pip install video-to-ascii not installing

[unofficialdxnny]

Describe the bug
The pip command throws error and does not install the module
the error is following

Collecting video-to-ascii
  Using cached video_to_ascii-1.3.0.tar.gz (6.9 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [15 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "C:\Users\ahmed\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-9apno99s\video-to-ascii_e8b3c15ce1a440489be86a409ed5aee6\setup.py", line 11, in install_package
          main.main(['install', package])
      AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'main'

      During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
        File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
        File "C:\Users\ahmed\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-9apno99s\video-to-ascii_e8b3c15ce1a440489be86a409ed5aee6\setup.py", line 21, in <module>
          install_package('opencv-python')
        File "C:\Users\ahmed\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-9apno99s\video-to-ascii_e8b3c15ce1a440489be86a409ed5aee6\setup.py", line 14, in install_package
          __main__._main(['install', package])
      AttributeError: module 'pip.__main__' has no attribute '_main'
      [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.

Desktop (Windows)

• OS: Windows 10
• Currently running on Windows-10-10.0.19044-SP0

[buzz-lightsnack-2007]

Kindly check out #78 as fixes have already been mentioned there.

[unofficialdxnny]

Kindly check out #78 as fixes have already been mentioned there.

yes ty. For anyone else also on this thread the following will sort it for you

[fwolfst]

Kindly check out #78 as fixes have already been mentioned there.

yes ty. For anyone else also on this thread the following will sort it for you

Thanks. The whole command than e.g. looks like pip3 install -U video-to-ascii==1.2.8 (for anybody not familiar with pips options - like me - , copied from #78).

[unofficialdxnny]

Kindly check out #78 as fixes have already been mentioned there.

yes ty. For anyone else also on this thread the following will sort it for you

Thanks. The whole command than e.g. looks like pip3 install -U video-to-ascii==1.2.8 (for anybody not familiar with pips options - like me - , copied from #78).

This command works perfectly. I am now going to close this question. If anyone seems to get same problem and have tried these solutions feel free to reopen this issue :)

Correct response is pip3 install -U video-to-ascii==1.2.8