Error when installing patroni

[TheFlipside]

On an Ubuntu 18.04 system I ran into errors at the part of installing patroni:

Finished installing PostgreSQL.
Synchronizing state of postgresql.service with SysV service script with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install.
Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install disable postgresql
Collecting patroni
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/d9/71/f1465e00f5e2d3e4c00c4ef8d80c02e3c31ac76dcf6a9d3b0cdef3b62305/patroni-1.6.5.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
WARNING: The wheel package is not available.
WARNING: The wheel package is not available.
WARNING: The wheel package is not available.
WARNING: The wheel package is not available.
WARNING: The wheel package is not available.
WARNING: The wheel package is not available.
WARNING: The wheel package is not available.
ERROR: Failed to build one or more wheels
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/tmp/pip-build-ntghgy/patroni/setup.py", line 166, in
setup_package(version)
File "/tmp/pip-build-ntghgy/patroni/setup.py", line 150, in setup_package
entry_points={'console_scripts': CONSOLE_SCRIPTS},
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/init.py", line 161, in setup
_install_setup_requires(attrs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/init.py", line 156, in _install_setup_requires
dist.fetch_build_eggs(dist.setup_requires)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 721, in fetch_build_eggs
replace_conflicting=True,
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 782, in resolve
replace_conflicting=replace_conflicting
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 1065, in best_match
return self.obtain(req, installer)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 1077, in obtain
return installer(requirement)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 777, in fetch_build_egg
return fetch_build_egg(self, req)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/installer.py", line 130, in fetch_build_egg
raise DistutilsError(str(e))
distutils.errors.DistutilsError: Command '['/usr/bin/python', '-m', 'pip', '--disable-pip-version-check', 'wheel', '--no-deps', '-w', '/tmp/tmp45RgeS', '--quiet', 'functools32']' returned non-zero exit status 1
----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-ntghgy/patroni/

I was able to solve this by running pip install wheel
but another run of the setup resulted in an even bigger error:
https://pastebin.com/bkGnnvAn

I was able to resolve this one with apt install python-dev
just wanted to mention this as some dependencies seem to be missing from the setup scripts