How to install bcrypt package on RHEL 8 / Fedora / Centos?

How to install bcrypt package on RHEL 8.6 / Fedora / Centos?

Got the error ‘python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1’ when trying to install bcrypt package on RHEL8.6.

tried bcrypt installation using pop3 command as mentioned below,

# pip3 install bcrypt --user

Received this error for above installation command.

WARNING: Running pip install with root privileges is generally not a good idea. Try `pip3 install --user` instead.
Collecting bcrypt
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/8c/ae/3af7d006aacf513975fd1948a6b4d6f8b4a307f8a244e1a3d3774b297aad/bcrypt-4.0.1.tar.gz
	Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    
        	=============================DEBUG ASSISTANCE==========================
        	If you are seeing an error here please try the following to
        	successfully install bcrypt:
    
        	Upgrade to the latest pip and try again. This will fix errors for most
        	users. See: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/#upgrading-pip
        	=============================DEBUG ASSISTANCE==========================
    
	Traceback (most recent call last):
  	File "", line 1, in 
  	File "/tmp/pip-build-05_ovll0/bcrypt/setup.py", line 11, in 
    	from setuptools_rust import RustExtension
	ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools_rust'
    
	----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-05_ovll0/bcrypt/

To fix this error, tried upgrading pip package,

# pip3 install --upgrade pip

installing packages,

WARNING: Running pip install with root privileges is generally not a good idea. Try `pip3 install --user` instead.
Collecting pip
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/a4/6d/
Installing collected packages: pip
Successfully installed pip-21.3.1

Let’s try to install bcrypt package now,

# pip3 install bcrypt

WARNING: pip is being invoked by an old script wrapper. This will fail in a future version of pip.
Please see https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5599 for advice on fixing the underlying issue.
To avoid this problem you can invoke Python with '-m pip' instead of running pip directly.
Collecting bcrypt
  Downloading bcrypt-4.0.1-cp36-abi3-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl  	 
Installing collected packages: bcrypt
Successfully installed bcrypt-4.0.1
WARNING: Running pip as the 'root' user can result in broken permissions and conflicting behaviour with the system package manager. It is recommended to use a virtual environment instead: https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/venv

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