FileNotFoundError while installing the module jpy via pip in conda

Question

I work in anaconda (python 3.4) and I'm using Linux Min 18. I tried to get the module jpy with pip install -i https://pypi.anaconda.org/pypi/simple jpy, but I got the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-build-p2voq_f8/jpy/setup.py", line 100, in <module>
        with open('README.rst') as file:
    FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'README.rst'

And I know what the problem is, but not how to solve it. I tried to update my setuptools with pip install -U setuptools pip but the main problem is still there. And to google it was not helpful for me.

Any ideas? Thank you.

Answer 1

grabbed from github:

First download the repository

Install a JDK 8, preferrably the Oracle distribution. Set JDK_HOME or JPY_JDK_HOME to point to your JDK installation and run the build script:

$ export JAVA_HOME=<your-jdk-dir> 
$ python get-pip.py 
$ python setup.py --maven bdist_wheel

On success, the wheel is found in the dist directory.

To deploy the jpy.jar (if you don't know why you need this step, this is not for you):

$ mvn clean deploy -DskipTests=true

https://github.com/bcdev/jpy