Stuck on Sentencepiece

[frenzybiscuit]

I'm using a prebuilt wheel and getting stuck on sentencepiece in my python venv. I'm on fedora 42 if that helps.

Koboldcpp works flawlessly, so I'd really like to get exllamav2 to work.

Using cached six-1.17.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (11 kB)
Building wheels for collected packages: sentencepiece
  Building wheel for sentencepiece (pyproject.toml) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × Building wheel for sentencepiece (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [247 lines of output]
      /tmp/pip-build-env-1fcxsyhw/overlay/lib/python3.13/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py:270: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'test_suite'
        warnings.warn(msg)
      running bdist_wheel
      running build
      running build_py
      creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython-313/sentencepiece
      copying src/sentencepiece/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython-313/sentencepiece
      copying src/sentencepiece/_version.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython-313/sentencepiece
      copying src/sentencepiece/sentencepiece_model_pb2.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython-313/sentencepiece
      copying src/sentencepiece/sentencepiece_pb2.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython-313/sentencepiece
      running build_ext
      Package sentencepiece was not found in the pkg-config search path.
      Perhaps you should add the directory containing `sentencepiece.pc'
      to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
      Package 'sentencepiece' not found

[Vhallo]

Sentencepiece hasn't been updated in a long time, causing issues with the latest python version. There's an updated wheel for windows here: google/sentencepiece#1104
For linux, I'd try look here for any potential workarounds: https://github.com/google/sentencepiece/issues