Failed to set carbon using pip?

Question

I am trying to install carbon on my local computer using pip. However, it seems that it is not working, not sure if it is not? Is the error log below? Can anyone help?

Link: http://graphite.wikidot.com/downloads

pip install carbon

Error:

Downloading/unpacking carbon
  Running setup.py (path:c:\users\ibm_ad~1\appdata\local\temp\pip_build_MARSHELL\carbon\setup.py) egg_info for package carbon

    package init file 'lib\twisted\plugins\__init__.py' not found (or not a regular file)
    warning: manifest_maker: MANIFEST.in, line 1: path 'conf/' cannot end with '/'

    warning: manifest_maker: MANIFEST.in, line 2: path 'distro/' cannot end with '/'

    warning: no previously-included files found matching 'conf\*.conf'
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): twisted in c:\python27\lib\site-packages (from carbon)
Downloading/unpacking txamqp (from carbon)
  Downloading txAMQP-0.6.2.tar.gz
  Running setup.py (path:c:\users\ibm_ad~1\appdata\local\temp\pip_build_MARSHELL\txamqp\setup.py) egg_info for package txamqp

Downloading/unpacking zope.interface>=3.6.0 (from twisted->carbon)
  Running setup.py (path:c:\users\ibm_ad~1\appdata\local\temp\pip_build_MARSHELL\zope.interface\setup.py) egg_info for package zope.interface

    warning: no previously-included files matching '*.dll' found anywhere in distribution
    warning: no previously-included files matching '*.pyc' found anywhere in distribution
    warning: no previously-included files matching '*.pyo' found anywhere in distribution
    warning: no previously-included files matching '*.so' found anywhere in distribution
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): setuptools in c:\python27\lib\site-packages (from zope.interface>=3.6.0->twisted->carbon)
Installing collected packages: carbon, txamqp, zope.interface
  Running setup.py install for carbon
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "c:\users\ibm_ad~1\appdata\local\temp\pip_build_MARSHELL\carbon\setup.py", line 44, in <module>
        **setup_kwargs
      File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\core.py", line 151, in setup
        dist.run_commands()
      File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
        self.run_command(cmd)
      File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 971, in run_command
        cmd_obj.ensure_finalized()
      File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 109, in ensure_finalized
        self.finalize_options()
      File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\install.py", line 38, in finalize_options
        orig.install.finalize_options(self)
      File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\command\install.py", line 353, in finalize_options
        'userbase', 'usersite')
      File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\command\install.py", line 504, in convert_paths
        setattr(self, attr, convert_path(getattr(self, attr)))
      File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\util.py", line 124, in convert_path
        raise ValueError, "path '%s' cannot be absolute" % pathname
    ValueError: path '/opt/graphite/lib' cannot be absolute
    Complete output from command C:\Python27\python.exe -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='c:\\users\\ibm_ad~1\\appdata\\local\\temp\\pip_build_MARSHELL\\carbon\\setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record c:\users\ibm_ad~1\appdata\local\temp\pip-ptjmmo-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
    running install

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>

  File "c:\users\ibm_ad~1\appdata\local\temp\pip_build_MARSHELL\carbon\setup.py", line 44, in <module>

    **setup_kwargs

  File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\core.py", line 151, in setup

    dist.run_commands()

  File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 953, in run_commands

    self.run_command(cmd)

  File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 971, in run_command

    cmd_obj.ensure_finalized()

  File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 109, in ensure_finalized

    self.finalize_options()

  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\install.py", line 38, in finalize_options

    orig.install.finalize_options(self)

  File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\command\install.py", line 353, in finalize_options

    'userbase', 'usersite')

  File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\command\install.py", line 504, in convert_paths

    setattr(self, attr, convert_path(getattr(self, attr)))

  File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\util.py", line 124, in convert_path

    raise ValueError, "path '%s' cannot be absolute" % pathname

ValueError: path '/opt/graphite/lib' cannot be absolute

----------------------------------------
Cleaning up...
Command C:\Python27\python.exe -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='c:\\users\\ibm_ad~1\\appdata\\local\\temp\\pip_build_MARSHELL\\carbon\\setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record c:\users\ibm_ad~1\appdata\local\temp\pip-ptjmmo-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile failed with error code 1 in c:\users\ibm_ad~1\appdata\local\temp\pip_build_MARSHELL\carbon
Storing debug log for failure in C:\Users\IBM_ADMIN\pip\pip.log

Answer 1

From http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/install.html :

Basic requirements for graphite:

• UNIX-like operating system

So Windows is not supported. Try it with a virtual machine.