Installing spacy

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I am trying to install spacy. I am using python 2 and I saw a post Failed building wheel for spacy as I am having the same issue.

I ran pip install --no-cache-dir spacy but still I am getting

error: command 'C:\\Users\\amuly\\mingw\\bin\\gcc.exe' failed with exit status 1

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thinc 6.10.3 has requirement dill<0.3.0,>=0.2.7, but you'll have dill 0.2.5 which is incompatible.
Command "c:\users\amuly\anaconda2\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='c:\\users\\amuly\\appdata\\local\\temp\\pip-install-aljpyz\\murmurhash\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record c:\users\amuly\appdata\local\temp\pip-record-ijwq0r\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in c:\users\amuly\appdata\local\temp\pip-install-aljpyz\murmurhash\
You are using pip version 10.0.1, however version 18.0 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.

I am sorry but I am new to this and can't find the solution.

Thank you.

Hi Amy, I was able to install this package with the same command. Can you try check if pip is correctly set up and you can install any other package? — H_J, Aug 24 '18 at 03:11
Hi, Yes I have been installing packages before. But I am not sure if I need to upgrade it. I have not upgrade it. Do you think that is the reason? — amy, Aug 24 '18 at 14:10
It seems like and windows gcc error I did a quick search and found below link which can help : https://github.com/develersrl/gccwinbinaries. Additionally, I would suggest to reinstall python dermal for an easy solution. — H_J, Aug 24 '18 at 14:38
@Helly Thanks but I have read that Windows GCC are hard to install and manage. Is there any other solution? I am just trying to have dependency parsing work. If there is any other work around, let me know. — amy, Aug 24 '18 at 22:41

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 28 '18 at 23:05

First off, this (dependencies) is the worst part of Python by far and everyone struggles with this.

I notice that you are using pip, but the command that is erring shows your python interpreter is anaconda. Can you do conda install spacy instead of pip install spacy?

If you aren't using conda environments, you should (or pip and virtualenv, but if you are doing scientific python, conda is a bit cleaner). Environments are ways to keep the dependencies for different projects separate. For example, if you want to create an environment with spacy in it, you'd run

conda create -n my_env_name spacy

Then you'd run

source activate my_env_name

to "enter" the environment.

You can add packages later (they don't have to be installed at environment creation time). Once you are in your env, you'd enter into the command line conda install package_name - but the installation would stay in that environment.

Installing spacy

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