WSL: No such file or directory when installing a setup.py for a third-party

domattioli

10/28/23, 8:51 PM

I'm trying to run a setup.py file for a third-party package in my Ubuntu WSL:

$ sudo env PATH=$PATH python setup.py develop

The setup.py file is designed to modularize the package, and I'm running it with sudo because I do not have admin write privliges. However, I get the error:

env: ‘Files/WindowsApps/CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_2004.2022.1.0_x64__79rhkp1fndgsc:/mnt/c/Program’: No such file or directory

I can't figure out why it is trying to look in /mnt/c/Program. My Windows data on this shared PC lives at /mnt/c/Users/username, but there is nothing in the setup.py code relating to directory paths. There are no open or closed issues on the repo's site that discuss the same error, so I am assuming that this issue is an WSL/Ubuntu nuance.

The third-party package installation instructions are:

git clone https://github.com/zju3dv/EasyMocap.git
conda create -n easymocap python=3.9 -y
conda activate easymocap
wget -c https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu111/torch-1.9.1%2Bcu111-cp39-cp39-linux_x86_64.whl
wget -c https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu111/torchvision-0.10.1%2Bcu111-cp39-cp39-linux_x86_64.whl
python3 -m pip install ./torch-1.9.1+cu111-cp39-cp39-linux_x86_64.whl
python3 -m pip install ./torchvision-0.10.1+cu111-cp39-cp39-linux_x86_64.whl
python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
# install pyrender if you have a screen
python3 -m pip install pyrender
python setup.py develop

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steeldriver

10/28/23, 9:04 PM

This is almost certainly because of the default WSL "appendWindowsPath" setting and Windows having path components containing whitespace - see for example [bad variable name error on WSL](https://askubuntu.com/a/1355022/178692). See if it works with `env PATH="$PATH"` in place of `env PATH=$PATH`

domattioli

10/31/23, 3:29 PM

Yeesh, another trivial typo issue. Thank you!

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