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error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'

ID: python/setuptools-install-command-invalid-command

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80%Fix Rate
85%Confidence
0Evidence
2024-04-10First Seen

Version Compatibility

VersionStatusIntroducedDeprecatedNotes
3.7 active — — —
3.8 active — — —
3.9 active — — —
3.10 active — — —
3.11 active — — —

Root Cause

The wheel package is not installed in the build environment. Modern setuptools no longer includes wheel support by default, so building a wheel distribution fails when the command is invoked.

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中文

构建环境中未安装 wheel 包。现代 setuptools 默认不再包含 wheel 支持，因此调用构建 wheel 分发包的命令时会失败。

Workarounds

  1. 95% success 
    Install the wheel package: pip install wheel, then retry python setup.py bdist_wheel.
  2. 98% success 
    Use python -m build (requires pip install build) which automatically installs wheel in an isolated environment.

Dead Ends

Common approaches that don't work:

  1. 90% fail

    Upgrading setuptools does not install the separate wheel package; the command remains unavailable.

  2. 60% fail

    setup.py install is deprecated and may still fail if wheel is needed for dependencies; it also doesn't produce a wheel.