Python: Failed to build sentencepiece

Question

I am installing the python package "allennlp==0.9.0" on the Debian system, but it fails and gives the following error:

  error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'

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  Failed building wheel for sentencepiece

  Running setup.py clean for sentencepiece

Failed to build sentencepiece

How can I fix this error? 

Answer 1

Try one of the following approaches and it should fix the error:

1. Upgrade pip version and then install the package "allennlp".

sudo pip3 install --user --upgrade pip

2. If upgrading pip does not solve the problem, install the package "sentencepiece".

sudo pip3 install sentencepiece