Unable to install older version of aerospike about aerospike-client-python HOT 3 CLOSED

So the problem seems to be, that the package is trying to download file:

https://artifacts.aerospike.com/aerospike-client-c/4.6.10/aerospike-client-c-devel-4.6.10.ubuntu20.04.x86_64.deb
                                                                                                ^^^^^

But on the official C library download page the latest ubuntu version seems to be 18.04 (which is what I tried to install manually into my system).

So there is no 20.04 version. Which probably means that all your releases will break on any new version of linux that you did not build for at the time of release?

Is there an environment variable or a command line flag that I could specify to override what file your setup script should download? Or what version of linux it should use when constructing the download URL? Can I override any of it?

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Ok, so I figured this out myself, but I do think your installation instructions should mention this.

In order for the python package to use a manually installed aerospike C library, you need to set 2 environment variables:

# this is the default location
PREFIX=/usr

# disable any attempts to download packages from the internet
DOWNLOAD_C_CLIENT=-1

In other words - installation works, when I run:

$ PREFIX=/usr DOWNLOAD_C_CLIENT=-1 pip install aerospike==3.10.0

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Hi @Paulius-Maruska

There are a few things happening here. The Python client is normally installed with manylinux wheels that bundle dependencies, pypi has a manylinux wheel for each supported version of Python. However, Client 3.10.0 does not officially support Python 3.8, so there isn't a manylinux2010 wheel and pip defaults to a source install. As you observed, the setup.py looks for a corresponding C client artifact to download, since C client 4.6.10 did not support Ubu20, that artifact does not exist and the build fails. Documentation for building on unsupported distros is here, https://github.com/aerospike/aerospike-client-python/blob/master/BUILD.md#building-on-an-unsupported-linux-distro . Sorry you ran into this and thanks for sharing your solution.

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