installation error: Could not build wheels for spacy, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

[Wes-Wwang]

Hi, I ran into an error when I tried to install Texthero. I already all packages needed such as spacy, gensim, etc. But when installation processed to building wheel for gensim, error showed up:

Failed to build gensim spacy
ERROR: Could not build wheels for spacy, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

I'm wondering if you can help point out in which direction I should be looking at to fix this. Is it pip or the spacy/ gensim is not pyproject.toml-based?

Thanks.

[cloudyss]

I found this page on python wheels useful.

I think the solution may be different between different OS/pip versions. What worked for me on ubuntu was the command python3 -m pip install --only-binary :all: --no-cache texthero, because like you I was getting wheels error for dependencies.

Not sure if it helped but I also had to add ~/.local/bin to my $PATH as pip was installing here but I was getting an error this directory wasn't in my $PATH.

Other solutions I've seen include:

• updating pip
• using a virtual machine

[srikresna]

I also get this error when trying to install texthero in Google Colab.