Error: subprocess-exited-with -error. --python

Question

Error: subprocess-exited-with -error, python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully. I know that there are some similar questions. But the error still exist after trying those solution. I want to install a model called midi-ddsp and it shows an error.

Requirement already satisfied: music21 in ./Library/Python/3.8/lib/python/site-packages (from midi-ddsp) (7.3.3)
Requirement already satisfied: pandas in ./Library/Python/3.8/lib/python/site-packages (from midi-ddsp) (1.3.3)
Requirement already satisfied: pretty-midi in ./Library/Python/3.8/lib/python/site-packages (from midi-ddsp) (0.2.9)
Requirement already satisfied: mir-eval in ./Library/Python/3.8/lib/python/site-packages (from ddsp==3.2.0->midi-ddsp) (0.7)
Requirement already satisfied: tensorflow-addons in ./Library/Python/3.8/lib/python/site-packages (from ddsp==3.2.0->midi-ddsp) (0.17.1)
Requirement already satisfied: cloudml-hypertune in ./Library/Python/3.8/lib/python/site-packages (from ddsp==3.2.0->midi-ddsp) (0.1.0.dev6)
Collecting crepe>=0.0.11
  Using cached crepe-0.0.12.tar.gz (15 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1

Because the codes are too long, if I need to paste more, please tell me!

I've tried to upgrade pip, pip3 install midi-ddsp --use-deprecated=legacy-resolver, pip3 install --upgrade setuptools, easy_install -U setuptools and so on. But neither of them could work. Hope someone could help me, thanks!

Answer 1

I got this exact same error when trying to run:

pip install dotenv

After a lot of hunting around, I realised I got the package name wrong. The correct command was:

pip install python-dotenv

Maybe try googling "pip your-package-name" to find the PyPi page for your package and double check you are using the correct name? It is annoying that the pip error message was not more descriptive.