I'm getting an errror while installing faker, what should I do?

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I'm getting an error while installing Faker in python, what should I do?

error:

six-1.12.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
ERROR: matplotlib 1.3.1 requires nose, which is not installed.
ERROR: matplotlib 1.3.1 requires tornado, which is not installed.
Installing collected packages: six, python-dateutil, Faker
  Found existing installation: six 1.4.1
ERROR: Cannot uninstall 'six'. It is a distutils installed project and thus we cannot accurately determine which files belong to it which would lead to only a partial uninstall.

pip install Faker --ignore-installed six --user ? or no --user this may work — smitty_werbenjagermanjensen, Jun 04 '19 at 17:37

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 04 '19 at 17:58

The clue is in here

It is a distutils installed project

You probably have already installed this package use something like os package manager (something like apt). Thus, you should use that to remove it.

On the particular topic. You might want to use virtualenv to manage this kind of stuff.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 04 '19 at 19:54

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First uninstall six using sudo apt-get remove six and then install Faker again

answered Jun 04 '19 at 19:54

Prachiti Prakash Prabhu

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 17 '19 at 05:57

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You can ignore the installed projects by using --ignore-installed

For example, try pip install Faker --ignore-installed

answered Oct 17 '19 at 05:57

Naveen Raju

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I'm getting an errror while installing faker, what should I do?

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