Cannot install through pip

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Bug report

I cannot install the program through pip.

What is the current behavior?

This displays when I try to do it.

Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting bpsproxy
Using cached bpsproxy-0.2.1.tar.gz (19 kB)
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /usr/bin/python2 /home/[my account]/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py get_requires_for_build_wheel /tmp/tmp658bi4
cwd: /tmp/pip-install-6rOAcK/bpsproxy
Complete output (20 lines):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/[my account]/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py", line 280, in
main()
File "/home/[my account]/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py", line 263, in main
json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
File "/home/[my account]/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py", line 114, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
return hook(config_settings)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-ywCtzs/overlay/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 146, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=['wheel'])
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-ywCtzs/overlay/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 127, in _get_build_requires
self.run_setup()
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-ywCtzs/overlay/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 243, in run_setup
self).run_setup(setup_script=setup_script)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-ywCtzs/overlay/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 142, in run_setup
exec(compile(code, file, 'exec'), locals())
File "setup.py", line 30, in
long_description=readme(),
File "setup.py", line 21, in readme
with open("README.md") as f:
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'README.md'

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /usr/bin/python2 /home/[my account]/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py get_requires_for_build_wheel /tmp/tmp658bi4 Check the logs for full command output.

What is the expected behavior?

Normal installation.