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ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement setup.py (from versions: none) ERROR: No matching distribution found for setup.py

ID: python/pip-could-not-find-setup-py

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80%Fix Rate
87%Confidence
0Evidence
2024-05-08First Seen

Version Compatibility

VersionStatusIntroducedDeprecatedNotes
3.x active — — —

Root Cause

The user accidentally passed a local file path (setup.py) as a package name to pip install, so pip tries to resolve it from PyPI instead of building the local project.

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中文

用户不小心将本地文件路径（setup.py）作为包名传给 pip install，导致 pip 尝试从 PyPI 解析它，而不是构建本地项目。

Workarounds

  1. 98% success 
    Run pip install . (or pip install -e . for editable mode) from the directory containing setup.py or pyproject.toml.
  2. 96% success 
    Run python -m build, then pip install dist/yourpkg-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl.

Dead Ends

Common approaches that don't work:

  1. 90% fail

    The problem is the argument, not pip's version.

  2. 92% fail

    setup.py is not a PyPI package; the index does not contain it.

  3. 85% fail

    --no-deps does not change how the argument is interpreted.