ERROR: Could not build wheels for scipy which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly

Question

I\'m trying to install scipy via pip on my 64 bit ARMV8 board. I have already installed openblas which is required by scipy. So, no issues with that. When i gave pip3

Answer 1

I had the same issue with opencv-python. What worked for me was updating pip as:

pip3 install --upgrade pip

Note: I am using docker on Linux.

Answer 2

My problem was not with scipy, but with xmlsec. The error message was almost the same:

ERROR: Could not build wheels for xmlsec which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly

I needed this library, because it was dependency for python3-saml. From the documentation I read that they first install these packages:

sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxmlsec1-dev

After doing this the installation of python3-saml worked for me.

pip3 -V
pip 20.2.3

python -V
Python 3.8.0b3

Probably the answer for other libraries is different, but they all need some package in order to be build, and you should find what is this package for you.

Answer 3

I had the same issue. I resolved this issue after run below command

pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel