python3-setuptools-scm-opt (setuptools-scm installed to /opt) setuptools_scm extracts Python package versions from git or hg metadata instead of declaring them as the version argument or in a SCM managed file. # Build your package with this version to fix errors like the following: ImportError: cannot import name '__version__' from ... NOTE: Installs to /opt/python$PYVER/site-packages Add the following before the python3 build commands in your Slackbuild to use this version over the stock one in 15.0: PYVER=$(python3 -c 'import sys; print("%d.%d" % sys.version_info[:2])') export PYTHONPATH=/opt/python$PYVER/site-packages