Install ERROR: Cannot set --home and --prefix together

[malikmajai]

Description

I am getting the error even I am not using --home or --prefix while installing a git repo!

Collecting git+https://github.com/mccoderpy/discord.py-message-components.git@developer
  Cloning https://github.com/mccoderpy/discord.py-message-components.git (to revision developer) to c:\users\rizwan computers\appdata\local\temp\pip-req-build-cajtzut0
  Running command git clone --filter=blob:none --quiet https://github.com/mccoderpy/discord.py-message-components.git 'C:\Users\Rizwan computers\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-req-build-cajtzut0'
  Running command git checkout -b developer --track origin/developer
  branch 'developer' set up to track 'origin/developer'.
  Switched to a new branch 'developer'
  Resolved https://github.com/mccoderpy/discord.py-message-components.git to commit cc5391b50830c3169388d80979fcd4ea7919d273
  Installing build dependencies ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × pip subprocess to install build dependencies did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [8 lines of output]
      Collecting setuptools>=40.8.0
        Using cached setuptools-62.3.2-py3-none-any.whl (1.2 MB)
      Collecting wheel
        Using cached wheel-0.37.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (35 kB)
      Installing collected packages: wheel, setuptools
      ERROR: Cannot set --home and --prefix together
      WARNING: You are using pip version 22.0.4; however, version 22.1 is available.
      You should consider upgrading via the 'C:\Users\Rizwan computers\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× pip subprocess to install build dependencies did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
WARNING: You are using pip version 22.0.4; however, version 22.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'C:\Users\Rizwan computers\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.

Expected behavior

A successful installation! Like I can install on my other pc via pip.

pip version

22.0.4

Python version

3.9.12

OS

Windows

How to Reproduce

python -m pip install git+https://github.com/mccoderpy/discord.py-message-components.git@developer
Collecting git+https://github.com/mccoderpy/discord.py-message-components.git@developer
  Cloning https://github.com/mccoderpy/discord.py-message-components.git (to revision developer) to c:\users\rizwan computers\appdata\local\temp\pip-req-build-cajtzut0
  Running command git clone --filter=blob:none --quiet https://github.com/mccoderpy/discord.py-message-components.git 'C:\Users\Rizwan computers\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-req-build-cajtzut0'
  Running command git checkout -b developer --track origin/developer
  branch 'developer' set up to track 'origin/developer'.
  Switched to a new branch 'developer'
  Resolved https://github.com/mccoderpy/discord.py-message-components.git to commit cc5391b50830c3169388d80979fcd4ea7919d273
  Installing build dependencies ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × pip subprocess to install build dependencies did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [8 lines of output]
      Collecting setuptools>=40.8.0
        Using cached setuptools-62.3.2-py3-none-any.whl (1.2 MB)
      Collecting wheel
        Using cached wheel-0.37.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (35 kB)
      Installing collected packages: wheel, setuptools
      ERROR: Cannot set --home and --prefix together
      WARNING: You are using pip version 22.0.4; however, version 22.1 is available.
      You should consider upgrading via the 'C:\Users\Rizwan computers\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× pip subprocess to install build dependencies did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
WARNING: You are using pip version 22.0.4; however, version 22.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'C:\Users\Rizwan computers\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.

Output

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[oneextrafact]

Hi - getting this same message when I try to use pip for certain libraries in a 'dev container' within Visual Studio Code. I'm not supplying either --home or --prefix options.

[malikmajai]

It was an issue with pip configs. I fixed the issue after removing all pip configs.

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[oneextrafact]

Hmm interesting. I had to change my devcontainer.json to use sudo pip3, which I guess gave it permission to write to the user directory.

[toxicpanacea]

I had this issue too. To solve it, you could avoid using 'pip', which installs packages globally. An option is to use 'conda' to install packages to the current env. This perfectly solved my problem, which I think was due to the conflict between global env and current env.

[pafloxy]

I'm facing same isuue in Ubuntu 22.04. Can someone suggest some workarounds to this ?

[pradyunsg]

Please paste the output of pip config debug here. This is likely due to misconfiguration of pip, which is breaking the use of isolated builds in pip (the "pip subprocess").

[pafloxy]

Please paste the output of pip config debug here. This is likely due to misconfiguration of pip, which is breaking the use of isolated builds in pip (the "pip subprocess").

Hi @pradyunsg ! thank you for your concern here is the information you wanted, I am sorry for the delay in my reply! :)

env_var:
env:
global:
  /etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu/pip/pip.conf, exists: False
  /etc/xdg/pip/pip.conf, exists: False
  /etc/pip.conf, exists: False
site:
  /usr/pip.conf, exists: False
user:
  /home/pafloxy/.pip/pip.conf, exists: False
  /home/pafloxy/.config/pip/pip.conf, exists: True
    global.target: /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages

[pfmoore]

Having global.target set is extremely likely to cause problems, and it's not something I would recommend. Why is it set? (If you don't know, then the first step would be to find out, and ideally work out a better way to achieve the same result).

As it stands, it looks like that global.target is trying to force installation into a weird directory (dist-packages is usually reserved for system use, but /usr/local is for users, as far as I understand it, but I'm not a Linux expert). So I'm pretty sure that's your issue.

[yanwenzhou]

所以说要怎么解决这个问题啊，有答案吗？
so how to solve this problem? teach me please

[yanwenzhou]

pip config debug, find the folder
delete the target from pip.ini
problem solved!