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You can't install catkin via PIP. While it does have a setup.py file it is not a pure Python package.

You can either clone the repository and use catkin from source (and build it from source) or install the Debian package from the ROS apt repo. It only depends on CMake and a handful of Python packages but nothing ROS specific.

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