Your installation instructions are completely unworkable

[Tamila-2017]

Your installation instructions for Linux -

 wget https://github.com/smicallef/spiderfoot/archive/v4.0.tar.gz
 tar zxvf v4.0.tar.gz
 cd spiderfoot-4.0
 pip3 install -r requirements.txt
 python3 ./sf.py -l 127.0.0.1:5001

• are completely unworkable:

.................... < skip> ........................

  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [67 lines of output]
      /tmp/pip-build-env-ocjwaoo6/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py:759: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: License classifiers are deprecated.
      !!
      
              ********************************************************************************
              Please consider removing the following classifiers in favor of a SPDX license expression:
      
              License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
      
              See https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/writing-pyproject-toml/#license for details.
              ********************************************************************************
      
      !!
        self._finalize_license_expression()
      running egg_info
      writing lib3/PyYAML.egg-info/PKG-INFO
      writing dependency_links to lib3/PyYAML.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
      writing top-level names to lib3/PyYAML.egg-info/top_level.txt
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "/home/user/spiderfoot-4.0/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 353, in <module>
          main()
        File "/home/user/spiderfoot-4.0/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 335, in main
          json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/home/user/spiderfoot-4.0/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 118, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return hook(config_settings)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-ocjwaoo6/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 334, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=[])
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-ocjwaoo6/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 304, in _get_build_requires
          self.run_setup()
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-ocjwaoo6/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 320, in run_setup
          exec(code, locals())
        File "<string>", line 271, in <module>
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-ocjwaoo6/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 117, in setup
          return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-ocjwaoo6/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/core.py", line 186, in setup
          return run_commands(dist)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-ocjwaoo6/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/core.py", line 202, in run_commands
          dist.run_commands()
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-ocjwaoo6/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 1002, in run_commands
          self.run_command(cmd)
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-ocjwaoo6/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 1104, in run_command
          super().run_command(command)
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-ocjwaoo6/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 1021, in run_command
          cmd_obj.run()
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-ocjwaoo6/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 312, in run
          self.find_sources()
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-ocjwaoo6/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 320, in find_sources
          mm.run()
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-ocjwaoo6/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 543, in run
          self.add_defaults()
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-ocjwaoo6/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 581, in add_defaults
          sdist.add_defaults(self)
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-ocjwaoo6/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/command/sdist.py", line 109, in add_defaults
          super().add_defaults()
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-ocjwaoo6/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/command/sdist.py", line 245, in add_defaults
          self._add_defaults_ext()
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-ocjwaoo6/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/command/sdist.py", line 330, in _add_defaults_ext
          self.filelist.extend(build_ext.get_source_files())
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "<string>", line 201, in get_source_files
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-ocjwaoo6/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/cmd.py", line 131, in __getattr__
          raise AttributeError(attr)
      AttributeError: cython_sources
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
(.venv) user@debian-12:~/spiderfoot-4.0$ 

[VolkerLieber]

#1906 (comment)