Pain point · Self-hosting & upgrades · Blocks work
Building Redash from source fails on a setuptools upstream bug
4 source threads · first seen 2017-02 · last seen 2024-07
Summary
A user spent hours failing to build Redash on several machines before finding an upstream packaging bug and a poetry workaround.
- Affects
- developers building from source
- Workaround
- Followed the poetry-specific steps in the upstream setuptools issue
Evidence
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“Have spent hours on this, trying to get it working first on my Proxmox desktop, then in VMs”
“redash_server_1 exited with code 139”
“error TS2688: Cannot find type definition file for 'jest”
“500 error on hitting the redash server post setup”