Display error message "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools.command.test'" when instanlling

[liangrongze]

What is your question?

After reading the documentation, I am still not clear how to get X working. I tried this, this, and that.

[liangrongze]

I am new to this project. My machine's system is Debian 10. It is a new machine.

Here are my steps.

apt-get install git
Clone Fabric to your computer
git clone https://github.com/danielmiessler/fabric.git
cd fabric
apt install pipx
pipx install .

Then the following messages are displayed:

I had installed the setuptools package.

I used ChatGPT to fix it many times, but it also failed.

Can you help me?

[liangrongze]

Newest important information

It seems that their package is broken. This is because in setup.py they are doing

from setuptools.command.test import test as TestCommand
but setuptools.command.test was removed on 28 Jul 2024 (yesterday): https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/stable/history.html#v72-0-0

Here's a similar issue on the official GitHub repo: pypa/setuptools#4519

[liangrongze]

Fixed it.

First install poetry and check your setuptools version.

curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 -

export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
source ~/.bashrc # or source ~/.zshrc
poetry --version

poetry show setuptools

cd /yourpath/fabric # goto fabric directory
vim pyproject.toml # add vim pyproject.toml under [tool.poetry.dependencies]

poetry update setuptools # update setuptools to older version

poetry show setuptools

pipx install .

done !