Failed building wheel for spacy

Question

I\'m trying to install spacy by running pip install spacy for python version 3.6.1 but continuously i\'m getting errors like below,how to get r

Answer 1

If you are on Ubuntu, just do this

sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev git

Now install spacy by

pip install -U spacy

Answer 2

for me, pip install --no-cache-dir spacy worked

Answer 3

Download and install from the Gihub source. Here is the link: https://github.com/explosion/spaCy

Use these commands:

python -m pip install -U pip venv              # update pip & virtualenv
git clone https://github.com/explosion/spaCy   # clone spaCy
cd spaCy                                       # navigate into directory

venv .env                                      # create environment in .env
source .env/bin/activate                       # activate virtual environment
export PYTHONPATH=`pwd`                        # set Python path to spaCy directory
pip install -r requirements.txt                # install all requirements
python setup.py build_ext --inplace            # compile spaCy

Feel free to use only last two commands if not using virtual environment. Follow the official Documentation here

Answer 4

Spacy requires 64-bit python.

Uninstall 32-bit. Install 64-bit python.

Try spacy installation again.