Distutils package is deprecated

[MulletGoneViral]

I ran setup.sh in WSL in windows 11 and got this error:

/home/mulletgoneviral/Downloads/opt/pyexiftool/setup.py:17: DeprecationWarning: The distutils package is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12. Use setuptools or check PEP 632 for potential alternatives
from distutils.core import setup
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/mulletgoneviral/Downloads/opt/pyexiftool/setup.py", line 17, in
from distutils.core import setup

I also get this error:

cp: cannot stat 'Modules/lib/sc0pe_helper.py': No such file or directory

I checked the setup.sh file and cannot see where sc0pe_helper.py gets installed, is this error related to the previous one?

[CYB3RMX]

Hello there! Looks like the distutils error is related to pyexiftool repository. I will try to test setup.sh on my WSL and check what is wrong. Can you clone Qu1cksc0pe again and re-execute setup.sh script then send me screenshots about errors?

Note: Make sure if sc0pe_helper.py file contained in the new cloned repository directories

Edit: By the way following codes will install sc0pe_helper.py

Edit2: What is your python version? Can you try to use Qu1cksc0pe with python 3.9.2?

Edit3: I downloaded latest Qu1cksc0pe on my WSL and execute setup.sh script. After that it gave me this output:
Note: I used Windows 10. I tried to run Qu1cksc0pe and it worked for me.

[MulletGoneViral]

I found the problem for the second error. Turns out the git clone command didn't complete properly and some files like sc0pe_helper.py where not downloaded. I cloned it again and ran setup.sh but it still did not work and I got this error:

I am using python 3.11.2.

Edit: I installed requirements.txt via pip and got this error (too long to show in screenshot):

Building wheels for collected packages: yara-python, acefile
Building wheel for yara-python (setup.py) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× python setup.py bdist_wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [45 lines of output]
/home/mulletgoneviral/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py:755: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: Invalid dash-separated options
!!

          ********************************************************************************
          Usage of dash-separated 'description-file' will not be supported in future
          versions. Please use the underscore name 'description_file' instead.

          By 2023-Sep-26, you need to update your project and remove deprecated calls
          or your builds will no longer be supported.

          See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/declarative_config.html for details.
          ********************************************************************************

  !!
    opt = self.warn_dash_deprecation(opt, section)
  /home/mulletgoneviral/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/config/setupcfg.py:293: _DeprecatedConfig: Deprecated config in `setup.cfg`
  !!

          ********************************************************************************
          The license_file parameter is deprecated, use license_files instead.

          By 2023-Oct-30, you need to update your project and remove deprecated calls
          or your builds will no longer be supported.

          See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/declarative_config.html for details.
          ********************************************************************************

  !!
    parsed = self.parsers.get(option_name, lambda x: x)(value)
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_ext
  building 'yara' extension
  creating build
  creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-cpython-311
  creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-cpython-311/yara
  creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-cpython-311/yara/libyara
  creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-cpython-311/yara/libyara/modules
  creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-cpython-311/yara/libyara/proc
  x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -g -fwrapv -O2 -fPIC -DUSE_LINUX_PROC=1 -DHAVE_MEMMEM=1 -Iyara/libyara/include -Iyara/libyara/ -I. -I/usr/include/python3.11 -c yara-python.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-cpython-311/yara-python.o
  yara-python.c:20:10: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
     20 | #include <Python.h>
        |          ^~~~~~~~~~
  compilation terminated.
  error: command '/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit code 1
  [end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
ERROR: Failed building wheel for yara-python
Running setup.py clean for yara-python
Building wheel for acefile (setup.py) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× python setup.py bdist_wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [17 lines of output]
running bdist_wheel
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython-311
copying acefile.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython-311
running build_ext
building 'acebitstream' extension
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-cpython-311
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-cpython-311/c
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -g -fwrapv -O2 -fPIC -DLITTLE_ENDIAN_SWAP=1 -I/usr/include/python3.11 -c c/acebitstream.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-cpython-311/c/acebitstream.o
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -g -fwrapv -O2 -fPIC -DLITTLE_ENDIAN_SWAP=1 -I/usr/include/python3.11 -c c/acebitstream_mod.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-cpython-311/c/acebitstream_mod.o
c/acebitstream_mod.c:37:10: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
37 | #include <Python.h>
| ^~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
error: command '/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit code 1
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
ERROR: Failed building wheel for acefile
Running setup.py clean for acefile
Failed to build yara-python acefile
ERROR: Could not build wheels for yara-python, acefile, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

[CYB3RMX]

Hmm according to that error messages Can you do these things?:

1. setup.sh: line 17: pip3 command not found => Make sure you have the pip3 command. To install pip3 you can execute: sudo apt install python3-pip
2. Looks like you couldn't install the exiftool binary via apt. You got unmet dependency errors.
3. fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory => You need to do: sudo apt install python3-dev

If you fix that these problems and then restart the setup.sh script It should work properly.

Thank you for your report. I'll add pip3 existence check to setup.sh script.

[MulletGoneViral]

Thank you for the help and fast response, every thing seems to be installed properly but now I'm getting puremagic errors:

Is this because puremagic is in the wrong folder? I know that when it ran without the sc0pe_helper module it threw this error and then the "sc0pe_helper is not found" error, but installing puremagic fixed it.

[CYB3RMX]

You should execute sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt command for before installation will fix your problem. If you want to get best experience you don't need to install program by the way.

[MulletGoneViral]

Yes, sorry. I ran that command with pip not pip3 so that's why it did not work. All is working now. Thanks again for all your help. I am really interested in av and I think your work is very cool.

[CYB3RMX]

Thank you for your comments. I hope it was useful for you :)