problem with pip install

[mpgn]

What went wrong?

I have trouble to install version 1.7.3 =>
Command 'krb5-config --libs gssapi' returned non-zero exit status 127.

How do we reproduce?

[mpgn]

└─$ sudo apt install libkrb5-dev

[CravateRouge]

It would be great to have a message more verbose than that such as :

Command 'krb5-config --libs gssapi' returned non-zero exit status 127, 'libkrb5-dev' package is probably missing on your OS.

[jborean93]

While it may be possible to add something like this or at least add a check to see if krb5-config is present rather than the mysterious exit code 127 it's hard to state the package name of libkrb5-dev as the name is highly dependent on the system you are running under. For example Debian/Ubuntu it's libkrb5-dev but on RHEL-ish hosts it's krb5-devel.

I don't want to say this won't be added as I do see improving the error messages would be nice, it's just not a simple thing to do.

[CravateRouge]

I agree with you, but then something like libkrb5 library is probably missing on your OS would be more useful than krb5-config when googling the name to find the right package for a specific distribution.