#133·blackbird

Failing During Installation of Dependencies

Author: JosephCogginsCreated Jun 27, 2025Updated Jul 13, 2025
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Describe the bug After cloning the repository and attempting to install its dependencies, I get an error.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Clone the repository.
  2. Navigate inside of the directory.
  3. Run pip install -r requirements.txt to install dependencies.
  4. See error.

Expected behavior Installation of all dependencies the repository requires to function.

Logs:

Collecting aiohappyeyeballs==2.4.4 (from -r requirements.txt (line 1))
  Downloading aiohappyeyeballs-2.4.4-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (6.1 kB)
Collecting aiohttp==3.10.11 (from -r requirements.txt (line 2))
  Downloading aiohttp-3.10.11-cp313-cp313-win_amd64.whl.metadata (8.0 kB)
Collecting aiosignal==1.3.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 3))
  Downloading aiosignal-1.3.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.0 kB)
Collecting annotated-types==0.7.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 4))
  Downloading annotated_types-0.7.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (15 kB)
Collecting async-timeout==5.0.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 5))
  Downloading async_timeout-5.0.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.1 kB)
Collecting attrs==25.3.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 6))
  Downloading attrs-25.3.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (10 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: beautifulsoup4==4.13.4 in c:\\\users\owner\appdata\local\programs\python\python313\lib\site-packages (from -r requirements.txt (line 7)) (4.13.4)
Collecting blis==0.7.11 (from -r requirements.txt (line 8))
  Downloading blis-0.7.11.tar.gz (2.9 MB)
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  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Collecting catalogue==2.0.10 (from -r requirements.txt (line 9))
  Downloading catalogue-2.0.10-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (14 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: certifi==2025.4.26 in c:\\\users\owner\appdata\local\programs\python\python313\lib\site-packages (from -r requirements.txt (line 10)) (2025.4.26)
Collecting chardet==5.2.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 11))
  Downloading chardet-5.2.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (3.4 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: charset-normalizer==3.4.2 in c:\\\users\owner\appdata\local\programs\python\python313\lib\site-packages (from -r requirements.txt (line 12)) (3.4.2)
Collecting click==8.1.8 (from -r requirements.txt (line 13))
  Downloading click-8.1.8-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (2.3 kB)
Collecting cloudpathlib==0.16.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 14))
  Downloading cloudpathlib-0.16.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (14 kB)
Collecting confection==0.1.5 (from -r requirements.txt (line 15))
  Downloading confection-0.1.5-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (19 kB)
Collecting cymem==2.0.11 (from -r requirements.txt (line 16))
  Downloading cymem-2.0.11-cp313-cp313-win_amd64.whl.metadata (8.8 kB)
Collecting frozenlist==1.5.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 17))
  Downloading frozenlist-1.5.0-cp313-cp313-win_amd64.whl.metadata (14 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: idna==3.10 in c:\\\users\owner\appdata\local\programs\python\python313\lib\site-packages (from -r requirements.txt (line 18)) (3.10)
Collecting jinja2==3.1.6 (from -r requirements.txt (line 19))
  Downloading jinja2-3.1.6-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (2.9 kB)
Collecting langcodes==3.4.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 20))
  Downloading langcodes-3.4.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (29 kB)
Collecting language-data==1.3.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 21))
  Downloading language_data-1.3.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.3 kB)
Collecting marisa-trie==1.2.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 22))
  Downloading marisa_trie-1.2.1-cp313-cp313-win_amd64.whl.metadata (9.3 kB)
Collecting markdown-it-py==3.0.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 23))
  Downloading markdown_it_py-3.0.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (6.9 kB)
Collecting MarkupSafe==2.1.5 (from -r requirements.txt (line 24))
  Downloading MarkupSafe-2.1.5.tar.gz (19 kB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Collecting mdurl==0.1.2 (from -r requirements.txt (line 25))
  Downloading mdurl-0.1.2-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (1.6 kB)
Collecting multidict==6.1.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 26))
  Downloading multidict-6.1.0-cp313-cp313-win_amd64.whl.metadata (5.1 kB)
Collecting murmurhash==1.0.13 (from -r requirements.txt (line 27))
  Downloading murmurhash-1.0.13-cp313-cp313-win_amd64.whl.metadata (2.2 kB)
Collecting numpy==1.24.4 (from -r requirements.txt (line 28))
  Downloading numpy-1.24.4.tar.gz (10.9 MB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 10.9/10.9 MB 1.8 MB/s eta 0:00:00
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
ERROR: Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\cli\base_command.py", line 105, in _run_wrapper
    status = _inner_run()
  File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\cli\base_command.py", line 96, in _inner_run
    return self.run(options, args)
           ~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\cli\req_command.py", line 68, in wrapper
    return func(self, options, args)
  File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\commands\install.py", line 387, in run
    requirement_set = resolver.resolve(
        reqs, check_supported_wheels=not options.target_dir
    )
  File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\resolution\resolvelib\resolver.py", line 96, in resolve
    result = self._result = resolver.resolve(
                            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
        collected.requirements, max_rounds=limit_how_complex_resolution_can_be
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    )
    ^
  File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\resolvelib\resolvers\resolution.py", line 515, in resolve
    state = resolution.resolve(requirements, max_rounds=max_rounds)
  File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\resolvelib\resolvers\resolution.py", line 388, in resolve
    self._add_to_criteria(self.state.criteria, r, parent=None)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\resolvelib\resolvers\resolution.py", line 141, in _add_to_criteria
    if not criterion.candidates:
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\resolvelib\structs.py", line 194, in __bool__
    return bool(self._sequence)
  File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\resolution\resolvelib\found_candidates.py", line 163, in __bool__
    self._bool = any(self)
                 ~~~^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\resolution\resolvelib\found_candidates.py", line 147, in <genexpr>
    return (c for c in iterator if id(c) not in self._incompatible_ids)
                       ^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\resolution\resolvelib\found_candidates.py", line 37, in _iter_built
    candidate = func()
  File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\resolution\resolvelib\factory.py", line 187, in _make_candidate_from_link
    base: Optional[BaseCandidate] = self._make_base_candidate_from_link(
                                    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
        link, template, name, version
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    )
    ^
  File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\resolution\resolvelib\factory.py", line 233, in _make_base_candidate_from_link
    self._link_candidate_cache[link] = LinkCandidate(
                                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
        link,
        ^^^^^
    ...<3 lines>...
        version=version,
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    )
    ^
  File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\resolution\resolvelib\candidates.py", line 306, in __init__
    super().__init__(
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
        link=link,
        ^^^^^^^^^^
    ...<4 lines>...
        version=version,
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    )
    ^
  File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\resolution\resolvelib\candidates.py", line 159, in __init__
    self.dist = self._prepare()
                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\resolution\resolvelib\candidates.py", line 236, in _prepare
    dist = self._prepare_distribution()
  File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\resolution\resolvelib\candidates.py", line 317, in _prepare_distribution
    return preparer.prepare_linked_requirement(self._ireq, parallel_builds=True)
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\operations\prepare.py", line 532, in prepare_linked_requirement
    return self._prepare_linked_requirement(req, parallel_builds)
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\operations\prepare.py", line 647, in _prepare_linked_requirement
    dist = _get_prepared_distribution(
        req,
    ...<3 lines>...
        self.check_build_deps,
    )
  File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\operations\prepare.py", line 71, in _get_prepared_distribution
    abstract_dist.prepare_distribution_metadata(
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
        finder, build_isolation, check_build_deps
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    )
    ^
  File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\distributions\sdist.py", line 56, in prepare_distribution_metadata
    self._install_build_reqs(finder)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\distributions\sdist.py", line 126, in _install_build_reqs
    build_reqs = self._get_build_requires_wheel()
  File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\distributions\sdist.py", line 103, in _get_build_requires_wheel
    return backend.get_requires_for_build_wheel()
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\\\utils\misc.py", line 702, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
    return super().get_requires_for_build_wheel(config_settings=cs)
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_impl.py", line 196, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
    return self._call_hook(
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
        "get_requires_for_build_wheel", {"config_settings": config_settings}
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    )
    ^
  File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_impl.py", line 402, in _call_hook
    raise BackendUnavailable(
    ...<4 lines>...
    )
pip._vendor.pyproject_hooks._impl.BackendUnavailable: Cannot import 'setuptools.build_meta'

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