Failed to add BasicSR as pdm dependencies

[wold9168]

❯ pdm init
Creating a pyproject.toml for PDM...
Please enter the Python interpreter to use
 0. [email protected] (/home/wold9168/Documents/_WIP/Real-ESRGAN/.venv/bin/python)
 1. [email protected] (/usr/bin/python3.13)
 2. [email protected] (/usr/bin/python)
Please select (0): 1
Virtualenv is created successfully at /home/wold9168/Documents/_WIP/test/.venv
Project name (test): 
Project version (0.1.0): 
Do you want to build this project for distribution(such as wheel)?
If yes, it will be installed by default when running `pdm install`. [y/n] (n): 
License(SPDX name) (MIT): 
Author name (wold9168): 
Author email ([email protected]): 
Python requires('*' to allow any) (==3.13.*): 
Project is initialized successfully
❯ eval $(pdm venv activate in-project)
❯ pip install basicsr
zsh: pip: command not found...
Install package 'python3-pip' to provide command 'pip'? [N/y] N


❯ pdm add basicsr==1.4.2
Adding packages to default dependencies: basicsr==1.4.2
  0:00:00 🔒 Lock successful.  
Changes are written to pyproject.toml.
Synchronizing working set with resolved packages: 1 to add, 0 to update, 0 to remove

  ✖ Install basicsr 1.4.2 failed
  ✖ Install basicsr 1.4.2 failed

ERRORS:
add basicsr failed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 59, in run
    result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "/home/wold9168/.local/share/pdm/venv/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pdm/installers/synchronizers.py", line 29, in install_candidate
    self.manager.install(can)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^
  File "/home/wold9168/.local/share/pdm/venv/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pdm/installers/manager.py", line 33, in install
    prepared.build(),
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/home/wold9168/.local/share/pdm/venv/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pdm/models/candidates.py", line 415, in build
    self._cached = Path(builder.build(build_dir, metadata_directory=self._metadata_dir))
                        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/wold9168/.local/share/pdm/venv/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pdm/builders/base.py", line 84, in wrapper
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/wold9168/.local/share/pdm/venv/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pdm/builders/wheel.py", line 24, in build
    requires = self._hook.get_requires_for_build_wheel(self.config_settings)
  File "/home/wold9168/.local/share/pdm/venv/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pyproject_hooks/_impl.py", line 196, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
    return self._call_hook(
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
        "get_requires_for_build_wheel", {"config_settings": config_settings}
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    )
    ^
  File "/home/wold9168/.local/share/pdm/venv/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pyproject_hooks/_impl.py", line 392, in _call_hook
    self._subprocess_runner(
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
        ,
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        cwd=self.source_dir,
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        extra_environ=extra_environ,
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    )
    ^
  File "/home/wold9168/.local/share/pdm/venv/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pdm/builders/base.py", line 281, in subprocess_runner
    return log_subprocessor(cmd, cwd, extra_environ=env)
  File "/home/wold9168/.local/share/pdm/venv/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/pdm/builders/base.py", line 128, in log_subprocessor
    raise build_error(e) from None
pdm.exceptions.BuildError: Build backend raised error: Showing the last 10 lines of the build output:
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/tmp/pdm-build-env-7ihutx3u-shared/lib/python3.13/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 522, in run_setup
    super().run_setup(setup_script=setup_script)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/tmp/pdm-build-env-7ihutx3u-shared/lib/python3.13/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 320, in run_setup
    exec(code, locals())
    ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<string>", line 149, in <module>
  File "<string>", line 79, in get_version
KeyError: '__version__'

  0:00:01 ✖ Some package operations failed. 1/1
See /home/wold9168/.local/state/pdm/log/pdm-install-nfu17b4v.log for detailed debug log.
[InstallationError]: Some package operations failed.
WARNING: Add '-v' to see the detailed traceback

The problem machine:

❯ fastfetch -l none
wold9168@toughb
---------------
OS: Fedora Linux 41 (KDE Plasma) x86_64
Host: ProLiant ML350p Gen8
Kernel: Linux 6.12.15-200.fc41.x86_64
Uptime: 1 hour, 1 min
Packages: 3449 (rpm), 12 (flatpak), 3 (snap)
Shell: zsh 5.9
Display (SKG2418): 1920x1080 @ 60 Hz in 27" [External]
DE: KDE Plasma 6.3.1
WM: KWin (Wayland)
WM Theme: Breeze
Theme: Breeze (Light) [Qt], Breeze [GTK3]
Icons: breeze [Qt], breeze [GTK3/4]
Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [Qt], Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK3/4]
Cursor: breeze (24px)
Terminal: yakuake 24.12.2
CPU: 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5-2696 v2 (48) @ 3.50 GHz
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB [Discrete]
GPU 2: NVIDIA Tesla P4 [Discrete]
Memory: 8.50 GiB / 236.08 GiB (4%)
Swap: 13.14 MiB / 8.00 GiB (0%)
Disk (/): 384.39 GiB / 741.21 GiB (52%) - btrfs
Disk (/default): 2.93 TiB / 10.77 TiB (27%) - zfs
Local IP (eno1): 192.168.24.4/24
Locale: en_US.UTF-8

[knoppmyth]

I ran into this issue as well. I used pyenv and install Python 3.11.9. basicsr than installed without issue.