I've been trying to kill several birds with one stone by reviewing unanswered questions with the blacklisted installation tag. This has been effective thus far. Unfortunately while editing [this][2] question I discovered this error: ![editfail][1] [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/1gupq.png [2]:https://askubuntu.com/questions/347442/install-package-from-ppa-with-setup-py-file I thought it was a minor hiccup so I removed all the tags and put the appropriate ones back with the same result.