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Could somebody help me with the following problem? It would be much appreciated.

Goal : To install Bluto on Kali Linux 2020.1 using sudo pip install bluto command

Problem : Install does not complete

Error message:

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: command: /usr/bin/python -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-9scbuzrf/pdfminer/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-9scbuzrf/pdfminer/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-install-9scbuzrf/pdfminer/pip-egg-info cwd: /tmp/pip-install-9scbuzrf/pdfminer/ Complete output (8 lines): Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/tmp/pip-install-9scbuzrf/pdfminer/setup.py", line 3, in <module> from pdfminer import __version__ File "/tmp/pip-install-9scbuzrf/pdfminer/pdfminer/__init__.py", line 5 print __version__ ^ SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(__version__)? ---------------------------------------- ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

Im running : Kali Linux 2020.1
Python 3.8.1 (default, Jan 19 2020, 22:34:33) git version 2.25.0 pip 20.0.2 from /home/kali/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip (python 3.8)

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Bluto Kali Linux install error

flex891
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  • Does this answer your question? [What does "SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'" mean in Python?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25445439/what-does-syntaxerror-missing-parentheses-in-call-to-print-mean-in-python) – gre_gor Feb 17 '20 at 15:42

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print __version__

Is python 2x syntax and not compatible with python 3x. You are using 3.8, so it is incompatible.

In your case, bluto seems to have pdfminer==20140328 as a requirement, which is written with python 2x syntax. Note that also bluto itself is only compatible with python 2x.

What you can do is:

  • Use a python 2 interpreter with bluto - since python2 is deprecated, this is not a very good option
  • Download the source code of bluto, remove the pdfminer==20140328 and update the code to python 3
  • try to use something like this three year old fork that claims to have converted bluto to python 3
FlyingTeller
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  • yes, bluto github page states at the last line: "Please be aware that the current version of Bluto does not support Python 3. It is a python 2.7.x application." – cnherald Jul 11 '20 at 12:20