snips-nlu not getting installed on docker - docker

Question

Issue:
I am installing snips in docker with step 1 given in To Reproduce section. I am ending with No module named 'distutils.msvccompiler' error. I am running everything on Linux based system. is there alternative way to install snips-nlu in docker?
To Reproduce
Created installSnips.sh (following) file for installing rust, rust setup tool
pip3 install numpy
pip3 install scipy
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y
pip3 install setuptools-rust
source ~/.cargo/env
pip3 install snips-nlu
while running installSnips.sh pip3 install snip-nlu enter in following error
Building wheel for scikit-learn (setup.py) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error
× python setup.py bdist_wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [26 lines of output]
Partial import of sklearn during the build process.
/tmp/pip-install-h9opcxf9/scikit-learn_fc42ebd0e5804549ad6f611dced79620/setup.py:123: DeprecationWarning:
`numpy.distutils` is deprecated since NumPy 1.23.0, as a result
of the deprecation of `distutils` itself. It will be removed for
Python >= 3.12. For older Python versions it will remain present.
It is recommended to use `setuptools < 60.0` for those Python versions.
For more details, see:
https://numpy.org/devdocs/reference/distutils_status_migration.html
from numpy.distutils.command.build_ext import build_ext # noqa
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-install-h9opcxf9/scikit-learn_fc42ebd0e5804549ad6f611dced79620/setup.py", line 303, in <module>
setup_package()
File "/tmp/pip-install-h9opcxf9/scikit-learn_fc42ebd0e5804549ad6f611dced79620/setup.py", line 295, in setup_package
from numpy.distutils.core import setup
File "/home/drjslab/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/numpy/distutils/core.py", line 24, in <module>
from numpy.distutils.command import config, config_compiler, \
File "/home/drjslab/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/numpy/distutils/command/config.py", line 19, in <module>
from numpy.distutils.mingw32ccompiler import generate_manifest
File "/home/drjslab/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/numpy/distutils/mingw32ccompiler.py", line 28, in <module>
from distutils.msvccompiler import get_build_version as get_build_msvc_version
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.msvccompiler'
[end of output]
note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
ERROR: Failed building wheel for scikit-learn
Running setup.py clean for scikit-learn
Failed to build scikit-learn
Installing collected packages: requests, pyaml, packaging, scikit-learn, deprecation
Attempting uninstall: scikit-learn
Found existing installation: scikit-learn 1.1.2
Uninstalling scikit-learn-1.1.2:
Successfully uninstalled scikit-learn-1.1.2
Running setup.py install for scikit-learn ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error
× Running setup.py install for scikit-learn did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [26 lines of output]
Partial import of sklearn during the build process.
/tmp/pip-install-h9opcxf9/scikit-learn_fc42ebd0e5804549ad6f611dced79620/setup.py:123: DeprecationWarning:
`numpy.distutils` is deprecated since NumPy 1.23.0, as a result
of the deprecation of `distutils` itself. It will be removed for
Python >= 3.12. For older Python versions it will remain present.
It is recommended to use `setuptools < 60.0` for those Python versions.
For more details, see:
https://numpy.org/devdocs/reference/distutils_status_migration.html
from numpy.distutils.command.build_ext import build_ext # noqa
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-install-h9opcxf9/scikit-learn_fc42ebd0e5804549ad6f611dced79620/setup.py", line 303, in <module>
setup_package()
File "/tmp/pip-install-h9opcxf9/scikit-learn_fc42ebd0e5804549ad6f611dced79620/setup.py", line 295, in setup_package
from numpy.distutils.core import setup
File "/home/drjslab/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/numpy/distutils/core.py", line 24, in <module>
from numpy.distutils.command import config, config_compiler, \
File "/home/drjslab/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/numpy/distutils/command/config.py", line 19, in <module>
from numpy.distutils.mingw32ccompiler import generate_manifest
File "/home/drjslab/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/numpy/distutils/mingw32ccompiler.py", line 28, in <module>
from distutils.msvccompiler import get_build_version as get_build_msvc_version
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.msvccompiler'
[end of output]
note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
Rolling back uninstall of scikit-learn
Moving to /home/drjslab/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/scikit_learn-1.1.2.dist-info/
from /home/drjslab/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/~cikit_learn-1.1.2.dist-info
Moving to /home/drjslab/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/scikit_learn.libs/
from /home/drjslab/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/~cikit_learn.libs
Moving to /home/drjslab/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/sklearn/
from /home/drjslab/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/~klearn
error: legacy-install-failure
× Encountered error while trying to install package.
╰─> scikit-learn
note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
Environment:
Base OS: Ubuntu 20.04
Base Python version: 3.8
snips-nlu version:Latest
Docker OS: Ubuntu 20.04
Docker Python: 3.10.4

Answer 1

It seems a recent update of setuptools broke numpy.distutils which is a dependency of scikit-learn.
https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/pull/3505
A reported possible solution is to install setuptools<65 with pip install --no-use-pep517