[Solved] error: invalid command ‘bdist_wheel’

Hello Guys, How are you all? Hope You all Are Fine. My setup.py builds fails with this error: invalid command ‘bdist_wheel’ in python. So Here I am Explain to you all the possible solutions here.

Without wasting your time, Let’s start This Article to Solve This Error.

How error: invalid command ‘bdist_wheel’ Error Occurs ?

My setup.py builds fails with this error.

usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
   or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
   or: setup.py --help-commands
   or: setup.py cmd --help
error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'

How To Solve error: invalid command ‘bdist_wheel’ Error ?

Solution 1: Install wheel package

You just need to install wheel package to resolve this error. Just use below command.

pip install wheel

Then run this command.

python setup.py bdist_wheel 

Now Your error must be solved.

Solution 2: Use this commands

You need to execute all below command if you are using ubuntu.

sudo apt-get install gcc libpq-dev -y

sudo apt-get install python-dev  python-pip -y

sudo apt-get install python3-dev python3-pip python3-venv python3-wheel -y

pip3 install wheel

Solution 3: add this line

First of all you need to install wheel package, Just use this command.

pip install wheel

Now, Also add this line in your setup.py

setup(
    ...
    setup_requires=['wheel']
)

save yourself a pip install command

Summary

It’s all About this issue. Hope all solution helped you a lot. Comment below Your thoughts and your queries. Also, Comment below which solution worked for you?

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