Unable to install MetaTrader5

Question

I could not install MetaTrader5 by:

pip install MetaTrader5

I got the following error:

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement MetaTrader5 (from versions: none) ERROR: No matching distribution found for MetaTrader5

Knowing that I am on MAC laptop and I have Python 3.7.6

Thanks in advance to provide me the solution

Alright, what do/don't you understand from that error message? — AMC, Apr 10 '20 at 17:13
You can use it via this package: https://pypi.org/project/mt5linux/ — SdSaati, Nov 20 '22 at 21:41

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 10 '20 at 16:12

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MetaTrader5 provides a lot of binary wheels but only for w32 and w64. No Linux, no MacOS and no source code. It seems the software is Windows-only.

Their site recommends to use one of the w32/w64 emulators on MacOS.

answered Apr 10 '20 at 16:12

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Their site also talks about running terminal under Wine - unfortunately MetaTrader5 Python Package will not work under Linux... – Andy Thompson Jul 09 '21 at 17:55
@AndyThompson The same as for MacOS — use an emulator. Wine, VirtualBox, qemu, Docker… – phd Jul 10 '21 at 11:34
The pythom package from metatrader will not import in wine hence my original comment – Andy Thompson Aug 29 '21 at 11:22
It's working just fine in Ubuntu 22.04. – Janib Soomro Feb 05 '23 at 19:29
@JanibSoomro Not Ubuntu — it's Wine emulator which I [mentioned above](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61143812/unable-to-install-metatrader5/61144210#comment120757883_61144210). – phd Feb 05 '23 at 19:50
Yes, I meant Wine in Ubuntu 22.04. – Janib Soomro Feb 06 '23 at 06:25

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 27 '22 at 19:35

Folks at MQT5 haven't compiled any version for Linux so far and the only method available is to Installed Python3.x for Windows inside Wine64 and then continue further pip installation accordingly.

I'm on Ubuntu 22.04 and successfully installed MetaTrader5, here are the steps.

sudo apt update -y
sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install wine64
cd ~/Desktop
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.8.0/python-3.8.0-amd64.exe --no-check-certificate
wget https://download.mql5.com/cdn/web/metaquotes.software.corp/mt5/mt5setup.exe --no-check-certificate
wine64 uninstaller -> select install and then select mt5setup.exe
wine64 cmd
cd /folder_where_python3.8_setup.exe
python-3.8.0-amd64.exe
c:
cd windows
copy py.exe python.exe
python -m pip install pip --upgrade
exit
wine64 cmd
pip3 --version
pip3 install jupyter
pip3 install MetaTrader5
jupyter notebook

This seems to work, I can access MetaTrader5 repository however jupyter crashes when any ipynb file is loaded. Haven't found any solution for this problem but if you save everything in a .py file and execute it normally, it works fine.

I can confirm this works as of 2023. Please note that you must use python >= 3.8, up to python 3.10 (as of 2023, jan) since the MT5 pip package only supports those versions currently. Otherwise you will get the error "No matching distribution found for MetaTrader5" — g-radam, Feb 03 '23 at 07:05

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