Installation of ArcticDB library is not working on Ubuntu (EC2)

Question

I'm trying to install this library on an EC2 instance that runs Ubuntu 22.04 and I'm getting this error:

$ pip install arcticdb
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement arcticdb (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for arcticdb

I've seen this is expected to happen on MacOS but it should work on Ubuntu.

Answer 1

In general there could be a few different reasons for this error.

In particular on EC2 there are two major processor architectures AMD/Intel and AWS Graviton (ARM). ArcticDB (at least version 4.3.1 and below) has pip builds for AMD/Intel architectures but not AWS Graviton.