not able to install karapace manaully using pythin 3.8

[rajsolanki73]

Hi

I am trying to install karapce manually using python 3.8

python3.8 setup.py install
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 16, in
version_for_setup_py = version.get_project_version()
File "/opt/karapace/karapace-3.5.0/version.py", line 56, in get_project_version
raise RuntimeError(f"version not available from git or from file {str(version_file)!r}")
RuntimeError: version not available from git or from file '/opt/karapace/karapace-3.5.0/karapace/version.py'

[rajsolanki73]

I should have searched in issues here . I used git clone and it works.

[aiven-anton]

@rajsolanki73 I'm glad you figured it out, setup requires to be able to determine a version and as you figured out, when using git Karapace will use the git history to determine a version. You could also manually set a version with the KARAPACE_VERSION environment variable. I'll leave this issue open, as I suspect we should update installation instructions in documentation.