Install xgboost under python with 32-bit msys failing

Question

Trying to install xgboost is failing..? The version is Anaconda 2.1.0 (64-bit) on Windows & enterprise. How do I proceed? I have been using R it seems its quite easy to install new package in R from RStudio, but not so in spyder as I need to go to a command-window to do it and then in this case it fails..

import sys

print (sys.version) 
2.7.8 |Anaconda 2.1.0 (64-bit)| (default, Jul  2 2014, 15:12:11) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)]

C:\anaconda\Lib\site-packages>pip install -U xgboost
Downloading/unpacking xgboost
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement xgboost (from versions: 0.4a12, 0.4a13)
Cleaning up...
No distributions matching the version for xgboost
Storing debug log for failure in C:\Users\c_kazum\pip\pip.log


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C:\Users\c_kazum\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\Scripts\pip-script.py run on 08/27/15 12:52:30
Downloading/unpacking xgboost
  Getting page https://pypi.python.org/simple/xgboost/
  URLs to search for versions for xgboost:
  * https://pypi.python.org/simple/xgboost/
  Analyzing links from page https://pypi.python.org/simple/xgboost/
    Found link https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/x/xgboost/xgboost-0.4a12.tar.gz#md5=4d768e034a28590497bb79279f036946 (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/xgboost/), version: 0.4a12
    Found link https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/x/xgboost/xgboost-0.4a13.tar.gz#md5=5f53d51e4305c679192b3cabda2b0dbe (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/xgboost/), version: 0.4a13
  Ignoring link https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/x/xgboost/xgboost-0.4a12.tar.gz#md5=4d768e034a28590497bb79279f036946 (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/xgboost/), version 0.4a12 is a pre-release (use --pre to allow).
  Ignoring link https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/x/xgboost/xgboost-0.4a13.tar.gz#md5=5f53d51e4305c679192b3cabda2b0dbe (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/xgboost/), version 0.4a13 is a pre-release (use --pre to allow).
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement xgboost (from versions: 0.4a12, 0.4a13)
Cleaning up...
  Removing temporary dir c:\users\c_kazum\appdata\local\temp\pip_build_c_kazum...
No distributions matching the version for xgboost
Exception information:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\c_kazum\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pip\basecommand.py", line 122, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "C:\Users\c_kazum\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pip\commands\install.py", line 278, in run
    requirement_set.prepare_files(finder, force_root_egg_info=self.bundle, bundle=self.bundle)
  File "C:\Users\c_kazum\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pip\req.py", line 1177, in prepare_files
    url = finder.find_requirement(req_to_install, upgrade=self.upgrade)
  File "C:\Users\c_kazum\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pip\index.py", line 322, in find_requirement
    raise DistributionNotFound('No distributions matching the version for %s' % req)
DistributionNotFound: No distributions matching the version for xgboost

Answer 1

I'm a bit late to answer but I would still go ahead and answer it for anyone who still has an issue with the installation. I followed the steps listed in https://www.kaggle.com/c/otto-group-product-classification-challenge/forums/t/13043/run-xgboost-from-windows-and-python Their is a concise version of these steps at https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/tree/master/windows. I will summarize what I did below.

1) Download Visual Basic Studio. You can download the community edition at visual studio website. There is a "free visual studio button on the upper right corner"

2) Copy all content from the git hub repository of xgboost/tree/master/windows and Open Visual studio existing project on Visual studio

3) There are a couple of drop down menus you need to select ( "Release" and "X64" and then select build --> build all from the upper menu. It should look something like the attached screenshot.

4) if you see the message ========== Build: 3 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========, it is all good

5) Browse to python-packages folder where the setup file for XGB resides and run the install command 'python setup.py install'.

Hope this helps.