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goldpill
goldpill

Reputation: 119

Installing pyinstaller gives an error message

C:\Windows\system32>pip install pyinstaller
DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 will reach the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 won't be maintained after that date. A future version of pip will drop support for Python 2.7.
Collecting pyinstaller
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/03/32/0e0de593f129bf1d1e77eed562496d154ef4460fd5cecfd78612ef39a0cc/PyInstaller-3.4.tar.gz
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
  Complete output from command c:\python27\python.exe c:\python27\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pep517\_in_process.py get_requires_for_build_wheel c:\users\goldp\appdata\local\temp\tmpz9mkmy:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pep517\_in_process.py", line 207, in <module>
      main()
    File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pep517\_in_process.py", line 197, in main
      json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
    File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pep517\_in_process.py", line 54, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
      return hook(config_settings)
    File "c:\users\user\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-env-oljevt\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 115, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
      return _get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=['wheel'])
    File "c:\users\user\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-env-oljevt\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 101, in _get_build_requires
      _run_setup()
    File "c:\users\user\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-env-oljevt\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 85, in _run_setup
      exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'), locals())
    File "setup.py", line 20, in <module>
      from PyInstaller import __version__ as version, HOMEPATH, PLATFORM
  ImportError: No module named PyInstaller

Command "c:\python27\python.exe c:\python27\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pep517\_in_process.py get_requires_for_build_wheel c:\users\user\appdata\local\temp\tmpz9mkmy" failed with error code 1 in c:\users\user\appdata\local\temp\pip-install-yd3kml\pyinstaller

This is the specific error message I receive. I am not sure why this is? This is from using pip install pyinstaller and all 3 commands advised below.

Upvotes: 10

Views: 34186

Answers (7)

user2959760
user2959760

Reputation: 516

python -m pip install --upgrade pip
pip install pyinstaller==3.6

basically, you just change diff version of pip and pyinstaller, and find out which one can work on your environment.

Upvotes: 0

NikhilKV
NikhilKV

Reputation: 58

Downgrading pip also did not work for me. Installing from conda worked well. Try - 'conda install -c conda-forge pyinstaller'

Upvotes: 1

NADIRSHA
NADIRSHA

Reputation: 155

I have got the same issue and tried a lot of ways got from internet but below worked for me

  1. Open Command Prompt as administrator
  2. Downgrade pip to version 18.1 pip install pip==18.1
  3. Download pyinstaller version 3.4 pip install pyinstaller==3.4
  4. Success, This should work. Verify installation using pyinstaller -v

Upvotes: 2

Yeremia Immanuel Sihombing
Yeremia Immanuel Sihombing

Reputation: 11

Please try:

py -m pip install -U pyinstaller

Upvotes: 1

Er. Amninder Singh Cheema
Er. Amninder Singh Cheema

Reputation: 341

The exact issue:

Getting requirements to build wheel ... error

The answer by Philip Belemezov is working for me. Below is the reproduction of the issue and the working solution in screenshots form for you to understand better.

Issue

Solution

  1. pip install pip==18.1 - Run the command prompt as an Admin and it will install the pip version 18.1 for you as shown below.

pip install 18.1

  1. pip install pyinstaller - Run this command now and it will install the module:pyinstaller as shown below.

command to install the pyinstaller

  1. Last step is to type pyinstaller in your command and if the output is similar then that means you have successfully installed the package:pyinstaller.

pyinstaller installed successfully

Upvotes: 3

VoodooBoot
VoodooBoot

Reputation: 186

This is caused by an issue in pip 19. The only fix at the moment is to downgrade to pip 18.1:

$ pip install pip==18.1

$ pip --version
pip 18.1 from ...\lib\site-packages\pip (python 3.7)

Then you can install pyinstaller 3.4:

$ pip install pyinstaller
Collecting pyinstaller
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/03/32/0e0de593f129bf1d1e77eed562496d154ef4460fd5cecfd78612ef39a0cc/PyInstaller-3.4.tar.gz
[...]
  Installing build dependencies: started
  Installing build dependencies: finished with status 'done'
[...]
Successfully built pyinstaller
Installing collected packages: pyinstaller
Successfully installed pyinstaller-3.4

Upvotes: 8

Anonymous
Anonymous

Reputation: 699

The easies way to install PyInstaller is using pip:

pip install pyinstaller

or upgrade to a newer version:

pip install --upgrade pyinstaller

To install the current development version use:

pip install https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/archive/develop.tar.gz

Upvotes: -2

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