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Description
I solved my problem mentioned in #674 (by running the setup.py file using Python 2).
Not sure this is relevant, but Python 3 does not allow installing through setup.py:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 274, in <module>
main()
File "setup.py", line 268, in main
'install': InstallPlatlib,
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 129, in setup
return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.6.5/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/distutils/core.py", line 148, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.6.5/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/distutils/dist.py", line 955, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.6.5/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/distutils/dist.py", line 974, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/install.py", line 67, in run
self.do_egg_install()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/install.py", line 117, in do_egg_install
cmd.run()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 412, in run
self.easy_install(spec, not self.no_deps)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 654, in easy_install
return self.install_item(None, spec, tmpdir, deps, True)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 701, in install_item
self.process_distribution(spec, dist, deps)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 726, in process_distribution
self.install_egg_scripts(dist)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 600, in install_egg_scripts
dist.get_metadata('scripts/' + script_name)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1405, in get_metadata
return value.decode('utf-8') if six.PY3 else value
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xcf in position 0: invalid continuation byte