ERROR: Could not build wheels for scipy which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly

I'm trying to install scipy via pip on my 64 bit ARMV8 board. I have already installed openblas which is required by scipy. So, no issues with that. When i gave pip3 install scipy --trusted-host pypi.org --trusted-host files.pythonhosted.org , I got the error Failed building wheel for scipy . I have pip3 and pip3.5 in my /usr/bin and the rest of the pip is in /usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages.So basically, I also have pip.

I also tried to install scipy with --no-binary option, which was one of the answers on net. But, it gave me the same error. Below's the error that i got.

ERROR:

Collecting scipy Downloading scipy-1.4.1.tar.gz (24.6 MB) |################################| 24.6 MB 6.6 MB/s Installing build dependencies ... done Getting requirements to build wheel ... done Preparing wheel metadata ... done Building wheels for collected packages: scipy Building wheel for scipy (PEP 517) ... error ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: command: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/ build_wheel /tmp/tmpkklsvv4v cwd: /tmp/pip-install-9v4nmof7/scipy Complete output (50 lines): /usr/bin/python3: No module named pip Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/setuptools/installer.py", line 128, in fetch_build_egg subprocess.check_call(cmd) File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 271, in check_call raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd) subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/usr/bin/python3', '-m', 'pip', '--disable-pip-version-check', 'wheel', '--no-deps', '-w', '/tmp/tmpp7fvgp36', '--quiet', 'numpy>=1.13.3']' returned non-zero exit status 1 During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/", line 257, in <module> main() File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/", line 240, in main json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs']) File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/", line 182, in build_wheel metadata_directory) File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 213, in build_wheel wheel_directory, config_settings) File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 198, in _build_with_temp_dir self.run_setup() File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 250, in run_setup self).run_setup(setup_script=setup_script) File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 143, in run_setup exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'), locals()) File "setup.py", line 540, in <module> setup_package() File "setup.py", line 536, in setup_package setup(**metadata) File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/numpy/distutils/core.py", line 126, in setup dist = setup(**new_attr) File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/numpy/distutils/core.py", line 169, in setup return old_setup(**new_attr) File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 143, in setup _install_setup_requires(attrs) File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 138, in _install_setup_requires dist.fetch_build_eggs(dist.setup_requires) File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 698, in fetch_build_eggs replace_conflicting=True, File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 783, in resolve replace_conflicting=replace_conflicting File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1066, in best_match return self.obtain(req, installer) File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1078, in obtain return installer(requirement) File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 754, in fetch_build_egg return fetch_build_egg(self, req) File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/setuptools/installer.py", line 130, in fetch_build_egg raise DistutilsError(str(e)) distutils.errors.DistutilsError: Command '['/usr/bin/python3', '-m', 'pip', '--disable-pip-version-check', 'wheel', '--no-deps', '-w', '/tmp/tmpp7fvgp36', '--quiet', 'numpy>=1.13.3']' returned non-zero exit status 1 ---------------------------------------- ERROR: Failed building wheel for scipy Failed to build scipy ERROR: Could not build wheels for scipy which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly 

29 Answers

I had the same issue with opencv-python. What worked for me was updating pip as:

pip3 install --upgrade pip 

Note: I am using docker on Linux.

I had the same issue. I resolved this issue after run below command

pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel 

My problem was not with scipy, but with xmlsec. The error message was almost the same:

ERROR: Could not build wheels for xmlsec which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly 

I needed this library, because it was dependency for python3-saml. From the documentation I read that they first install these packages:

sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxmlsec1-dev 

After doing this the installation of python3-saml worked for me.

pip3 -V pip 20.2.3 python -V Python 3.8.0b3 

Probably the answer for other libraries is different, but they all need some package in order to be build, and you should find what is this package for you.

This error also comes for numpy and if you are using the new M1 chip, I am afraid you have to install packages like numpy differently. Check this out.

directly do

pip install p5py pip install PEP517 

this will do the work.

I faced the same problem. Seems that pip uses the pkg-config - if this is missing from your host OS it will run into this error. I resolved by:

sudo apt-get install -y pkg-config 

Then re-run pip

I had this issue trying to install the tidyms package (which depends on scipy <= 1.4.1).

In my case, using python 3.8 instead of python 3.9 "solved" the issue (at least was able to install).

Had similar issues. I had to install some OS and after that, I was able to install missing scikit packages (scikit-sparse in my case)

sudo apt-get install libsuitesparse-dev 

In my case I was installing from a requirements.txt file with the command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

And was getting this error. I solved it installing the package individually (pip install scipy) and replacing the version of Scipy I had in requirements.txt with the one that worked.

If using Windows OS, verify under Start > Settings > Update & Security > Windows Security > Virus & threat protection > Protection History if Windows is identifying the file for installing PyInstaller with Pip as potential malware and thus blocking it. Worked for me.

ERROR: Failed building wheel for h5py Failed to build h5py ERROR: Could not build wheels for h5py which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly 

I had a similar issue while installing Keras, resolved above issue using below steps:

1. conda install h5py

2. pip install keras

Try to install an order version. I had the same problem using python 3.10. I just downgrade it to python 3.9.7 and worked fine

Personally I get rid of this error by changing the #!/usr/bin/env python3.9 to #!/usr/bin/env python3 in the file located in ~/.poetry/bin/poetry and running pip3 install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel apparently python3.9 got some difficulties with poetry.

for the latest M1 type of mac , before creating a virtualenv do switch zsh to x86 type

Step 1:

arch -x86_64 zsh uname -m 

The output will be x86_64 which was arm64 earlier.

Step 2:

brew install openblas export OPENBLAS=$(brew --prefix openblas) export CFLAGS="-falign-functions=8 ${CFLAGS}" pip install Cython pybind11 pythran pip install --no-use-pep517 scipy 

(no need after step 1 : --no-use-pep517 )

after that everything is normal

I had the same issue with Django Rest Framework on Docker (running on M1 Mac), and what worked for me was adding

RUN pip install --upgrade pip

just before I install all the project dependencies.

In my case, I just used a specific python version i.e 3.8 for my base image instead of latest

Before: FROM python:3

After: FROM python:3.8

Issue Resolved for me

I had the same issue and solved it by installing the module using conda. In my case conda install -c conda-forge statsmodels worked without error.

This error ocurred for me while trying to pip3 install aws-sam-cli awscli on macOS 11.5.2 (M1 Chip).

Adding the follow two lines worked for me

dnf install -y python3-devel dnf group install -y "Development Tools" 

Full Dockerfile

FROM centos:8 RUN dnf upgrade -y && \ dnf module -y install nodejs:14 && \ dnf install -y python3 python3-devel git-all && \ dnf group install -y "Development Tools" && \ pip3 install --upgrade pip setuptools && \ pip3 install aws-sam-cli awscli 

Try:

apt-get install build-essential python-dev python-pip 

Then:

pip install couchbase 

I ran into the same issue, albeit on an Apple M1 Macbook Pro. The solution in this case was to use Miniforge instead of Anaconda, because the latter doesn't support the arm64 architecture, yet.

The problem I was facing was that I upgraded to the next python version as soon as it was released.

Advice: wait for atleast 1-2 months before upgrading.

The different modules and libararies on the web aren't updated as soon as python update is released and hence they wont be compatible.

Simply downrade your python version to the version just before current one and you will be good to go.

No matter what you install or what you do you wont be able to install the module unless the devs update it.

I started getting this error after upgrading macOS to the latest version.

• I had to re-install Xcode tools by running xcode-select --install first.

• Close and re-open terminal window

And then, was able to install pandas without any issues.

My issue was with mpi4py. My pip install generated this error, but installing the package through the Anaconda GUI did the trick.

Try

pip install --pre --extra-index scikit-learn 

for Python version 3.10 or greater.

i am using windows x64 based processor. still i havent found solution on this. i tried all above but not worked on me.

but yea after trying hundreds of times i found solution. i downgrade the python version from 3.10.0 to 3.8.10 and it is fine now

I faced similiar problem while installing pycocotools. This answer is for anyone who tried to install pycocotools but faced the similar type of problem while installing.

Try using this instead:

pip install pycocotools-windows 

If you are using conda environment, use this as well:

conda install cython 

If you are using Mac, it could be because of the Xcode license agreement.
Try below in a terminal.

sudo xcodebuild -license

I was struggling to install pandas with Jupyter (Ubuntu) using the command pip install pandas:

Failed to build pandas ERROR: Could not build wheels for pandas which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly

Below was the solution for me:

pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel 

then

pip install pandas -i 

Simply installing the dependent failing package (in your case scipy) separately will fix the issue.

python3 -m pip install scipy 

followed by pip installing the package you were trying in the first place.