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Why is pip failing to install tbb

I am trying to install umap-learn on my machine. But, I run into problems when installing tbb, which is a required package.

Installing from PyPI with pip

When I do,

pip install tbb

I get the error:

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tbb (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for tbb

Downloading wheel from PyPI and installing

I downloaded the wheel from PyPI, and then tried installing directly with:

pip install tbb-2019.0-py2.py3-none-macosx_10_12_intel.macosx_10_12_x86_64.whl

I get the error:

ERROR: tbb-2019.0-py2.py3-none-macosx_10_12_intel.macosx_10_12_x86_64.whl is not 
a supported wheel on this platform.

My machine is a Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11.6).

Help

  1. Does this mean that tbb is not supported for my OS?
  2. Is there some other package I am missing that is causing the installation to fail?
  3. Has anyone else run into this problem?
Solution

  • Commenting out the tbb requirement in the requirement.txt file allows UMAP to be installed without tbb. UMAP can run without tbb, for the most part.