pip install rectpack - fails with "error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'"

[nmz787]

Looks like solution is to add "wheel" to the requirements.txt (or setup.py)

[secnot]

Hi

If you look at setuptools tutorial it mentions that wheel is a requirement

While pip alone is sufficient to install from pre-built binary archives, up to date copies of the setuptools and wheel projects are useful to ensure you can also install from source archives:
python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel

So it doesn't make much sense to add the package to requirements.

Out of curiosity what OS, pip, and python versions are you using?

[nmz787]

Oh, interesting. I had to pip install setuptools too, before the install got as far as complaining about missing wheel.
OS: Linux version 4.9.164-vs2.3.9.8-beng (root@ex64-jessie) (gcc version 4.9.2 (Debian 4.9.2-10+deb8u2) ) #1 SMP Wed Mar 20 20:18:21 GMT 2019
PIP: 18.1
Python: 3.7.3