttp-3.10.11-cp312-cp312-musllinux_1_2_x86_64.whl.metadata (7.7 kB)
Collecting aiohttp_cors==0.7.0 (from exo==0.0.1)
  Downloading aiohttp_cors-0.7.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (20 kB)
Collecting aiofiles==24.1.0 (from exo==0.0.1)
  Downloading aiofiles-24.1.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (10 kB)
Collecting grpcio==1.68.0 (from exo==0.0.1)
  Downloading grpcio-1.68.0-cp312-cp312-musllinux_1_1_x86_64.whl.metadata (3.9 kB)
Collecting grpcio-tools==1.68.0 (from exo==0.0.1)
  Downloading grpcio_tools-1.68.0-cp312-cp312-musllinux_1_1_x86_64.whl.metadata (5.3 kB)
Collecting Jinja2==3.1.4 (from exo==0.0.1)
  Downloading jinja2-3.1.4-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (2.6 kB)
Collecting numpy==2.0.0 (from exo==0.0.1)
  Downloading numpy-2.0.0-cp312-cp312-musllinux_1_1_x86_64.whl.metadata (60 kB)
Collecting nuitka==2.5.1 (from exo==0.0.1)
  Downloading Nuitka-2.5.1.tar.gz (3.8 MB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 3.8/3.8 MB 8.0 MB/s eta 0:00:00
  Installing build dependencies: started
  Installing build dependencies: finished with status 'done'
  Getting requirements to build wheel: started
  Getting requirements to build wheel: finished with status 'done'
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml): started
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml): finished with status 'done'
Collecting nvidia-ml-py==12.560.30 (from exo==0.0.1)
  Downloading nvidia_ml_py-12.560.30-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (8.6 kB)
Collecting opencv-python==4.10.0.84 (from exo==0.0.1)
  Downloading opencv-python-4.10.0.84.tar.gz (95.1 MB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 95.1/95.1 MB 5.1 MB/s eta 0:00:00
  Installing build dependencies: started
  Installing build dependencies: finished with status 'done'
  Getting requirements to build wheel: started
  Getting requirements to build wheel: finished with status 'done'

PIP STDERR
----------
  Running command git clone --filter=blob:none --quiet https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad.git /tmp/pip-install-1zo561oo/tinygrad_5db0e395d05d45f4a3e04edab25b7cc5
  Running command git rev-parse -q --verify 'sha^ec120ce6b9ce8e4ff4b5692566a683ef240e8bc8'
  Running command git fetch -q https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad.git ec120ce6b9ce8e4ff4b5692566a683ef240e8bc8
  Running command git checkout -q ec120ce6b9ce8e4ff4b5692566a683ef240e8bc8
ERROR: Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/base_command.py", line 106, in _run_wrapper
    status = _inner_run()
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/base_command.py", line 97, in _inner_run
    return self.run(options, args)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/req_command.py", line 67, in wrapper
    return func(self, options, args)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/commands/install.py", line 386, in run
    requirement_set = resolver.resolve(
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/resolver.py", line 95, in resolve
    result = self._result = resolver.resolve(
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/resolvelib/resolvers.py", line 546, in resolve
    state = resolution.resolve(requirements, max_rounds=max_rounds)
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/resolvelib/resolvers.py", line 427, in resolve
    failure_causes = self._attempt_to_pin_criterion(name)
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/resolvelib/resolvers.py", line 239, in _attempt_to_pin_criterion
    criteria = self._get_updated_criteria(candidate)
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/resolvelib/resolvers.py", line 230, in _get_updated_criteria
    self._add_to_criteria(criteria, requirement, parent=candidate)
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/resolvelib/resolvers.py", line 173, in _add_to_criteria
    if not criterion.candidates:
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/resolvelib/structs.py", line 156, in __bool__
    return bool(self._sequence)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/found_candidates.py", line 174, in __bool__
    return any(self)
           ^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/found_candidates.py", line 162, in <genexpr>
    return (c for c in iterator if id(c) not in self._incompatible_ids)
                       ^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/found_candidates.py", line 53, in _iter_built
    candidate = func()
                ^^^^^^
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/factory.py", line 187, in _make_candidate_from_link
    base: Optional[BaseCandidate] = self._make_base_candidate_from_link(
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/factory.py", line 233, in _make_base_candidate_from_link
    self._link_candidate_cache[link] = LinkCandidate(
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/candidates.py", line 304, in __init__
    super().__init__(
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/candidates.py", line 159, in __init__
    self.dist = self._prepare()
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/candidates.py", line 236, in _prepare
    dist = self._prepare_distribution()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/candidates.py", line 315, in _prepare_distribution
    return preparer.prepare_linked_requirement(self._ireq, parallel_builds=True)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/operations/prepare.py", line 527, in prepare_linked_requirement
    return self._prepare_linked_requirement(req, parallel_builds)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/operations/prepare.py", line 642, in _prepare_linked_requirement
    dist = _get_prepared_distribution(
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/operations/prepare.py", line 72, in _get_prepared_distribution
    abstract_dist.prepare_distribution_metadata(
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/distributions/sdist.py", line 56, in prepare_distribution_metadata
    self._install_build_reqs(finder)
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/distributions/sdist.py", line 126, in _install_build_reqs
    build_reqs = self._get_build_requires_wheel()
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/distributions/sdist.py", line 103, in _get_build_requires_wheel
    return backend.get_requires_for_build_wheel()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_internal/utils/misc.py", line 702, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
    return super().get_requires_for_build_wheel(config_settings=cs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_impl.py", line 196, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
    return self._call_hook(
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/carlos.batista/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_impl.py", line 402, in _call_hook
    raise BackendUnavailable(
pip._vendor.pyproject_hooks._impl.BackendUnavailable: Cannot import 'setuptools.build_meta'

[TanishkBansode]

maybe try

1. using python3 -m venv /path/to/venv
. /path/to/venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .
2. and also try manually installing setuptools by pip install setuptools