pip3 install fails with error

[nrathaus]

While trying to install via pip3 I get:

$ pip3 install opendoor
Collecting opendoor
  Downloading opendoor-4.2.0.tar.gz (1.7 MB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1.7/1.7 MB 2.4 MB/s eta 0:00:00
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [6 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
        File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
        File "/tmp/pip-install-zisqpebd/opendoor_18f697a3bda544c2a618f40c0f594f9f/setup.py", line 21, in <module>
          fVersion = open('VERSION').readline().rstrip()
      FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'VERSION'
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.