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<pre><font face="Verdana">Hi,</font></pre>
<pre><font face="Verdana">I have tried the steps in the website <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://diffoscope.org/">https://diffoscope.org/</a> to install diffoscope. But I am unable to complete the installation due error. The errors are given below.</font></pre>
<pre><font face="Verdana">Please look into this and give me the exact steps to complete the installation.
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root@lamp:~# pip install diffoscope
Downloading/unpacking diffoscope
Downloading diffoscope-45.tar.gz (336Kb): 336Kb downloaded
Running setup.py egg_info for package diffoscope
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 14, in <module>
File "/root/build/diffoscope/setup.py", line 27, in <module>
long_description=open('README.rst', encoding='utf-8').read(),
TypeError: 'encoding' is an invalid keyword argument for this function
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 14, in <module>
File "/root/build/diffoscope/setup.py", line 27, in <module>
long_description=open('README.rst', encoding='utf-8').read(),
TypeError: 'encoding' is an invalid keyword argument for this function
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<font face="Verdana"><font face="Verdana">Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1
Storing complete log in /root/.pip/pip.log
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root@lamp:~# apt-get install diffoscope
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package diffoscope
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root@lamp:~# apt-get install diffoscope
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package diffoscope
root@lamp:~# git clone <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible">https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible</a>
Cloning into 'reproducible'...
fatal: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/info/refs">https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/info/refs</a> not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server?
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<pre><font face="Verdana">Thanks</font>
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<pre><font face="Verdana">Sijo M C</font></pre>
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