Install instructions fail, error message simply repeats install instructions. about tensorflow HOT 15 CLOSED

$ pip install --extra-index-url=https://pypi.ngc.nvidia.com --trusted-host pypi.ngc.nvidia.com nvidia-tensorflow
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://pypi.ngc.nvidia.com, https://pypi.ngc.nvidia.com
Collecting nvidia-tensorflow
  Downloading nvidia-tensorflow-0.0.1.dev4.tar.gz (3.8 kB)
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /home/shawley/anaconda3/envs/spnet/bin/python -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-vd7fm7lc/nvidia-tensorflow/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-vd7fm7lc/nvidia-tensorflow/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-pip-egg-info-ir6r10an
         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-vd7fm7lc/nvidia-tensorflow/
    Complete output (17 lines):
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-install-vd7fm7lc/nvidia-tensorflow/setup.py", line 150, in <module>
        raise RuntimeError(open("ERROR.txt", "r").read())
    RuntimeError:
    ###########################################################################################
    The package you are trying to install is only a placeholder project on PyPI.org repository.
    This package is hosted on NVIDIA Python Package Index.
    
    This package can be installed as:
    ```
    $ pip install nvidia-pyindex
    $ pip install nvidia-tensorflow
    ```
    
    Please refer to NVIDIA instructions: https://github.com/NVIDIA/tensorflow#install.
    ###########################################################################################
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

$ python3.8 -m venv env_spnet
$ source env_spnet/bin/activate
(env_spnet) $ pip install --user nvidia-pyindex
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/shawley/env_spnet/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/home/shawley/env_spnet/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 290, in run
    with self._build_session(options) as session:
  File "/home/shawley/env_spnet/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 68, in _build_session
    normalize_path(os.path.join(options.cache_dir, "http"))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/posixpath.py", line 76, in join
    a = os.fspath(a)
TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not in

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python3.8 -

# Name                    Version                   Build  Channel
ca-certificates           2021.10.8            h5b45459_0    conda-forge
nvidia-pyindex            1.0.9                    pypi_0    pypi
openssl                   3.0.0                h8ffe710_2    conda-forge
pip                       22.0.4             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
python                    3.8.12          h900ac77_2_cpython    conda-forge
python_abi                3.8                      2_cp38    conda-forge
setuptools                60.9.3           py38haa244fe_0    conda-forge
sqlite                    3.37.0               h8ffe710_0    conda-forge
ucrt                      10.0.20348.0         h57928b3_0    conda-forge
vc                        14.2                 hb210afc_6    conda-forge
vs2015_runtime            14.29.30037          h902a5da_6    conda-forge
wheel                     0.37.1             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge

C:\Users\mrjon\Projects\LSS>pip install --extra-index-url=https://pypi.ngc.nvidia.com --trusted-host pypi.ngc.nvidia.com nvidia-tensorflow[horovod]
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://pypi.ngc.nvidia.com, https://pypi.ngc.nvidia.com
Collecting nvidia-tensorflow[horovod]
  Downloading nvidia-tensorflow-0.0.1.dev5.tar.gz (7.9 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [19 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
        File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
        File "C:\Users\mrjon\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-b_g8l9g9\nvidia-tensorflow_be127eece9114603ae5b578b2891349a\setup.py", line 150, in <module>
          raise RuntimeError(open("ERROR.txt", "r").read())
      RuntimeError:
      ###########################################################################################
      The package you are trying to install is only a placeholder project on PyPI.org repository.
      This package is hosted on NVIDIA Python Package Index.

      This package can be installed as:
      ```
      $ pip install nvidia-pyindex
      $ pip install nvidia-tensorflow
      ```

      Please refer to NVIDIA instructions: https://github.com/NVIDIA/tensorflow#install.
      ###########################################################################################

      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.

pip install -U setuptools