[Question] An error occurs while installing autosklearn

Author: yevIbrahimovCreated Sep 11, 2023Updated Aug 14, 2025

I try to install auto-sklearn to google colab using command !pip3 install auto-sklearn but I receive such log

Collecting auto-sklearn Downloading auto-sklearn-0.15.0.tar.gz (6.5 MB) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 6.5/6.5 MB 42.1 MB/s eta 0:00:00 Installing build dependencies ... done Getting requirements to build wheel ... done Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from auto-sklearn) (67.7.2) Requirement already satisfied: typing-extensions in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from auto-sklearn) (4.5.0) Requirement already satisfied: distro in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from auto-sklearn) (1.7.0) Requirement already satisfied: numpy>=1.9.0 in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from auto-sklearn) (1.23.5) Requirement already satisfied: scipy>=1.7.0 in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from auto-sklearn) (1.10.1) Requirement already satisfied: joblib in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from auto-sklearn) (1.3.2) Collecting scikit-learn<0.25.0,>=0.24.0 (from auto-sklearn) Downloading scikit-learn-0.24.2.tar.gz (7.5 MB) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 7.5/7.5 MB 60.8 MB/s eta 0:00:00 Installing build dependencies ... done Getting requirements to build wheel ... done error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully. │ exit code: 1 ╰─> See above for output.

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip. Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... error error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata. ╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip. hint: See above for details.

It leads to error when I try to use autosklearn module import autosklearn.classification ModuleNotFoundError Traceback (most recent call last) in <cell line: 2>() 1 import numpy as np ----> 2 import autosklearn.classification 3 from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split 4 from sklearn.linear_model import Perceptron 5 from sklearn.neural_network import MLPClassifier

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'autosklearn'