Error message while installing sbase in CI

[maburrub]

I created a python virtual env then installed sbase using:
pip install seleniumbase
then I did pip freeze > requirements.txt
now I can install these dependences any venv of my choice by
pip install -r requiremets.txt
This works fine on my local mac machine but when I apply the same steps on a gitlab linux runner. I get the following error:
Note: the error is not preventing seleniumbase from working, everything is working fine but I am wondering what is this error message.

Collecting wheel>=0.37.0
Downloading wheel-0.37.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (35 kB)
Building wheels for collected packages: ipdb
Building wheel for ipdb (setup.py): started
Building wheel for ipdb (setup.py): finished with status 'error'
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /builds/mabualrob/pacautomation/env/bin/python3 -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-68y7am09/ipdb/setup.py'"'"'; file='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-68y7am09/ipdb/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(file);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' bdist_wheel -d /tmp/pip-wheel-zvre04so
cwd: /tmp/pip-install-68y7am09/ipdb/
Complete output (6 lines):
usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
or: setup.py --help-commands
or: setup.py cmd --help

error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'

ERROR: Failed building wheel for ipdb
Running setup.py clean for ipdb
Failed to build ipdb
ERROR: seleniumbase 2.2.10 has requirement setuptools>=59.6.0; python_version >= "3.6", but you'll have setuptools 44.0.0 which is incompatible.

[mdmintz]

@maburrub Your version of setuptools is so old, (44.0.0 vs latest 59.6.0), that you'll probably have to upgrade that first, independently, before installing seleniumbase:
pip install --upgrade setuptools
And you should do the same for pip too:
pip install --upgrade pip
Then you can install the rest as needed.