Assertionerror: Egg-link .. Does Not Match Installed Location Of Reviewboard (at /...)

AssertionError: Egg-link /home/daniel/other-rb/reviewboard does not match installed location of ReviewBoard (at /home/daniel/reviewboard) I believe this was caused by me installin

Solution 1:

If you are using Python3.5 on Ubuntu:

rm ~/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/[Package name].egg-link

where [Package name] is the package that causes issues.

Solution 2:

This problem happens if you move the source code directory after the egg-link file is created.

You can edit the proper egg-link file, /home/daniel/envs/reviewboard-3.0/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ReviewBoard.egg-link, replacing the line /home/daniel/other-rb/reviewboard with /home/daniel/reviewboard and retry.

Solution 3:

You can silence the AssertionError by running Python in optimized mode, -O. And we can run the pip module through Python too, -m.

$ python -O -m pip uninstall <pkg-name>

Note: You may want to verify python -m pip is the same as pip. As sometimes the default Python and default pip can get out of sync.

$ pip -V
pip 20.3.1 from /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip (python 3.9)
$ python -m pip -V
pip 20.3.1 from /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip (python 3.9)

Solution 4:

If you're building your package with Python

import glob
import os
import sys

def get_egg_file(module_name):
    def f(packages):
        return glob.glob(
            os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(sys.executable)),
                         'lib', 'python*', packages, module_name + '.egg-link'))

    return f('site-packages') or f('dist-packages')


egg_file = get_egg_file('YOUR_PACKAGE_NAME')
if egg_file:
    os.remove(egg_file[0])

Note that this should be executed in the target virtualenv or system python environment for sys.executable to resolve to what you want.

Solution 5:

Just delete your .tox folder. When you run tox again a new .tox/ directory gets generated with the correct paths.