Installation error in Raspbian OS

[raul-parada]

Hi all,

I would like to install river on Raspberry PI 3B+ using which has a Raspbian OS. The version is:

rparada@raspberrypi:~/Desktop/river-0.18.0 $ uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 6.1.21-v7+ #1642 SMP Mon Apr  3 17:20:52 BST 2023 armv7l GNU/Linux

I could install many python packages (on Python 3.9.2):

distro==1.5.0
numpy==1.25.2
pandas==2.0.3
pip==23.2.1
psutil==5.8.0
python-apt==2.2.1
python-dateutil==2.8.2
python-geohash==0.8.5
scipy==1.11.1
setuptools==68.0.0 
wheel==0.41.0

About Linux libraries I do have installed:

gfortran==4:10.2.1-1+rpi1
cargo==1.71.1
cpp==4:10.2.1-1+rpi1
gcc==4:10.2.1-1+rpi1
gfortran-10== 10.2.1-3
cmake==3.18.4-2+rpt1+rpi1+deb11u1
libopenblas-base==0.3.13+ds-3+rpi1
libatlas3-base==3.10.3-10+rpi1 
rustc==1.71.1
rustup==1.26.0 

I've used the command pip install river --upgrade, however, I get this error:

ERROR: Failed building wheel for river
Failed to build river
ERROR: Could not build wheels for river which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly

Do I missing a library? Or it is because the type of hw architecture?

[MaxHalford]

Hey there. Really cool that you're attempting to install River on a PI. I've never done it myself though.

Have you tried pip install river --no-binary :all:?

[raul-parada]

After almost two hours running, I got this error:

compilation terminated.
     error: command '/usr/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc' failed with exit code 1
     [end of output]
 
 note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
 ERROR: Failed building wheel for river
Failed to build river
ERROR: Could not build wheels for river, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

I have the wheel version 0.41.0. I attach a log (not everything,
output_binaries.txt
since it was truncated). Any chance to find a solution?

[MaxHalford]

Honestly, don't count it. I don't have a Raspberry available, so I won't be able to debug. @raphaelsty has one, and we will take a look in October when we see each other. I encourage to dig into this yourself, I'm sure you're learning valuable findings along the way. Keep us posted :)

[sarim-zafar]

I faced a similar issue when I was building a docker file for arm64 architecture. I faced the same error as stated in the first comment. So I followed the steps but it didn't fix anything. But when I delved further in the logs I found that there was a missing rust compiler, once I added that it began saying that cargo is missing. Following is an excerpt from the end of the log file after adding rustc:

copying river/metrics/efficient_rollingrocauc/efficient_rollingrocauc.pyx -> build/lib.linux-aarch64-cpython-39/river/metrics/efficient_rollingrocauc
warning: build_py: byte-compiling is disabled, skipping.
running build_ext
running build_rust
error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'cargo'
[end of output]
note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
ERROR: Failed building wheel for river
Building wheel for sentence-transformers (pyproject.toml): started
Building wheel for sentence-transformers (pyproject.toml): finished with status 'done'
Created wheel for sentence-transformers: filename=sentence_transformers-2.2.2-py3-none-any.whl size=125923 sha256=1879696e1d8961d8d1d9aebbda7f5c793f89452656561f778ca75f0538bc93c6
Stored in directory: /tmp/pip-ephem-wheel-cache-en9uen5u/wheels/71/67/06/162a3760c40d74dd40bc855d527008d26341c2b0ecf3e8e11f
Successfully built sentence-transformers
ERROR: Could not build wheels for river, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects
Failed to build river

I tried installing rust from scratch and adding cargo to the path as well. But it reverts back to saying rust compiler not found. At this point I've parked this but maybe someone else can take this up.

Just in case someone is interested this was the code used to build rust from scratch:

#Install system dependencies
# Install Rust and Cargo
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
    build-essential \
    curl \
    && curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y \
    && export PATH="$HOME/.cargo/bin:$PATH" \
    && rustup install stable \
    && rustup default stable \
    && apt-get clean \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

[MaxHalford]

Thanks for sharing @sarim-zafar. I think the clean solution is for us to build the appropriate dist wheels. That way you don't have to bother with Rust etc.

[raphaelsty]

Hi @raul-parada,

You should be able to download river 0.19.0 from your Raspberry using the following wheels and Python 3.11.

You may need to specify an extra-index-url configuration for pip so it know where to search for the wheels, here is a tutorial.

Can you let us know if that works for you?