pip install problems

[MikeTam1021]

Not sure who tried the pip install. It is not working correctly on my system. Here is a screen shot of the error. MacOS High Sierra 10.13.2.

I'm a good programmer, I could probably fix this myself but I am new to cryptocurrencies and feel it is a better use of my time to survey the landscape than fix bugs. Would like this issue to be resolved before I invest more time in learning this framework

[FrancisJen]

I have the same problem

[ghost]

I have this error as well

[arseneeth]

same issue, any updates? have someone solved it?

[sbeaumont]

Same here. install is broken on mac...?

[DronyPandey]

To state the cliche - I too have the same problem. Checked the python version - it is 3.6 all right. It appears that the install is indeed broken. The only thing I can point out is that the error that I get is during a different collect module -

Collecting gipc==0.4.0 (from pyethapp)
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/df/68/317f273ecff80ab2df856fab40d218b64674e7b043182235c7e9e8b49244/gipc-0.4.0.zip
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/private/var/folders/xr/nxn_0kk17yq962z9rxhxfctr0000gn/T/pip-install-h5k0t_mw/gipc/setup.py", line 22, in <module>
        long_description=open("README.rst").read().decode('utf-8'),
    AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'
    
    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /
/private/var/folders/xr/nxn_0kk17yq962z9rxhxfctr0000gn/T/pip-install-h5k0t_mw/gipc/

It could be an issue in the script where the directory nxn_0kk17yq962z9rxhxfctr0000gn/T/pip-install-h5k0t_mw/gipc/ has not been created as I could navigate up to /private/var/folders/xr

[maxhallhatesm3]

@MikeTam1021 @FrancisJen @HenrikMoe @arsenyjin @sbeaumont @DronyPandey

Did a solution ever come about for this issue? It continues for me, I detailed my errors in my new issue ticket #298.

Is there a lack of pyethapp support due to the rising prominence of py-evm?