Drop SPARQLWrapper from the required install inputs under Python 2, as it creates a circular dependency. diff -u rdflib-4.1.2.alt/setup.py rdflib-4.1.2/setup.py --- rdflib-4.1.2.alt/setup.py 2014-03-04 12:40:26.000000000 +0100 +++ rdflib-4.1.2/setup.py 2015-01-23 21:52:59.000000000 +0100 @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ kwargs['test_suite'] = "nose.collector" kwargs['install_requires'] = [ 'isodate', - 'pyparsing', 'SPARQLWrapper'] + 'pyparsing'] if sys.version_info[1]<7: # Python 2.6 kwargs['install_requires'].append('ordereddict')